Isabel Muñoz-Newsome

Isabel Muñoz-Newsome (b. London, UK) is a  British-Chilean painter and performer living and working in London.

Her paintings test the boundary between image and sensation, gesture and imagination. Bodies dissolve into undulating piles of colour, wading between figuration and abstraction.  In her compositions, bodily forms are encountered in various states - from intimate moments of fall and recovery - to somewhere more exuberant and pastoral, a desire-fuelled place. Lost in ecstasy or poised on the cusp of dissolution, forms float in the luminous, dazed aftermath of abandon.

The brushwork is fluid and continuous, inseparable from the performance of the hand, with gesture almost competing with form; often, Muñoz-Newsome’s brush moves sinuously, like muscle contractions, sending flesh rippling in surges of alizarin, ochre and violet, confronting simultaneously the muck of the body and the euphoria of embodiment. Paintings become radiant portals, totemic and charged, as boundaries are breached; at times, an interior light appears to pulse, beckoning the gaze inward and signalling another, secluded place. Here, the act of painting is a form of world-building, as Muñoz-Newsome consumes and inhabits her subjects, leaping beyond form and over the edge.

Isabel Muñoz-Newsome is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Painting, 2025, awarded with the Zsuzi Roboz scholarship) and Wimbledon School of Art (BA in Theatre Design).

Recent exhibitions include: Over the Edge (solo), curated by Kira Streletzki, Berlin (2025), b-sides at calcio, London, curated by Hannah Perry, (2026), One Enters A Room, The Dot Project (2026), In the Company of at Sid Motion Gallery London (2025), Woke Up Feeling Better, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London (2023) which she also curated.

She has also worked extensively in theatre design working on shows in London’s West End, on Broadway NYC and across Europe.

Alongside painting Isabel is also a musician. She is co-creator of the band Pumarosa and currently working on solo projects. The exhibition title, Could You Come to Me, comes from a line from one of her songs.

EXHIBITION: COULD YOU COME TO ME ~ APRIL - MAY 2026

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