Ella Yolande
MA Art & ecology
Goldsmiths University of London
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Fine Art / Textiles / Film & Animation
My location: London, United Kingdom
Ella Yolande
First Name: Ella
Last Name: Yolande
University / College: Goldsmiths University of London
Course / Program: MA Art & ecology
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Fine Art / Textiles / Film & Animation
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Tangled in thoughts about the vegetal, thin places and our messy, multi-species bodies, Ella Yolande’s practice is informed by queer ecologies, ideas of resilience and thinking with the more-than-human. She works across video, 3D animation, sculpture and textiles, with reference to fieldwork, botanical architecture and protective wear. Recently she had been exploring methods of speculative science and artistic fieldwork to think with the figure of the lichen and specific sites on Dartmoor. Through considering the history and medicinal properties of plants, as well as the need for mutual flourishing and rethinking the human body as individual, she explores ways that multiple knowledge forms might weave possible ecologies of sensitivity. Ella is currently based in London studying a masters in Art and Ecology. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Lewisham Arthouse, London; Pilot Ima, Riga; Mega Art Fair, Milan; Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður; Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam; Od Arts Festival, Somerset; with screenings including the Coventry Biennial 2024, Videoity’s Utopia Today 2024 and Fiber Festival 2021. In 2023 she was a participant of LungA School, CCA Derry~Londonderry’s digital artist in residence and in 2024 had a solo exhibition in Nunhead Cemetery Chapel, London.
Thinking with Lichens; Attending to Trace
What might thinking through and sensing with the figure of the lichen offer? Lichens have survived and thrived in ruins over and over. This work approaches lichen as bioindicator, witness and archive. These composite, queer organisms question notions of the individual, capitalist time and heteronormative narratives of sexuality and survival. Thinking with Lichens; Attending to Trace considers how ecologies of sensitivity might be woven from living histories, infrastructures and sign givers. Working with lichens, peat bogs and an ancient temperate rainforest on Dartmoor, the piece weaves together seepages of information in an attempt to sense with other organisms, temporalities and scales. This project is comprised of Thinking with Lichens ; Fieldnotes for Attending to Trace Video 00:15:45 Material Witness ; Speculative Sensing Garments Overalls - Cotton, Industrial (lichen derived) litmus solution, peat trace Gloves & Hood - Silk, Industrial (lichen derived) litmus solution, peat trace Vest - Hand dyed wool yarn. Yellow - lichen boil dye; Blue - lichen derived litmus solution; Pink/ Browns - litmus dye reacted from being buried in peat bog. Pewter 50°35'24.0"N 3°57'36.0"W - Metal plate mapping Aluminium Plate Lichen oil Lichen scent
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