Ellen Barratt - Artist experimenting with light through photographic processes and installation
Ellen Barratt is an artist whose practice explores the intricate relationship between light, space, and perception through both photographic processes and immersive installations. Her work invites viewers to reconsider their understanding of reality by engaging with the interplay of visible and invisible forces—light, shadow, and their delicate transition between.
Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, she integrates traditional and contemporary mediums, including graphite, ink, photography, glass, and reflective materials, to create installation and photographic works which disrupt the boundaries between the visible and the unknown. In her installations, light becomes both a material and a medium, offering a multi-sensory experience that challenges the viewer’s spatial and perceptual awareness. She is drawn to the moments where light fractures, bends, and disappears, reflecting on how these transitions alter our sense of time, space, and self.
Ellen’s practice exists in the convergence of analog and digital realms. She combines digital light with traditional analog processes, creating an intriguing dialogue between the material and immaterial. In a world increasingly shaped by technology, her work offers a quiet meditation on the subtle, ever-present forces of light that shape our experience of the world.
Ellen’s practice reveals the hidden structures beneath the surface, offering a profound reflection on the delicate balance between destruction and transformation.
“Cloud is a body without a surface but not without substance… although it has no surface, cloud is visible” - Hubert Damisch.
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
Exapanding Light - Art'otel London Hoxton in collaboration with Art Nomad Curators
2025
Energies of Earth Artist Talk and Workshop at Filmverkstaden, Finland
2025
2025
Experimental Cyanotypes displayed at King's School Macclesfield
Cyanotype Currents: Contemporary Abstractions in Cameraless Photography - The Griffin Museum of Photography
2025
2024
Cataclysm - Issue 4 - The Rage Magazine
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.