Lucy Ellis is an experimental animator based in London. In her work she 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.
CV
bird5.art
ZORA
Commercial Experience
Pencil TV Internship [September - December 2024]
- Compositioning files
- Preparing animation loops for client work
Ana Projects Internship [August - September 2024]
- Preparing assets for animation library and social media posts
- Organising files, desktop and workflow management
- Assisting shooting animations and experiments for social media & client work
Zora
- Promoting events via the Zora Instagram page
- Documenting art for social media
Rabanne Arts Factory (DAZED X Rabanne)
- Selected as one of the top 6 finalists for Rabanne’s Arts Factory 2024
- Worked on a creative brief exploring digital media art
Ana Projects (continious)
- Working freelance at Ana Projects studio to help with post production for client work
- Using After Effects, hex editors and collage animation to produce clips for the client
Night Bus, Collaborative Animation
- Working together with illustrator Hereos 4 A Day and musician Love Ssega to produce an animated short about taking the bus late at night
- Working from illustrations to create animations and designing backgrounds for scenes, animating transitions
Education
October 2020 - May 2024
BA Fine Art with Creative Computing, Central St Martins (First Class Honours)
September 2022 - June 2023
CCI Diploma, Creative Computing Institute
2021
Toon Boom Associate Certification Harmony Premium
September 2019 - May 2020
Fine Art Foundation, Central St Martins
Technical Skills
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Toon Boom Harmony
HTML, CSS, P5.js
Other Skills
Direct Animation
Data Moshing and Data Bending
Stop motion, collage animation
Exhibitions/Screenings
Coming:
London Short Film Festival 2025
2024
Past:
Art Basel Miami 2024
DREAM SEQUENCE: AN EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB at SET Social Peckham
Peckham Digital Film Screening, Festival Of Creative Computing 2024
CSM Degree Shows 2024
CSM Open Studios
OPENing Exhibition, RE-PRISE
Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 9 (@streetsoundsystem)
2023
CSM Open Studios
A Night Of Film and Opera, Earthquake Fundraiser
Cinema CSM Film Festival
2022
The Malarkey Film Festival, GAP THE MIND
The Darkroon Film Festival
The INDIs Film Festival
SwingLDN Magazine Spring Edition
2021
Industry Oxford Virtual Exhibition, Brick-A-Brack
Studio Against The Machine, Avalon Cafe
2020
Central St Martins Foundation Graduate Show
Green Spaces, Central St Martins, LUX Show
Publications
DAZED X Rabanne Arts Factory:
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/62499/1/paco-rabanne-arts-factory-finalists-artists
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/65106/1/meet-lucy-ellis-the-winner-of-rabanne-arts-factory-2024
https://www.happi.com/breaking-news/experimental-animator-lucy-ellis-named-winner-of-rabanne-arts-factory-powered-by-dazed/
https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/artists-to-know-art-basel-miami-2024
DAZED 100:
https://www.dazeddigital.com/dazed100#65299-lucy-ellis
LUX, Green Spaces:
https://lux.org.uk/event/green-space/
Awards
Inaugural winner of DAZED X Rabanne Arts Factory 2024