NEW ARTIST
Bella David
Hot Water Beach
Painting & Prints
Isabella is a UX/UI designer whose work sits at the intersection of technology and art. Her studies in game design and her love of cinema shape a style of geometric realism, where precise, hard-edged forms are rendered in an unnatural palette of oranges, yellows and browns. Her subject is architecture, with a focus on the scale of buildings and the overbearing, corporate unease that towering consuming structures can produce.
Working in tech keeps her fingers on the pulse on the discomfort that comes with technological advancement with the recent developments in AI reminded her how science fiction has always captured those fears. Metropolis (1927) pictured the anxiety of industrialisation through imposing cityscapes, and Blade Runner imagined a world shaped and dominated by corporate power. Her paintings - inspired by this tradition - uses scale, subject and artificial colour to emulate the structures of technology and the institutions behind them.

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60 Pye Place, Hot Water Beach 3591, New Zealand
021 111 6046



