Isabel Wadeson-Lee is now based in Ōtepoti, having recently moved from Ōtautahi.
In 2020 she graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, with a BFA (honours), majoring in sculpture.

Wadeson-Lee’s work concerns the materiality of language, drawing causal links between the built environment, fiction and speech, using hand-forged steel and the traditional craft of blacksmithing.

Her work Wordsmith (2020) was chosen as the 2020 SoFA Select acquisition by the University of Canterbury.