Isabelle Sully, photo courtesy of the artist.
Join us for an afternoon presentation by Isabelle Sully, an artist, curator, and writer whose practice often centers on the mechanisms and materiality of administration.
In this talk, she presents her practice through a series of recent projects, drawing on both the institutional contexts she works within and the self-initiated facets of her work. She reflects on projects developed through her current role as Artistic Director at A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam, alongside initiatives such as DIY publishing and a performance project based in the smallest theatre in the Netherlands. Across these examples, she explores how administrative writing can be refigured as an artistic practice.
She is a faculty member for the Early Career Banff Artist in Residence 2026, a transformative five-week residency that provides mentorship, critical feedback, and studio time to visual artists in the early stages of their careers.
This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.
Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.
About Isabelle Sully
Isabelle Sully
Isabelle Sully practices across art-making, curating, editing and writing. Working to context and with feminist histories in mind, she takes the mechanisms and materiality of administration as a main focus, developing conceptual projects that span (experimental) writing, sculpture, performance, exhibition-making and publishing. Originally from Melbourne/Naarm, she now lives in Rotterdam where she is the founding editor of Unbidden Tongues, co-curator of Playbill, Amsterdam, and artistic director of A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam.