OPENING NIGHT: 5.30 – 7.30PM FRIDAY 28 MARCH
A tapestry of blood and bone is a story of immanence and interdependence. A multi-species co-creation of elemental consanguinity, of kinship and connection.
Materials animal, vegetal and mineral,
bind, weave, dissolve, stain, support, hang, stretch, wobble, sway.
Each carry with them their own stories of place, infused with the manifold textures, sounds and shapes that brought them into being.
Spanning myriad temporalities and geographies, the exhibition space is non-linear, but multi-nodal and rhizomatic in nature.
Awake, alive, aware, its materials are not static but ever-evolving. Nor are they separate from you or me. They are kin, existing within and without, simultaneously, inextricably. They are the marrow in our bones and the life-giving nutrients in our blood.
They are here, reaching out, proffering our place in amongst the wild and wondrous tapestry of things.
TAPESTRY BLOOD BONE
Sheep wool Pine resin Beeswax
Recycled hessian bags Eucalypt resin Magnesium oxide
Recycled hessian twine Damar resin Iron oxide
Human hair Eucalyptus oil Titanium
Lawn clippings Recycled copper* Cochineal
Recycled woolen blankets Water Shellac
Recycled cotton Vinegar Sea Urchin spikes
Glycerin Snake ribs
Matcha powder Chlorella
Recycled wood
Beach-combed coral
Fallen Eucalypt branches
Gelatin
(* Denotes a material that exists in more than one category)
BIO
Ellen Ferrier is a multidisciplinary installation artist based in the Byron Bay hinterlands of Northern NSW. Her practice is focused on the exploration and creation of regenerative materials, drawing on a diverse range of processes from pre-industrial to bio-technological.
Ferrier’s mediums include invasive weeds, earth pigments, raw wool, bio-plastics, bio-composites, reclaimed copper, fallen timber and foraged seaweed, among others. Through her experimentation with these materials, Ferrier creates large-scale multi-sensory installations that entice transformative shifts in how we perceive, understand, and relate to the world around us.
Ferrier holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Burren College of Art, Ireland and a Bachelor of Interior Architecture from UNSW, Sydney. She is a finalist in the NSW Visual Artist Emerging Fellowship (2025), a recipient of the Ian Potter Fellowship (2025) and was awarded the Windmill Trust Scholarship (2023). Ferrier is currently exhibiting in True North: from the forest floor at Grafton Regional Gallery (2025), and has exhibited at Cementa Festival (2024) and Delmar Gallery (2022). She will be exhibiting at Artspace, in Sydney this year. Her work Echoes of Chincogan was installed as a permanent public installation as the gateway to the Mullumbimby Sculpture Walk in 2019.
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