Isabella Mack, born in 1992, is a talented Australian artist currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After earning her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from R.M.I.T., she has committed herself to a dedicated studio practice.

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Isabella has hosted several successful solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and the US. Her most notable show was at the prestigious Graham Geddes Gallery in Melbourne, Victoria. Titled "Light & Dark," the exhibition featured 19 oversized pieces displayed across five rooms, garnering significant press coverage for her emerging career. Her most recent solo exhibition, "SHE," focused on the representation of women in art and media, the female gaze, and the intimacies of womanhood in the 21st Century. Ten percent of the proceeds were donated to Planned Parenthood and The National Immigration Law Center.

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As a mixed media artist, Isabella creates large-scale figurative drawings. Some of her work draws on classical portrayals of the body, inspired by life drawing, while others are abstracted, offering alternative representations. Many of her figurative drawings, especially those in her body print series, treat drawing as a performance. This approach examines the experience of the body, the act of drawing, and their interrelationship, as well as the issue of perception. Her drawings, created on the floor and then displayed on walls, explore the transition from horizontal kinetic energy to vertical objects of contemplation.

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Isabella’s drawings often change appearance based on the viewer's position in the room, encouraging deeper contemplation and a more profound experience of the body and the act of looking. Each piece is highly personal, vulnerable, meditative, self-reflective, and emotionally charged, conveying the inherent sexual and kinetic energy of bodies. Her work explores the figure and female sensuality, researching the theory of touch and its relationship to art and the body. While vision is often seen as the dominant sense, Isabella's blindfolded performance drawings prioritize touch, exploring intimate perception and the tangible presence of the body.

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Isabella explores the distinctions between "pornography" and "erotic art," as well as themes of women's rights, human rights, objectification, sexualization versus sexual freedom, gender norms, and the female gaze. Her drawings illustrate the journey of navigating womanhood within the evolving landscape of modern feminism. Through her work, Isabella examines the parameters of authenticity in a commercialized world, presenting femininity and the female gaze as a rebellion against societal expectations and the constraints of conventional identity.