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, it’s materials are not static but ever-evolving. Nor are they are they separate from you or I. 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
Chlorella
Recycled wood
Beach-combed coral
Fallen Eucalypt branches
Gelatin
(* Denotes a material that exists in more than one category)
BIO
Passionate about the earthly materiality of this world, Ellen employs local, natural and sustainable materials and practices to create works that enkindle renewed wonderment of, and correlation with the elemental world. Materials are variously processed to create uncanny objects and architectures that inherently speak of place. Slow and tender acts of care transform the quotidian to the curious, the forsaken to the flaunted, presenting them as something other than what they are, or what we know them to be. In 2021, Ellen obtained her Master of Fine Arts from the Burren College of Art, Ireland - a college that nurtures the convergence of ecology and the arts. Preliminary studies in Interior Architecture, wood-fired ceramics and bodywork modalities, cultivated a sensitivity and appreciation of materiality, spatial relations and the potency of embodied perception. These have all become paramount concerns within her art practice - one that foregrounds notions of care, connection and curiosity towards the natural world.