Lucy Ellis is a London-based visual artist whose work explores the tensions between analogue imperfection and digital excess. Beginning with experimental analogue filmmaking at university, she later embraced digital technology to expand her practice. Yet, through this shift, she was also confronted by the physical and psychological effects of overworking with digital technology including insomnia, hunched posture, eye strain, and mental overstimulation, which have become recurring concerns within her practice. Her moving-image and wall-based works embrace the recirculation of waste materials, both physical and digital, to redefine meaning.
Ellis graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art with Creative Computing. She was the inaugural winner of the Dazed × Rabanne Arts Factory prize, where she exhibited at Art Basel Miami. She has been shortlisted for Arebyte’s Hotel Generation and has shown at festivals including the London Short Film Festival and The Darkroom Festival. Her work has been featured in Labocine’s Primary Colours issue and on platforms such as It’s Nice That and Dazed 100.
Email: lucyellis333@hotmail.com