ISABel peppard - bio

Isabel Peppard is a highly skilled multidisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of film, sculpture and stop-motion animation. As an artist, performer and arts facilitator Isabel has been involved in underground, queer and feminist art spaces since early 2000.

Her multi-award-winning work has screened at top-tier festivals, including MIFF, Sitges and Annecy, as well as at institutions such as GOMA (QLD) and MOMA (Rio De Janeiro) ACMI (Melbourne) and The National Film and Sound Archive.

Isabel’s short film Butterflies (starring Rachel Griffiths) won the Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival, was nominated for the AACTA and broadcast nationally on SBS Television.

Her hybrid feature documentary 'MORGANA' (co-directed by Josie Hess) had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival and received a national cinema release through The Dendy Cinemas.

Isabel has been a recipient of ‘The Directors Acclaim Fund’ from Screen Australia and ‘The Creators Fund’ from Creative Victoria.

Her work has been featured in publications such as The Age, The Guardian and Artlink and books such as '1000 Women in Horror 1895-2018' by Alexandra Heller Nicholas and 'Fairy Tale Films Beyond Disney' by Jack Zipes et all.

Isabel regularly exhibits at the Beinart Gallery, a curated space that represents surreal and New Contemporary artists from around the world including Shaun Tan, Jonathon Tsang and Ronit Baranga.

Isabel’s work uses gothic fairytale and handmade symbolic elements to tell humane stories of existential horror and personal transformation.