Isabella Greenwood
Isabella Greenwood is a London-based writer and curator, with a focus on internet-culture, mythology, folkloric epistemologies, art and film. Greenwood has written on topics ranging from hauntology, semiotics and the intersection between gender identity, paganism and the occult for publications like Dazed and Cosmopolitan. She has also written on post-internet ethnology, and other contemporary fixations, with articles ranging from the lesbian renaissance for Wonderland, sex and surrealism in Yorgos Lanthimos films for Dazed, and digital folklore for Vogue. Her work on the phenomenological exclusion of migrants has been published in academic journal, The Contemporary Review of Political Violence & Genocide.
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Isabella Greenwood explores the role of the diary in art-making and why we care so much about the private musings of the artist
Features Opinion – Words: Isabella Greenwood – 8 min read
Dear diary: why are we so obsessed with recording our private thoughts?
Dear diary: why are we so obsessed with recording our private thoughts?
Words: Isabella Greenwood
There’s a new trend in art and fashion: gleaming, wax-like portraits that reflect light and our relationship with our bodies. Isabella Greenwood explores
Features – Words: Isabella Greenwood – 9 min read
Waxification: artists are fixated on embalming, death and decay
Waxification: artists are fixated on embalming, death and decay
Words: Isabella Greenwood
Isabella Greenwood lifts the veil on the recent renaissance of Catholic aesthetics across music, fashion and art, and finds it's not as innocent as it seems
Opinion – Words: Isabella Greenwood – 7 min read
Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned