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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2022

Selected for The INDIs Film Festival, The Darkroom Festival and The Malarkey Film Festival

Displayed at Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 9 in Kings Cross Canals  
Exploring the interaction of motion and sound, and the further exploration of the digital and analogue. Through collecting materials, I explored the form of the objects as they are, and how they can be manipulated through stop motion. Using the act of poiesis (giving life to something inanimate), the interaction of sound to these movements alters the perception of them e.g., reluctance, mechanical, and stilted movements. All the materials and sounds existed on my desk and only my desk. The limitation to one single object (my desk) and what it carries on its surface presented both freedom to explore the depths of the desk while also maintaining restriction. Through collecting data of one material e.g., the stamps, made me question the differing textures and properties of the same object in many different ways.

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