Matilda Ellis

A series of tetra pak etchings in prussian blue.

An ongoing series of gouache paintings

A series of etchings in response to astrology.

Group exhibition with queering the art classroom an organisation that aims to educate young people about queer theory and undo the heteronormativity of the UK curriculum through art lessons.

Held at Sutton House, a national trust house in Hackney, 5 LGBTQ+ artists were invited to respond to the students work and the themes of this organisation.

https://www.queeringtheartclassroom.com

https://www.instagram.com/queeringtheartclassroom/

Location work from a self-directed trip to Oaxaca, Mexico.

Gouache on paper.

You cooled my mind (2018)

An Open studios installation in Space Studios Hackney for the culmination of The Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School.

The work was a mix of etching and monoprint, pastel drawing and animation.

See more info on the show at @rdsdrawingyear18

Speaking Sappho is a poetry event that I organised and curated at the Barbican Centre. Produced in collaboration with the Barbican Young Visual Arts Group as a part of their Exhibition ‘Concrete Salon’.

Performers, poets and artists read fragments of Sappho poetry and then read some of their own work as a part of my ongoing exploration of the work of Sappho and how words can travel through time to still have an impact.

An ongoing print exploration into the poetry of Sappho.

Etching and monoprint

A series of GIF’s created in response to fragments of Sappho poetry.

A group show with alumni of the Royal Drawing School class of 2018 in collaboration with Space Honey.

A selection of gouache paintings done on location in Italy and the US.

Off-track’ is an animation made with Charlotte Ager, Kitty Glavin, Holly O’Neil and Joey Yu. Set to words from ‘Middlesex’ by Jeffrey Eugenides the film explores the complexity of language and how we express ourselves.

The film was made in six weeks using stop -motion techniques in a set built entiely from paper and cardboard. 

https://vimeo.com/191649130

Collaboration with Charlotte Ager 

Exploring language and how we record people's lived experience. Drawing from a conversation about Male depression in the workplace recorded as part of The Listening Project. 

Resulting in a screen printed publication that reflected the subjectivity of the spoken word taking key moments from our drawing. This publication was left of train's to be experienced by people during their daily commute. 

Fashion Illustrations based on book passages.

Drawings created based on and as tangents of objects in the British Museum.

Exploring the connotations of female makers using craft processes in a Fine Art context. I combined film stills from a performance with drawing and text to show the power that craft has to create a conversation.

The publication was displayed on a plinth alongside the basket created during the performance 

https://vimeo.com/236720955

What Death Cannot touch is a film made with Charlotte Ager, Kitty Glavin, Lottie Fox-Jones, Holly O’Neil and Joey Yu. Set to words from ‘The Goldfinch’ by Donna Tartt the film explores the importance of art; both for its fragility and for its ability to connect people across space and time.

The film was made in seven weeks and is made using stop motion and hand-drawn frame by frame animation. 

Digital iphone illustrations based on ceramics in The Wallace Collection in London.