James Isles is a visual artist from Melbourne, Australia.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2025 with a B.A. in studio art. His paintings engage illusion, light, and material. They assimilate these aspects of dimensional space through a reenactment in paint. The shifting forms in his paintings, made of light and colour, proliferate in a space of ambiguity. The sculptural forms made with paint are animated through an instability of parallax and preconceptions. The paintings engage principles of relativity with each fibre of canvas, possessing a dual chromatic identity, and shift in tandem with the viewer. The applied paint in its aerosol form establishes an atomised space, ambiguous in scale. The paintings are not on a surface but on an imagined plane. The forms move in the mind; they are an illusion. An uncertainty of existence within the painted space creates guidance without representation. The paintings conflict with representation. They do not describe, they reenact. Contact via jamesoliverisles@gmail.com.