Matilda Ellis

An ongoing series of commissioned paintings based on photographs of places that the commissioners hold dear. Locations include Cornwall, California, Yosemite National Park and Joshua Tree National Park.

2020-current

What its like to have your parents deported- Editorial illustration commissioned by the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/opinion/what-its-like-to-have-your-parents-deported.html

T- shirt designed for Off You Pop which raises money for gender affirming surgery for trans and non-binary people. The design was inspired by tarot and the magic it takes for queer people to create their own lives outside the binary.

The shirt was sold on Everpress.

https://www.instagram.com/off.youpop/

https://offyoupop.bigcartel.com/

Feb 2021

Collaboration with Charlotte Ager. 

Documenting the Grimaldi clown service in Haggerston in which clowns gather to honour Joseph Grimaldi, the father of modern clowning. 

We tried to capture character, atmosphere and articulate the importance of silliness and documenting a tradition that may not last forever.

Editorial illustration for Elemental about the dehumanisation of people with dementia.

https://elemental.medium.com/seeing-my-father-vulnerable-with-dementia-made-me-notice-vulnerability-everywhere-c6bf66724f95

Art Direction: Tessa Modi

During January 2020 I was one of several illustrators and poets to produce creative responses to the daily headlines leading up to the UK leaving the EU. I worked with Minute Books as a part of their project ‘31 nights in January’.

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Publication taking the words of my grandfather John Emery and exploring the nature of mountaineering, its connection to research and ability to connect people through time. 

Using drawing, monoprint, photography, collage, risograph, screen-printing and audio to create a body of work in response to one text can then be curated and edited to form a narrative. 

Exploring the notion of archives as institutions of memory and how drawing can create emotional connection with bodies of research.

Illustration in response to Jeanette Wintersons novel ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’.

Could also function as Joan of Arc fanart.

Illustration based on ‘The Eel’ (1997) directed by Shohei Imamura.

Featured in ASBO magazine www.asbomagazine.com

A t-shirt designed for International Women’s Day in collaboration with 50 years of choice and Sister Supporter, an amazing charity that creates buffer zones, 100 meter distances between abortion clinics and protesters that protect all peoples right to choice, free from harassment.

The shirt was available on everpress for 24 days.

In July, 2018 I spent 10 days at Borgo Pignano in pignano, Italy. The trip focused on Oil painting on Board

Editorial Illustration for Its Freezing In LA! A new independent magazine with a fresh perspective on climate change.

I responded to Grace Richardson-Banks article about the connection between climate change and witchcraft.

Grey Man is a publication by Barney Fagan, Emma Teasdale and Evie Goodwin that explores the affects of the working world on men’s mental health.

I produced a cover and spot illustrations for an interview with a female pattern cutter that works on Saville Row.