Isabelle is an Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen. She is also Co-Director for The Centre for the North and affiliated to the Interdisciplinary Institute.
Awarded her PhD in History of Art from the University of York in 2019, Isabelle’s first book, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (2024) was published by Lund Humphries as part of their Northern Lights series.
She writes and teaches at the intersection of landscape painting, environmental history, and climate change around the Arctic and Circumpolar North from 1850 to the present day. Among her most recent publications are ‘All Aboard the Nascopie: Image-Making, Colonial Modernity, and Coastal Memory in the Canadian Eastern Arctic’ in Journal of Canadian Studies (2024) and ‘Aquatic Art Histories of the North Atlantic: Frida Zachariassen and the Faroe Islands Fisheries’ in Periskop (2024). Additional recent and forthcoming articles pertain to glacial landscapes, animals and maritime histories, and borderlands.
Isabelle’s work has, among others, received support from the British Academy, NERC Arctic Office, New Foundation for Art History, Jackman Humanities Institute, the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Centre, the Royal Patriotic Society of Sweden, the International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) and the Association for Art History.
Isabelle is accepting PhD and Post-doc enquiries! If you have a project you’d like to discuss please get in touch.
For more information on her current research please see the CV page. Or contact at: icbgapp@gmail.com // isabelle.gapp@abdn.ac.uk
Isabelle Gapp 