About

Isabella Shields is a writer and curator based in Glasgow (b. 1995) working across the cultural and education sectors.

She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh, and has been teaching English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, and the Scottish Universities International Summer School Since 2021. She also acted as a panellist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize from 2021-2023.

She founded 16 Collective (formerly 16 Nicholson Street), a contemporary art gallery in Glasgow focussing on emerging artists and the creation of dialogues between international and local practitioners, in 2016, and acted as director and curator of the gallery until 2023.

Shields was headhunted to be an arts and culture correspondent for BBC Radio Scotland and has appeared on The Morning Show and other cultural programming since 2021. She is also the creator, producer, and host of the Breaking Up Podcast.

Her radio play A Common Spring was broadcast with an original live score by Adam Benmakhlouf by Radiophrenia in 2020.

Contact

You can contact Isabella about creative, curatorial, or critical writing projects by email here.