Isabel Brison studied and established herself as a visual artist in Lisbon before moving to Sydney in 2014, where she now works primarily as a web developer. She holds a BFA in Sculpture (University of Lisbon) and an MA in Communication Science/Media Art (New University of Lisbon). The artist has presented her work throughout Portugal and internationally in Spain, UK and Australia. Her solo exhibitions include Relatório Incompleto Sobre os Usos do Impossível (2013) at Next Room, Lisbon and O Futuro da Vida Urbana em Ruínas (2012) at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea Gallery, Lisbon. Recent group exhibitions include Expanded: Fiction and Fabrication in Post-Digital Architectural Photography (2019) at MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, and the online exhibition The Common Soil (2020), with CHAUFFEUR gallery in Sydney. She also talks occasionally on topics such as media art, cyberculture, and, more recently, web architecture and accessibility. Isabel Brison’ work is held in many public collections, including those of the Coca-Cola Fundation, Spain; NOVO Banco, Lisbon, Portugal and PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Isabel Brison attempts to use photomontage as a tool for manipulating space in a projectual sense, not limited to the creation of fictions but focused instead on considering the unofficial use potential of certain places. These works are sometimes accompanied by texts that describe in raw and unadorned terms their process of creation and the intentions underlying it.