Inspired By with Isabella Taylor
Isabella Taylor is an Australian born artist with a level of emotional intelligence well beyond her years. She has a passion for the world she lives in and her vocation is to help encourage people to follow their dreams, regardless of their circumstance. Her first experience with painting was when she was just one year old and she has loved it ever since. At 6 years old, Isabella decided that she wanted to interview inspirational people, to share their stories to help encourage other children to follow their dreams. More recently Isabella set up a purpose studio, where she now has the space to spread her imagination onto larger canvases creating abstract pieces. Inspired from her interviews with inspirational people from around Australia, Isabella has created abstract launch paintings – “I like that it can turn out with stuff in it, like once I did a painting and it had a mermaid in it and I really liked it and I thought – how did that get in there? I think it’s a living thing paint, because how does it get that shape, in whatever shape it would form. How the paint forms in the air. So say there was a blob on the brush and then it like formed a head, arms, tail…. Paint is a wonder to me, I can’t quite understand it but I really love it.” ( Isabella Taylor, 2018) Isabella relishes her time in the studio where she feels free to express her uninhibited creativity in all the colours of the rainbow. Isabella’s parents realised her passion for painting early and a dear friend of the family, who is a renowned Australian artist, advised to make sure she has lots of paints, advice from whom her parents greatly respected and instantly embraced. Isabella’s great Maternal Grandmother had a love of painting which was discovered in her beautiful expressions right near the end of her long life.
Episodes
In this episode of Inspired By, Isabella Taylor chats with Swipee creators—Ben, Jacob, and Sam—three young entrepreneurs who launched a global card game business before high school. They share how their card game started in a classroom, the challenges they overcame with manufacturing and marketing, and how community support helped Swipee thrive. The boys open up about school balance, ...
In this episode of Inspired By hosted by Isabella Taylor, Year 12 student and co-college captain Amy Wallace shares her advocacy for AI in education, her experience speaking at South Australia’s Teen Parliament, and the ethical challenges students and schools face as AI continues to evolve. From school-based AI policies to her book project and colour analy...
In this episode of Inspired By, host Isabella Taylor sits down with radio legend Sean Craig Murphy, owner of the Australian Radio School. Sean shares his passion for teaching and mentoring the next generation of broadcasters, offering insights into how his decades of radio experience have shaped his unique approach to education. From his start as a roller rink DJ to founding one of Australia’s top radio schools, Sean’s ...
Inspired By Tony Wheeler AO, Co-Founder of Lonely Planet travel guides.
Long before Google… Tony and Maureen Wheeler enjoyed extensive travel together from the early 1970’s on. People would ask them of their experiences and there was very little available in the way of comprehensive travel guides. They began to fill an unrecognized market by writing their first travel guide and going on to establish Lonely Planet.
Pete Williams – Australian Writer, Director and Producer – spent 15 years overseas in London and Los Angeles honing his filmmaking skills. Pete shares with us about his debut narrative feature film Emotion Is Dead which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2023 and incredible insight into how he went about making this, from writing through to self-distribution. Budding and current film makers, let’s get started!
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Isabella welcomes Tilda Cobham-Hervey, an Australian actress from Adelaide, South Australia in film, television and theatre and a writer / director, with a background in circus and physical theatre. Tilda first acting role was in 52 Tuesdays when she was just 16 years old and in 2019, she gave an outstanding performance as Helen Reddy in I Am Woman. Tilda shares her inspirational journey thus far as a creative talent, giving insigh...
Isabella speaks with Australian hyperrealist artist Robin Eley shares his inspirational story, beginning his journey in art drawing as a young kid. Eley was born to an Australian father and Chinese mother. In 1981 his family migrated to Australia where he completed high school at Pembroke School in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1997 he moved to the United States where he attended Westmont College, captaining the basketball team an...
Isabella interviews Paul Vasileff - Founder & Head Designer of Paolo Sebastian, an internationally renowned Atelier based right here in Adelaide, South Australia.
Paolo Sebastian has created exquisite gowns for celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Heidi Klum and Carrie Bickmore. Paul's journey thus far has been exceptional, inspirational, strong minded and very powerful, including the challenges he overcame to laun...
Isabella speaks with Flavia Tata Nardini ( Co-Founder & CEO of Fleet Space Technologies in Adelaide. ) As a kid, Flavia had a passion for space and went on to study space engineering and then started work in the space industry in Europe. Unexpectedly, love took her to the other side of the world ( Adelaide, South Australia ) and through necessity to stay true to her passion, she co-founded her own Space Start Up company which h...
Finegan is an Australian and Internationally renowned playwright based in Adelaide, South Australia who has had 100 commissioned plays performed on 6 continents and translated into eight languages and he is so young to have achieved all of this. Finegan is incredibly passionate about encouraging young people to write – “Anybody who puts pen to paper, or a finger to a keyboard, they have permission to….They are going to create somet...
Isabella welcomes Dineth Abeynayake who went from being an aerospace engineer to starting his own game development company Foxie Ventures. So excited to unravel this fascinating story for you which shares an incredible insight into how to start developing games and succeed at this, with the importance of education, creativity and the ability to market your product.
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Isabella welcomes Daniel J. Phillips ( Writer / Director of Feature film ‘Awoken,’ Owner & Creative Director of Anomaly ) to Inspired By H.Q.. As a kid, Daniel had a love of films and with passion and determination, this has taken him on an incredible journey to directing T.V. commercials, producing short films, including one that won multiple awards and his recently released debut feature film ‘Awoken.’ Daniel shares advise f...
Isabella speaks with Corinne Grant (Australian lawyer and comedian) about her inspiring journey thus far.
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Isabella speaks with three leading lights from around Australia in this packed episode – Don Meij (Australian business entrepreneur and the group chief executive officer and managing director of Domino’s Pizza Enterprises), Nicola Forrest AO (Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Minderoo Foundation) and Matt Moran AM (Australian celebrity chef and restauranteur)
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Isabella speaks with Ben Baker (American & Australian Portrait Photographer) about his inspirational and exciting experiences, photographing some of the most powerful people in the world (including the last five Presidents of the US) and he shares fantastic advice for young creatives to follow their dreams.
Inspired By Ben Baker Promo Trailer : https://youtube.com/watch?v=G_FEgdoCaHw&feature=shared
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