Isotta PageCV

   
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Isotta Page (b. 1996) creates contemporary marble sculptures that explore ecological and geological themes. Her choice of material is connected to her upbringing in Rome, where she was surrounded by Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque art. Her technique combines traditional craftsmanship with industrial fabrication. Central to Isotta’s process is the intuitive transformation of her mental drawings into 3D sculptural configurations. She carves marble as she would draw on paper, subverting traditional hierarchies and blending highly finished elements with raw, organic forms.

Isotta’s current research focuses on sculpting marble—an ancient practice—through a contemporary Anthropogenic ecological lens. Her interest lies in how care and craft can transform a seemingly inert rock into a totem of geologic resilience and a gateway for reflecting on geologic time.

Isotta earned her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Contemporary Art History from the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. She is currently working on her first public sculpture commission and exhibiting her work in a group show in Hudson, NY. In 2022, Isotta created a ten-piece large-scale sculpture garden for a private client in Umbria. Her sculptures are also in private collections in Paris, London, Rome, and Los Angeles. Isotta is currently based between Rome and Fara Sabina, where she has her studio. 

Isotta also hosts Art Is...a podcast for artists, she started the show in April 2021 as a response to the monumental shifts that emerging artists faced in the wake of COVID-19.

    The medium is the message


    2024, Carrara marble and steel, 100 x 50 x 30cm 

    The public sculptures were made during the Cammino Via di Francesco residency and are permanently installed in the town of Lugnola, behind the church of San Cassiano on the border of Lazio & Umbria in Italy. 📍Location

    Marble serves as a portal into geological time, formed long before humanity ever existed. Two spirals rise as symbols of continuity and eternity, evoking a bygone classical era.

    This idea materializes in a sculpture where the marble spirals blend with an industrial base crafted from recycled steel beams, salvaged from a Tuscan residential building. These beams, still bearing the original marks of their industrial history in Piombino, create a dialogue between past and present.

    In this context, the spirals resemble eyes gazing over the landscape, inviting us to perceive the scenery as a fleeting moment within the vast expanse of Earth’s history. While our lives are brief, marble endures for millions of years, offering us a rare and almost unfathomable perspective on the scale of geological time.