exhibitions
Tatterdemalion (2022)
Intercontinental Line: Reflection in Progress (2018)
Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017
Repurpose (2016)
New Relics, Concrete Abstractions (2014)
Artefact (2014)
Nicole Ellis
Ellis uses found materials and colour, such as industrial textiles, printed papers, wrappers and urban refuse, to make works which include painting, sculpture, installation, books and video. Her working method involves collage and assemblage with an interest in issues of culture and history in relation to materiality, archaeology, architecture and abstraction. The works reveal materials that are deteriorated and layered either by chance or redesign.
Born in Adelaide, Ellis studied at the South Australian School of Art and the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, where she received a Master of Fine Arts, in 1983. Through an Australia Council Grant in 1984, she established a studio in Sydney, where she continues to live and work, with periods of time overseas. She has given talks lectured at many different institutions including the Tasmanian School of Art, the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Goldsmiths College, London, the University of Western Sydney, Cambridge University, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, Wollongong University and the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, where she was a senior lecturer in painting and drawing. She has been represented by Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney and Conny Dietzshould Gallery, Sydney.