Ella Bertilsson is a Dublin-based artist. She graduated with a first class honours from NCAD’s fine art department in 2009. Her work has been shown in Dublin and internationally in Canada, England, Iceland, Los Angeles, Malaysia, Rumania and Sweden.
Bertilsson is a member of the Black Church Print Studio since 2009 and the artist collective Turbo Monthly. In 2009, she received a studio scholarship in Vilhelmina, Sweden, and recently received the travel and training award to undertake the SIM residency in Iceland that she finished in March.
Her art practise is essentially autobiographical and incorporates ideas around memories, stories and characters mainly from her hometown. Ella uses printmaking as a way to create a layered narrative using different media in singular images. This media includes stop-motion animation, photography, painting, video and model making.
These particular series is inspired by lyrics of songs, which compel her to physically engage with the words by creating a body of sketches. From these sketches Bertilsson teases out patterns that she feels interweave with her own life experience.
