A workshop lead and educator at ESAAA – the École Supérieure d’Art Annecy Alpes, a higher art school located on the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Alps. Born in England to a French mother, Isabelle studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris before training in textile construction, leatherwork and woodworking – including a three-year diploma with the Compagnons du Devoir. She has worked at ESAAA for over two decades and coordinates ESAAA Techniques that regroups the schools technical workshops and technicians in ceramics, wood, metal, casting, fablab, textile, biolab, printing, photography, video and sound. She is also a founding member of a national network connecting technical staff across French higher art schools, chairs on the ANDEA board of directors (National Association of Higher Schools of Art) and is a working group member of ETHO (European Technical Heads Organisation).
