Ella Jo Skinner
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Ella Skinner is a Welsh visual artist. Her unique, expressive work ranges from painting, sculpture, ...
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Ella Jo Skinner
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Ella Jo Skinner
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Ella Skinner is a Welsh visual artist. Her unique, expressive work ranges from painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. Her bold, textured approach to her paintings, which she creates using sound systems built at her studio in Manchester, UK, has attracted the likes of the seminal composer, Philip Glass. Her painting "Verde Nacht" was used for Glass's collaboration with orchestra Manchester Collective for their album "The Centre is Everywhere", released on Valgeir Sigurðsson’s label Bedroom Community in 2021 (Iceland, EU). The album was nominated for best newcomer at the BBC Music magazine awards.
Skinner is best known for her provocative and bodily installations which merge different disciplines to achieve an art form that engages all six senses and provokes primal reactions within her audiences. She is interested in using art as a transformative experience to explore uncomfortable issues within the contemporary age. While studying for a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and History of Art at The University of Manchester (2016-2019), she began operating within DIY experimental scenes in the UK. Her immersion in the gritty world of harsh noise and the electronic rave scene led her to begin creating environ...
Master of Fine Arts: Manchester School of Art (2020-2021)
BA: English Literature with History of Art: The University of Manchester (2016-2019)
Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Flesh of Himation, SIIILK Gallery at Kallergi Four (Athens, Greece)
Group Exhibitions
2023 Dismantling Dreams; Disrupted Seams, Lelija (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2023 KOMISAS, Offshore Eyes (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2023 Audra Festival Arts Programme, M.Zilinskas Art Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
2023 The Sound of Glass, Resonant Bodies at Rag Gallery (Manchester, UK)
2022 DIVINITY, Studio SCUM at Islington Mill (Manchester, UK)
2022 A Modest Show for the British Art Show, Islington Mill (Manchester, UK )
2021 SALIVATE (duo show with Samuel Lyon Spice), Islington Mill (Manchester, UK)
2021 Manchester School of Art Master’s degree show, Holden Gallery (Manchester, UK)
2019 Get Together and Get Things Done, Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
2018 VAM, Partisan Collective (Manchester, UK)