Isabella Maake is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice explores the infinite spaces between contradictory states: black and white, sound and silence, belonging and otherness, isolation and connection. Through her perspective as a deaf artist, she expands what art can be and who it can reach, creating work that bridges seemingly opposite worlds.

Working across painting, photography, and experimental installation, Maake explores dualism and intersectionality, currently investigating the colour blue as a motif and its historical, psychological, and philosophical meanings, alongside an emerging interest in how art facilitates social connection and collective experience.

Maake holds an MFA in Fine art from Oxford Brookes University. Her work has gained international attention through exhibitions including the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2022) and the UN SDG Action Campaign's digital exhibition Flip The Script in Doha (2023). In 2024, she exhibited alongside William Kentridge in SEED III at the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art in Johannesburg. In 2025 she completed two residencies with SAFFCA, at Entabeni Urban Farm and Witklipfontein Eco Lodge, developing a new body of work exploring human connection and intimacy.

Isabella Maake lives and works in South Africa.