Ella Chedburn
Instagram: @ellachedburn.art
About the artist
Ella Chedburn graduated from Kingston School of Art in 2020 and now lives and works in Somerset.
Her practice squeezes nature through a digital lens: scanning trees, coding virtual reality forests, wiring plants to computers, and projecting into woodland. She playfully misuses technology, encouraging glitches to run throughout her digital work and mimicking them in her prints and books. Her most recent group exhibitions include ‘Bookish’ at the Stanley Picker Gallery (2019) where she displayed a glitching book (titled ‘Wood Wide Web’), and a show with Bat Print Studio in the Silk Mill Gallery (2020) where she exhibited lithography prints combining geometry and natural forms.
In recent years, Chedburn has been particularly driven by the misinformation of the internet plus the modern resurgence of witchcraft; sparking the creation of fictional documentaries blending science and folklore, algorithmic otherworldly narratives, and mystical inventions. She is currently exhibiting computer-generated William Morris paintings on a tiny handmade screen at the William Morris Society with the Storybox Collective.
