EP19｜A Global Voice at Seventeen — Isabelle Chapman, Winner of the 2025 Kyla Artist Prize, on The Great Artist

A youthful talent ascends the international art scene, sharing a distinctive style and dreams for the future

[Taipei] In Episode 19 of The Great Artist, the podcast by DE Global Art Agency, we welcome Isabelle Chapman, winner of the 2025 Kyla Artist Prize—just 17 years old, yet already causing a stir on the international art stage. In this uplifting interview, this emerging global voice in art shares her creative journey, her artistic philosophy, and her aspirations for the future.

Claiming the 2025 Kyla Artist Prize at just seventeen, Isabelle Chapman's achievement upends the conventional notion that "art requires long years of accumulated experience." Her story proves that genuine talent and a singular vision are not bound by age; the international art stage opens its doors to every devoted creation. For many, seventeen is still an age of searching for life's direction—yet Isabelle has already raised her own voice on the world stage through her work.

In the program, Isabelle traces how the manifold inspirations of her early years gradually shaped her highly recognizable personal style. She shares her understanding of art and her philosophy of creation—for her, art is not merely a display of technique but a way of seeing the world and expressing the self. She speaks candidly about how, as a creator of a new generation, she established her own artistic direction at such a young age, and about the thought and perseverance behind that certainty.

Isabelle also speaks freely of her dreams for the future. Young as she is, she holds boundless passion and imagination for art, longing to keep exploring and growing along the creative path ahead. In her eyes shimmers a pure love of art and an openness of curiosity toward the world—this original aspiration is precisely the key that has allowed her, at such a young age, to find firm footing on the international stage.

Isabelle Chapman's precocity and resolve not only demonstrate the Kyla Artist Prize's discerning eye for young talent, but also set a deeply persuasive example for young creators around the world who harbor the same dreams. Her story tells every young person: so long as one has talent, courage, and perseverance, age has never been an obstacle to pursuing one's dreams.

The Kyla Artist Prize offers young creators a credible international starting point—the very embodiment of the academic legitimacy and international career that The Great Artist advocates. Isabelle, this youthful global voice, is the most moving echo of that spirit.

The Great Artist EP19 is now available on Apple Podcasts, SoundOn, and other platforms, with each episode running approximately 30 minutes. You are warmly invited to listen and meet this seventeen-year-old rising star shining on the international stage.