Ellen Barratt - Artist experimenting with light through photographic processes and installation
Ellen Barratt is an artist who experiments with light through photographic processes and installation. Her work explores the interplay between light, space, and perception. Through a multidisaplinary and multi-sensory body of work, she creates immersive installations that challenge viewers' perceptions of reality and conceptual prints.
“Cloud is a body without a surface but not without substance… although it has no surface, cloud is visible” - Hubert Damisch.
As an artist, Ellen likes to observe. Merlau Ponty articulated the act of describing as an approach to sustain wonder. Within her practice Ellen explores ideas of perception, light and its counterpart shadow and the natural transitions from visible to invisible - multiple layers of light.
Her practice is a multidisciplinary and multi-sensory body of work, employing graphite and ink to create two dimensional depictions of light, exploring photographic light experiments, and using glass and reflective materials to situate the viewer in an immersive experience.
Within the reality of our technologically advanced world, Ellen uses digital light within an analog process. Light intrigues her as it balances on the edge of materiality.
If you are interested in learning more about Ellen's studio practice or would like to inquire about their work, please feel free to get in touch using the email below.
Education
2015 - 2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Art, London
2014 - 2015
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, Manchester
Selected Press & Exhibitions
2025
Cyanotype Currents: Contemporary Abstractions in Cameraless Photography - The Griffin Museum of Photography
2025
Cataclysm - Issue 4 - The Rage Magazine
2024
Repetition - Photo-Canopy - Burton & South Derbyshire College
2024
Now & Then - Dark Peak Photo Festival - Distant Hills Brewery, Glossop
2023
Anthony Collins Solicitors inc. Jobling Gowler Charity Art Exhibition - Macclesfield
2023
2020
In Nihilum - The Swiss Church, London - curated by PFA Curatorial
2019
Natural Light - Air Gallery, Manchester - curated by Lumen Studios
2019
Mouth - The Artisan Well, Battersea
2018
Phototaxis - Untitled Factory Gallery, Paris
2018
Chelsea Degree Show - Chelsea College of Art
2018
An Idea for a Painting - The Workshop, Vauxhall
2018
BIONIC – Stour Space, Hackney Wick - 2018 - invited by the collective ‘The Third Eye’
2017
Under the Barbers’ Shop - Barber Streisand, Angel
2016
Conscious Configuration - St Pancras Crypt Gallery
Contact Ellen Barratt
Please feel free to send me an email should you have any enquires regarding works, exhibitions or press. I try to respond to emails within a week.