Ellie studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and Winchester School of Art. She currently lives and works in London where she teaches at Chelsea College of Art and Design. She is also a visiting tutor at various art colleges across the UK.
Since 2001 Ellie has been exhibiting and performing in the UK and internationally at various galleries and museums, most notably The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London and El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela.
Ellie has held residencies in London, Suffolk, Wales, Germany and the United States. On graduating she was Creative Review’s Pick of the Crop and in 2007 was nominated for the Jerwood Artist’s Platform. Ellie has been the recipient of two grants from the Arts Council of England and was awarded a Jerwood fellowship in 2008.
Increasingly working in opera as part of her practice, Ellie has been commissioned to make moving image work for English National Opera, Trinity Laban and The Almeida Theatre.
Publications and radio include: Art Review, A-N, Creative Review, The Guardian Guide, Circa, Flux, The Irish Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Metro, Fabric Magazine, The Evening Standard, BBC Radio Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC News 24 and BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour.