Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Ellen Bell and I had a really enjoyable meeting with the client yesterday who viewed several new pieces in advance of the Art London exhibition. Ellen Bell uses found ephemera in her work. Scouring second-hand bookshops, auctions, boot sales she gathers material from everyday life - maps, postage stamps, dictionaries, novels often dating back 60 or 70 years incorporating them into her artwork often creating intelligent, sensitive and darkly humorous narrative. Now that Ellen is studying for her PhD at Dartington she has given up teaching and will be making more pieces to finance her studies and to explore new themes. For an illuminating account of Ellen's creative ideas and inspiration, visit the Films section of the new website where you can watch the film Hard Words in which she talks about her work. This is the first in a series of artist portraits that we are currently making with the film-makers Last Bus.
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