Ella Yolande is a visual artist working across video, sculpture and textiles. Through video installations and plant infused therapeutic garments, her research touches on colonial botanical histories, methods of resilience and artistic fieldwork practices. Tangled in thoughts of the vegetal, and our multi-species bodies, her practice is informed by queer ecologies, and thinking with the more-than-human. Her current work explores methods of speculative science and fieldworking to think with the figure of the lichen and specific sites on Dartmoor. Through considering the history and medicinal properties of plants, along with the need for mutual flourishing and rethinking the human body as individual, she explores how ecological sensitivities might be woven from living histories, infrastructures and sign givers.

Ella is currently based in London with the Junior Fellow position for the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths. She has exhibited internationally including; Lewisham Arthouse, London;  Nunhead Cemetery Chapel, 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.

CONTACT : ella@ellaporter.co.uk

Instagram: @ellayolande