Isabel Gomez is a Newcastle artist who grew up in Sydney. Isabel Graduated from Newcastle Art College Hunter Street Campus TAFE with an Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts in 1999. Isabel completed Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Newcastle University in 2007. In 2023 Isabel was included in the ACB Selects by Amber Creswell Bell. In 2012 and 2011 Isabel’s was selected for the Portia Geach Painting Prize. In 2012 selected into the Paddington Art Prize. In 2011 included in Taronga Artist in residency Program. In 2010 Isabel won The NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize. Isabel has in the past exhibited with Damien Minton Gallery and has recently had shows at the Straitjacket Art Gallery in Newcastle.
Established in 2021, the National Emerging Art Prize was created to provide an annual, highly visible national platform to identify, promote and support the most promising emerging visual and ceramic artists in Australia.