Ella Williams

I am a painter that specialises in large scale narrative works. Influenced by diaristic and archival processes, I intend to visualise memory as a cognitive archive.

I am interested in the productive, intrinsic inadequacies of recording transient experience, making paintings that act as imperfect ‘translations’ of periods of time, constructed from collated observational records, visual partialities become anchors into intangible, expansive swathes of time. 

These compositions are imagined as surreal, liminal, and latently inaccessible environments, illustrative of non-linear time periods. 

Considering memory itself as a subliminal act of storytelling, recalling and reshaping the past, I intend for the viewer to decipher their own narratives from these encoded compositions.