Night Terrors

Isvald Klingels is a multi disciplinary artist who works with drawing, painting, textiles and video. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art in London and has worked commercially as an illustrator since 2001.

Clients include: Volvo, Vogue, The Barbican, Sony BMG Records, Sub Pop Records, Absolut Vodka, Channel 4, Cowshed, Elle, Goldfrapp, Oasis, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Topshop, Polydor Records, Random House, Penguin Books, City Arts Magazine, Schon Magazine, Test Magazine, Vice, ID and Dazed and Confused. She has been featured in a range of publications including British Vogue, Dazed and Confused, Creative Review and Computer Arts Projects.

Isvald has lead workshops at the V&A Museum in London, Seattle Art Museum, Selfridges (Future Punk) and London College of Communication. She has given talks about her work at Chelsea College of Art, Middlesex University, University for the Creative Arts Epsom and Northwest College of Art.

Her work appears in many books including “The Purple Book’, ‘Hand To Eye’ (Laurence King Publishing), a book on contemporary illustration, and it’s follow up ‘The Picture Book’ and ‘Sequential Images” by Mark Wigan.

Isvald’s work has been exhibited in London, Seattle, Rome and Los Angeles.

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This group show curated by Isvald Klingels at Vermillion Gallery in Seattle explored the relationship between creativity and terror through abnormal and unnatural behaviour in the night. Nightmares, parasomnia, incubi, succubi, somnambulism, insomnia, hallucinations, malignant spirits, dystopian visions, dark places and nocturnal emissions. Whether through sleep deprivation or a subconscious dream state, violent thoughts and dark urges grip us in the middle of the night and manifest themselves.

These drawings are part of a series inspired by films about children lost on remote islands, such as The Blue Lagoon and Lord of The Flies.