For twenty-five years, Isabel de Vasconcellos has worked at the centre of contemporary sculpture. That proximity to artists, institutions and commissioners informs everything she does. Working closely with Antony Gormley for nearly a decade, she oversaw the full arc of his most significant exhibitions and permanent commissions, from first conversations to public opening. Commissioned by the Mayor of London, she wrote the authoritative account of the Fourth Plinth programme, one of the world's most significant platforms for public sculpture.

Today, her practice centres on working with a small number of exceptional artists at critical moments in their development: opening conversations with museums, commissioners and collectors, and helping shape the strategic direction of their work. She writes catalogue essays and critical texts for major international exhibitions, and curates for private and institutional clients whose ambitions match her own. Her conversation programmes for the Royal Society of Sculptors – Behind the Studio Doors, Material Encounters and the Sculpture Terrace conversations – have since 2021 established her as one of the most active voices in critical dialogue around contemporary sculpture, and she speaks and moderates widely for cultural organisations internationally. Her writing finds its most direct form in Inside Sculpture, a critical journal on contemporary sculpture written from the inside.

Born in Lisbon and raised between London and Brussels, she read Modern History at Oxford University and completed an MA in Post-War and Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Patron of AIDS Memory UK, the campaign for a permanent London AIDS memorial.