Ella West: The Keepers / The Maintainers

About the artist:

Ella West is a London-based artist and recent graduate from MA Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art (2022). Her work spans installation, printmaking and performance and seeks to be a playful investigation into ecology and environmentalism. It involves visual myth-making, alongside combining fragile materials to form sculptures that move, make sound or are activated through human interaction. 

In her works on paper, she layers both digital, drawn and hand-cut paper stencils to form varied editions of multi-colour screen prints. In the Keepers, the Maintainers (2022) print series, acts of care for the geological materials and the land are explored. Through these works, she is concerned with how geology, stone monuments and archeological sites can be used to explore how the ground has entangled itself with nature and human culture, and how it can shape our notion of home, history and the passing of time.