It’s time for the fourth episode of Chewing Gum!!

Our next guest is our art podcast bestie Isotta Page! Isotta is an artist working in sculpture and the host of Art Is… a podcast for artists.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

marble: what it means to work with a material that’s millions of years old, viewing it through an ecological perspective, through care and craft, its existence in a contemporary practice, and honouring traditional carving methods.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Italian-American artist Isotta Page, (b. 1996) splits her time between Rome and Valencia. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh College of Art in 2020.

Passionate about manipulating materials, Isotta draws inspiration from traditional craftsmanship and industrial fabrication. From 2020 to 2022, she worked with recycled materials like styrofoam, resin, and fiberglass, utilizing boat and motorcycle manufacturing techniques for large-scale outdoor and hanging sculptures. In 2023, she shifted from sculpting styrofoam to carving marble, influenced by training with master marble carver in Italy.

In her ongoing series, Dark Optimism: Ghost in the Stone, Isotta explores ecological and geological themes, creating organic studies in marble of the human figure emerging from raw stone. She views her work as intuitive three-dimensional drawings, and she creates unconventional compositions of the human anatomy, juxtaposing carved and un-carved elements and high polish finishes with raw marble. Isotta's interest in marble focuses on its materiality and its unique ability to provoke consciousness about geological time.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

socials: https://www.instagram.com/isottapage/

website: http://www.isottapage.com/

BONUS GOODIES!!

podcast: https://www.artispodcast.com/

newsletter: https://isotta.beehiiv.com/

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