BIO

Isabelle is a visual artist who creates 3D objects carved in stone and made of metal.

Her work looks at gender through material exploration, linking historical to the contemporary. Currently, she tackles additive processes with assemblages of plastics bringing medieval aesthetics to the present.

Isabelle grew up in Montreal where she had a career in television before moving abroad to become a SCUBA diving professional. She came back to Canada to attend the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts - Interdisciplinary with a focus on sculpture. She received the Starfish Award, the Arthur Lismer Award for Academic Excellence, the Margo & Roland Marshall Award for Sculpture and the Lyell Cook Scholarship in Sculpture.

Her work has been presented in group exhibitions across North America, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

EDUCATION

2018                       Bachelor Fine Arts / Interdisciplinary
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2017                        Sculpture (Autumn semester)  University of Brighton - England

2016                       Shielded Metal Arc Welding certificate
                               Nova Scotia Community College - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2014                       Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) certificate

2013                       Stone Carving
                               Atelier de sculpture Michèle Lavoie - Montréal, Canada

AWARDS & GRANTS

2018                        Starfish Student Award
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2017                        Lyell Cook Scholarship in Sculpture
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

                               Margo and Roland Marshall Award for Sculpture
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

                               David Lanier "Big hat, no cattle" Sculpture Scholarship
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2016                       David Lanier "Big hat, no cattle" Sculpture Scholarship
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 

                               Thomas George and Ethel Pearson MacKenzie Scholarship
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

                               Raymond and William Peters Off Campus Study Scholarship
                               Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada