As pirated as they come, Bella was born in the twin-island nation known as Trinidad & Tobago, studying integrated sciences and the comprehensive arts. Much like her masterful predecessors, Isabella Persad refuses to make distinctions between such fields, finding equilibrium in being adequately proficient among all.
Isabella Persad is a mixed-media visual artist, an art history academic, as well as a politically incorrect curator. Art History is Bella’s field of expertise, complementing her technical skills with physical media. The artist herself favours illustrative narrative over most, but practices each manifestation of expression she happens upon.
Despite having overcome several lifetime hurdles in such a short span, she grapples with many aspects of her neurodivergence. Creative expression has been the most successful technique of coping with these common battles; and the not-so-common ones, of course.
Her passion for the legacies left to her by the epic poets and beats that came centuries before her is imbued in her visual storytelling. As she attempts to overcome her Leonardo-imposter-syndrome, she finds her art peels back many more layers than she initially set upon discovering. As a Galilean-minded woman, with the soul of Nikola Tesla’s unrealized potential, she hopes to live up to the grandeur of such figures like Vivienne Westwood, Ella Fitzgerald, and of course, Gertrude Stein.
Isabella Persad 