Isabella Greenwood

Isabella Greenwood is a London-based writer and curator whose work delves into internet culture, mythology, contemporary art, and film. Greenwood has contributed pieces on hauntology, occultism, and paganism for Dazed and Cosmopolitan, while her explorations of post-internet ethnology, internet folklore, and digital mourning have appeared in Vogue and Polyester. Her writing also addresses contemporary cultural fixations, including a feature on the lesbian renaissance for Wonderland, articles on Catholic-core, the aesthetics of embalmment, and diaristic practices for Plaster Magazine.

 

Her art criticism has been published in Metal Magazine, where she has reviewed exhibitions, performance art, and theatre, ranging from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot to Hongxi Li's critique of mass industrialisation in China. Greenwood's film criticism includes a review on sex, surrealism, and absurdity in Yorgos Lanthimos' work, featured in Dazed and Wonderland. Additionally, her research on the phenomenological exclusion of migrants was published in The Journal of Genocide and Political Violence (Vol. 22, 2020).

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Greenwood has held editorial roles with 9vt\5 Publishing House and served as Editor-in-Chief for the political video and photography art marketplace, Uncontaminated. Beyond freelance writing and research, she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief and Curator for Shipton Gallery. This November, she will curate Vigil: Death and the Afterlife at Loods6, Amsterdam, a group exhibition featuring over twenty-seven artists, including Daddy Bears, Silvia Bolla, Leon Scott-Engel, Harry Hugo Little, and Melle Nieling, on the topic of embodied presence within the face of death and decay. She is additionally curating a group show entitled 'God Willing' at Shipton Gallery, London, an exhibition examining theology witihin the internet age.