Ellen Stewart is a London based photographer. Her practice focuses around the every day in the aim to question our own associations to our private and public space. Using constraints such as her childhood house she plays with ‘making strange’ the seemingly mundane in order to explore the tension of how we look at the everyday and 'the epic'.
Stewart graduated with a Photography degree from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2019 and underwent the first Khadija Saye Photography Fellowship at London Transport Museum. She has had work in Elephant Magazine, PaperJournal, Source, Loupe and The Guardian. The series 'In My Fence Wall' won her representation from Photograd in 2020 and become a nominee for the SWGPP.
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2019-20 Khadija Saye Photography Fellowship at London Transport Museum (partnered with TPG)
2019 Nominee South West Graduate Photography Prize
2019 Photograd Selected Graduate for Support and Representation 2019-2020
https://www.photograd.co.uk/blog/2019/7/16/a-qampa-with-arts-university-bournemouth-2019-graduate-ellen-stewart
2019 (Shortlisted) Loupe Magazine, ‘Another Graduate Show’
http://loupemag.com/ags-highly-commended/
2019 Source Magazine Selection
ARTICLES/PRINT
2020 Ain't Bad - In My Fence Wall
2019 Photograd - Graduate Directory (Print)
2019 Paper Journal 2019 Round-up
2019 Elephant Magazine ‘Words of Wisdom from Europe’s Largest Student Showcase’ Interview Feature
2019 Source Magazine, PR Controlling the Message - Graduate Showcase (Print)
2019 The Guardian, ‘A plait, a pear and a piano – new photography talent’
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Magnum Photos x Reebok - Legacy, Kunstmatrix (digital)
2019 South West Graduate Photography Prize, London
2019 Suddenly Last Summer, Arts University Bournemouth
2019 Fabricate, Truman Brewery, London
2019 Free Range Introducing, Truman Brewery, London
2019 BEAF, Royal Arcade,Bournemouth
2019 The Outsider, Bushwick Community Darkroom, Brooklyn, New York
2019 On The Street, BUMF Gallery, Bournemouth
2019 that from a long way off look like flies, Seventeen Gallery, London
FACILITATING
2020 Gold & Ashes Creative Storytelling