About
Isaac Heard
Isaac Heard is a South London based visual artist working chiefly with charcoal and etching.
Biography
Isaac Heard is a visual artist based in South London. He received First Class Honours in Fine Art from Lancaster University and The Glasgow School of Art, and is listed by the Royal Drawing School as a 2024 Drawing Year alumnus and Young Artists tutor.
His practice moves between drawing, printmaking, moving image, animation, and visual storytelling, using traditional media to hold fictional narratives shaped by film, comics, video games, climate change, masks, non-human perspectives, and deep time.
In his 2022 MLitt Degree Show at The Glasgow School of Art, Heard screened Sharon, combining video and animation as the protagonist reflects on memory and her relationship to her mother. In the same period he worked on Bone Flower, an extended hand-drawn chalk animation exploring the relationship between mind and body.
Practice
The work often builds a fictional world around a question rather than illustrating an answer. Charcoal, etching, aquatint, and book forms become ways of staging unstable landscapes, invented rituals, and bodies moving through environmental unease.
The site preserves artwork color where it exists, but keeps the interface quiet: a dark room for the work rather than a decorative frame.