Isabel Coats Vergara (b. London, England) is a London based ceramicist. Her practice explores the fragile encounter between horror and sublimity through the frame of the human body. She works with the body through performance, physical contortion, drawing, and photography, morphing the products of her explorations into clay. Themes of ineffability, decay, and the use of art as a medium that speaks to pure experience beyond language are integral to her work, as informed by her academic research into aesthetic theory and the affirmative limit of language. She seeks to create ceramic sculptures that stand as mediations between the ineffable internal world of pure experience, and the tangible external world. For her, these objects stand as vessels that hold the traces of embodied feeling, continuing to speak long after the touch of the maker has departed. She refers to this creative process as 'void tracing'; an external channeling of tumultuous visceral tides through and into the clay medium. Isabel is currently working towards her MFA at the Royal College of Art.
Education
Royal College of Art, MFA Arts and Humanities (2025-26)
University of Oxford, BA Hons English Language and Literature (2021-24)
