ISABel peppard - bio

Isabel Peppard is a highly skilled multidisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of film, sculpture and stop-motion animation. 

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.

Her short film Butterflies (starring Rachel Griffiths) won the Dendy award at the Sydney Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on SBS Television.

Isabel's hybrid feature documentary 'MORGANA' (co-directed by Josie Hess) had it's world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 and received a national cinema release through The Dendy cinema’s in 2020.

As an artist, performer and arts facilitator Isabel has been involved in underground, queer and feminist art spaces since early 2000. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Age, The Guardian, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Fangoria and Artlink.

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.