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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.

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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.

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