EXHIBITIONS
Ellen’s joint exhibition with Arun Sood explores watery ecologies in flux through works involving sound, narrative, moving image, visual art, and other mixed media. It delves into issues of water resilience and nature restoration, and themes of movement/ memory, degradation/ renewal, and relationships between human and more-than-human lives. At the heart of the exhibition is a newly commissioned immersive installation: Springs and Seepages, a collaboration with the Otterhead Lakes nature reserve — a place with a rare acoustic and wetland ecology, a growing beaverdom and a complex hidden history. The installation includes field recordings, spoken word & improvised music recorded in situ, moving image, found sculptural materials, and a forest of canvases that have been immersed in the mulch of the mire, painted with oak gall ink & screenprinted with the flora of the wetland by visual artist Emma Molony. The exhibition also features installations of Ellen’s fictional sound stories in new forms: a new xylolibrarium displaying her fictional sound story, Paper Heron, and a new film version of Riverlandia.
Paper Heron, Ellen’s fictional sound story, was commissioned by Double Elephant as part of the Paper & Print Project funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, shown at two project exhibitions at Positive Light Projects and Queen’s Building in Exeter. It was showcased on BBC Spotlight and ITV news.