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Ella Trott is a London-based artist whose practice centers around the relationship between reality and representation. Recently graduating from the fine art course at Central Saint Martins, she honed her interest in the interplay between underpainting and overpainting.
Using classical oil painting techniques, she explores the treasures of her family archive, seeking to address the disruptive position of photography within the world of painting.
Ella is captivated by the continual pull between dreaming and nostalgia—a consuming sense of longing for an idealized state, for something that did not, cannot, or was never hers to experience. This fascination drives her work, where she merges popular culture with deeply meaningful family studies to address the fatality and satire of overromanticization.
Through her art, Ella delves into our tendency to "imprison" ourselves in a state of "life-dysmorphia"—a poignant dissatisfaction with the present, where one clings to a belief that the object of desire or longing is preferable to the present, nurturing the deceptively pessimistic notion that the grass is always greener elsewhere.
An Americanized fascination with eccentricity is central to Ella’s practice, with her 4th of July birthday sparking a pseudo-connection to an exaggerated idea of America. This symbolic link to an ultimate "dream land" has inspired an ongoing exploration into how physical and emotional distance fuels obsession and romanticization.
Ella’s degree show project, Until Our Paths Cross, explored the lives of her parents before they met. The project engaged with a "euchronic" time, transcending past and present to examine the interconnectedness of nostalgia and dreaming, underscoring how distance can indeed make the heart grow fonder.
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Using classical oil painting techniques, she explores the treasures of her family archive, seeking to address the disruptive position of photography within the world of painting.
Ella is captivated by the continual pull between dreaming and nostalgia—a consuming sense of longing for an idealized state, for something that did not, cannot, or was never hers to experience. This fascination drives her work, where she merges popular culture with deeply meaningful family studies to address the fatality and satire of overromanticization.
Through her art, Ella delves into our tendency to "imprison" ourselves in a state of "life-dysmorphia"—a poignant dissatisfaction with the present, where one clings to a belief that the object of desire or longing is preferable to the present, nurturing the deceptively pessimistic notion that the grass is always greener elsewhere.
An Americanized fascination with eccentricity is central to Ella’s practice, with her 4th of July birthday sparking a pseudo-connection to an exaggerated idea of America. This symbolic link to an ultimate "dream land" has inspired an ongoing exploration into how physical and emotional distance fuels obsession and romanticization.
Ella’s degree show project, Until Our Paths Cross, explored the lives of her parents before they met. The project engaged with a "euchronic" time, transcending past and present to examine the interconnectedness of nostalgia and dreaming, underscoring how distance can indeed make the heart grow fonder.
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