Gordon Ellis-Brown

“My practice is born from growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, in a seaside hotel with an extended family of transient strangers with no room to call my own. The Apollo space missions and iconic western movies indelibly etched on my mind, imagination captured by the extraordinary and unworldly – planets, alien visitations, cowboys and indians.” 

Tribes. Honour. Celebration.
Origin. Authenticity. Integrity.
Land. Ocean. Space.

From a childhood shared with tourists on the South Coast of England to his experiences as a traveler in California and New Mexico, Ellis-Brown seeks common ground by revealing fundamental truths in conflicting beliefs and cultural traditions.

Drawing on his graphic roots, Ellis-Brown uses iconic imagery, immersive colour, symbolism and photography - applying paint, pigment, encaustic processes and collage. The diptych composition is often featured, creating a primal tension between imagery, colour and surface. His meticulously hand-painted and multi-layered works aim to challenge convention, postcolonial attitudes and propaganda, taking the viewer on a journey through contemporary abstraction. Ellis-Brown renders his art with a raw energy that comes from the artist’s proximity to the subject. ...

• Mentoring Alumni Programme, Newlyn School of Art 2019
• Studio Practice Programme, Newlyn School of Art 2018
• Mentoring Programme, Newlyn School of Art 2017
• International Echo Award in Graphic Design
• IBM Bursary for Creativity in Photography
• Society of Industrial Artists & Designers (MSIAD), Portsmouth University
• Society of Typographic Designers (MSTD), Portsmouth University
• Graduated in Graphic Design and Typography, Portsmouth University

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• Chapel House Gallery, Penzance 2018
• Angus Hughes Gallery, London 2018
• The Other Art Fair (curated by Saatchi Art), London 2018
• NSA on View, Tremenheer Gallery, Penwith 2018
• The Other Art Fair (curated by Saatchi Art), Brooklyn, NYC 2018
• Newlyn School of Art Mentoring Show, PZ Gallery, Penzance 2017
• Come Rain Come Shine, Beaux Arts Gallery, Mayfair, London 2017
• ‘Ten Years On’, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives 2017
• ‘465 Sunflowers 2’, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013
• ‘Wild West’, solo exhibition, Winchester 2011
• ‘Howdy’, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2010
• Adam Street Member’s Club exhibition, London 2010
• ‘Sundance 1’, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2007
• Selected Photographs, Hamiltons Gallery, London 2006
• ‘Light and Shade’, Southampton Art Gallery 2003
• ‘Moments’, Portsmouth 1998