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Bio:
 

Naomi Ellis (b. 1994) is a London-based artist whose practice spans across media often incorporating sculpture, marbling, print, moving image and socially engaged projects. Her work demonstrates a particular interest in notions of connectivity and distance in our increasingly technological age. Despite being immersed in a world saturated with virtual information, much of her work stems from a desire to return to the physical. Naomi’s work is rooted in a fascination with geology, water, maps, and the search for Utopia; drawing inspiration from remote islands and satellite imagery as vital points for critical reflection.

She has work in the Ingram Collection
- one of the largest and most significant publicly accessible collections of Modern British art in the UK and is a current studio associate at Set Space Studio, Lewisham High Street. Please email to view a list of past and/or present works.
 

Contact: studio@naomi-ellis.com
 

Education:
 

Ba Fine Art XD pathway at Central Saint Martins, UK 2013-16 - First Class Honours

International Exchange – Sculpture, Kyoto Seika University, Japan 2014-15

Art & Design Foundation – Performance Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, UK 2012-13
 

Awards:


Mullen Lowe NOVA Award: Nominated and Shortlisted, 2016
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Residency Prize: Shortlisted, 2016

Queen’s Scholarship: Very Highly Commended, 2015

Phoebe Llewellyn Smith Award: Shortlisted, 2015

Royal Society of British Artists: RBA Scholar, 2012
 

Selected exhibitions:

2023
The Assembly House Summer Open Exhibition, Assembly House, Norwich, June
Flow: Materiality in Motion, SET Kensington, October
 
2022

Open Studios, SET Space Studios New Cross, London, March

SLINT NX #2, SET Space New Cross, London, March

2021

 

Open Studios, SET Space Studios New Cross, London, September

SLINT NX, SET Space New Cross, London, September

2020

CANCELLED Solo show, SET Space Bermondsey, London, 28th Oct - 8th November

CANCELLED Digital Intervention, Catford Mews, London, curated by Cura, 29th April - 10th June

 
2019


Our Skins are Porous Too, SKELF, online, curated by Adam J Walker, 16th January - 16th April

Playing Houses, Flat Time House, Peckham, London, curated by RCA Ma Writing, 30th March

 

2018

 

Show Women, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, Essex, 10th August - 27th October

Young Curators 2 Day Digital Media Workshop and Pop-up Exhibition, Lightbox, Woking, 31st July - 1st August

The Art of Collecting, Mall Galleries for Mayfair Art Weekend, Mayfair, London, 27th June - 6th July


2017


The 15 Cmdments
 (Cmd-Z), Curated by Sid and Jim,  The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, November

Text piece shown in Keiken's PDF library at FOMO - Falmouth Art Publishing Fair, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, September

Open Studios, SET Space Studios, Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London, August

30/30 project with 12oCollective (featured on Day 5,  Day 8, Day 11Day 13Day 20 , Day 23, and Day 27) April

Altered-Realities, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross, London, 22nd Feb - 11th March


2016


Embrace The Past, Forget The Future
IsThisItIsThisIt.com, Online Exhibition, December 2016

Palimpsest, Curated by Art Catcher, The Chocolate Factory, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, November 2016

Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize Exhibition, Mountridge Art Foundation, The Cello Factory, November

IsThisIt? AFK, Curated by Bob Biknell-Knight, London, November 

Touch Me Baby, Curated by Anna Choutova, Bones & Pearl Studio, London, November

Resurfacing Imprints, Lady Beck, Leeds, UK, October
Show Us What You're Made Of! Ingram Collection, The Lightbox, Woking, UK, 26 July - 2 October

Narrative Objects Display, The British Museum, London, September

Distributed Monuments, Geddes Gallery, London, July

Central Saint Martins Degree Show 1, London, May

Do Not Disturb Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, April


2015


Because the Internet
, The Rag Factory, London, May

The Copy Shop, Central Saint Martins,  London, April

2nd Grade Sculpture exhibition, Rissei Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, February


2014


KONTON カオス, a collaborative installation by the Chiteijin Collective, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, December

The Last Memory, Dead Space Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, November

LATENCY, Vyner Street Gallery, Hackney, June


2013

 

Exhibition Evenings, House Gallery, London, December

Central Saint Martins Foundation Show, London, May

 

2012

 

National Students’ Art Exhibition held under the patronage of the Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, July


2011


National Students’ Art Exhibition held under the patronage of the Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, July


Curatorial:


Flow: Materiality in Motion, Set Kensington, October 2023

SLINT NX #2, SET Space New Cross, London, September 2022

SLINT NX, SET Space New Cross, London, September 2021

Distributed Monuments, Geddes Gallery,  London, 2016


Publications:


100 Words a Month From Tristan da Cunha


Residencies:


Graduate Residency at Assembly House Leeds, Sept-Oct 2016

Narrative Objects Workshop, The British Museum, August 2016

Here in Archway, collaborative site-specific residency with AIR, February 2014


Workshops:


Suminagashi Marbling with the Young V&A, December 2023

Young Curators 2 Day Digital Media Workshop and Pop-up Exhibition, Lightbox, Woking, 31st July - 1st August 2018

Sign Making Workshops in collaboration with S.O.U.P, Set Alscot Road, February 2017


Press:

Review of Show Women, The Page, 2018

An Interview With Naomi Ellis, Lightbox blog, 2018

The Creators Project (Vice), 2016

'The Delights and Dangers of the Digital', 2016

Mullen Lowe Nova Award Show One Shortlist, 2016


 

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