Isabella Inskip

Eternal Spring

In her piece, Eternal Spring, Isabella displays a series of digital renders, 3D prints and live 3D printing. Each piece depicts organic material that Isabella has collected and 3D scanned during the spring of 2022.

Much as plants seem to change from day to day during the spring months, viewers will be able to see this work grow as the 3D printer produces new elements throughout the course of the Graduate Show. Eternal Spring expresses the way in which the processes of documentation abstracts the original and how processes of replication, both digital and organic, create entities that are entirely unique and yet entirely derived.

Eternal Spring is on display at the 2022 Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Show. 

Holyrood Park on the last day of February

Holyrood Park on the last day in February exists as a collection of 3d printed objects, each derived from specimens gathered from Holyrood Park on the 28th of February. This work documents Isabella’s experience of the park on that day while simultaneously encouraging the viewer to consider this space in a new way. Holyrood Park on the last day in February illustrates the way in which processes of documentation and decontextualization can abstract an original object to the point where it becomes hard to recognise.   

Still Life

Still Life is comprised of a series of 2D renders, 3D prints and a VR experience. The flowers used to create this work were originally bought from Sainsbury’s as examples of flowers that have been developed by humans through selective breeding to meet a preconceived idea of ‘beauty’. Isabella abstracts these ‘perfected’ forms through her method of documentation and in doing so allows these flowers some autonomy over their next mutation. Meanwhile, Isabella’s use of plastic 3D prints and digital VR reminds the viewer of the ‘unnatural’ heritage of these natural forms. The title, Still Life, as well as referencing Dutch golden age painting, is an attempt to consider time from the perspective of objects that have been rendered still by the process of plastification.

April

April is a collection of five 3D prints, displayed on shelves against a purple wall. This piece documents Isabella’s commute to ECA in the month of April, as the trees she passed were starting to bud. Each element of April is derived from a 3D scan of a tree bud that was then 3D printed in plastic resembling the colours of the original. Isabella was drawn to the unusual forms of these buds, that are so familiar and yet so far removed from our typical concept of trees. Through her methodology Isabella further abstracts these forms, creating a new work that is at once documentation and imagination. 

Rose

Rose was Isabella’s first experiment with live 3D printing. The piece took place over the course of four days, with a new piece being printed each day. In this way viewers were able to experience the piece in a new way with each visit. The botanic forms of Rose encourage the viewer to understand 3d printing within the context of growth and reproduction.

Tulip

Tulip is on permanent loan to the Box Gallery. It is a 3D scan of a tulip, digitally mounted onto a cuboid and then 3D printed in a wood/ plastic material. It was displayed as part of the Box Gallery’s opening show Bigger Than Life (Smaller Than Usual).