Lucy Ellis is an experimental animator and creative coder based in London. Her work explores the digital and analogue through experimenting with process and materiality. She enjoys working with scrap and found materials repurposing them to form new identities and narratives differing from their original purpose or intention. The texture of materials is important to her practice, exploring how it evokes memory and time. More recently she has become interested in screen based installation work exploring animation as an expanded practice.
She was awarded as the inaugural winner of the DAZED and Rabanne arts factory 2024 where she displayed her work at Miami Art Basel 2024. She has also displayed work in festivals like the London Short Film Festival, Peckham Digital’s Festival of Creative Computing and been featured in Labocine’s Primary Colours Issue 2025. She recently was selected for Arebyte’s Hotel Generation 2025.
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As the inaugural winner of the DAZED X Rabanne Arts Factory 2024 I had the opportunity to display my work at the Art Basel 2024. The work I displayed using a series screens ranging in size.
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Artist bio:
Lucy Eliis is an experimental animator and moving image artist based in london. In her practice she axplores the digital and analogue through experimenting with process and materiality. Her work incorporates the use of scrap and found materials repurposing them to form new identities and narratives differing from their original purpose or intention.
The work displayed explores our connection to the moving image in the digital age ranging from the errors in our technology and perception, to how we connect to the mediums of moving image. Themes of image compression and quality, errors in the digital frame, obsolete technology and the contrast between technophilla and technophobia are explored. The digital frame is not just a moment of imagination or capturing of time, the digital frame is a perfect formulation of pixels, a medium that can be broken and reformed. The digital frame is transportable between mediums and manifests itself physically through cold bodies of screens. Ellis reflects on her own experiences with digital technology while acknowledging a wider analysis of the way we perceive the digital frame.
Featuring works:
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