Isabel Banal (Castellfollit de la Roca, 1963). Visual artist and teacher at La Massana Barcelona School of Art and Design. In her work, she explores the tensions and coexistence between the natural and urban, between the concepts of nature and artifice. She also meditates on the creative act and daily life in work in which white is a constant element, seen as both start and limit, as silence and as revelation.

Throughout her career, Banal has made constant use of natural materials found in the landscape, combining them with elements linked to the world of creativity and everyday objects, often experimenting with changes of scale and miniaturisation.

Her many solo exhibitions include particularly: La maleta [blava] de W.B. (Portbou, 2011); Ascensioni, Galleria Enrico Fornello (Prato, Italy, 2007); Feix petit pel camí creix, Centre de Lectura (Reus, 2004); Allez, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Saint-Cyprien, France, 2004); Rumiant, Espais (Girona, 2003); Sense revelar, Espai Zero1 (Olot, 2002). She has also taken part in many group shows, including Salvat-Papasseit Poetavanguardistacatalà, Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2011); Canòdrom 00:00:00, Canòdrom (Barcelona, 2010); Querformat, Kunstverein Tiergarten - Galerie Nord (Berlin, Germany, 2010) and Frágil, Galeria Estrany-De la Mota (Barcelona, 2007).

Biography written in 2011