Ella Phillips
Ella Phillips
Projects
2025- present:
Grangewood Edible Garden, Grangewood Park, public engagement and landscape regeneration programme investigating how edible plants can be used to create belonging and nurture wellbeing
2025:
Tales from Below, Somerset House, planting workshops as part of the SOIL exhibition based on my co-authored book From Plant to Plate.
From Plant to Plate, Southbank Centre, interactive gardening talk as part of Imagine Children's festival.
From Plant to Plate, Emirates Literary Festival, interactive gardening and cooking talks across schools and venues in Dubai.
2024-2025:
Ready Road Library Takeovers, Croydon Libraries, author readings and interactive workshops.
2024:
Black Mary's Well, Calthorpe Community Gardens, community cloth & pebble making using natural materials as part of wider project led by Studio Gaylene Gould
Recipe Room, Museum of London, family cooking classes with storytelling at its heart.
2023-present:
Urban Garden Days, Various allotments, public activations that explore the radical power of growing food and community though the transformation of spaces
2022:
The World Reimagined a Poetic Journey, Creative Producer, poetry anthology featuring some of the U.Ks leading poets.
2017-2021:
Artist supper clubs, various locations across London (as Electric Future Foods), multi-sensory, curated food experiences.
Exhibitions
2025:
The Postal Museum, Voices of Resistance: Slavery and Post in the Caribbean.
2023:
The Portico Library, Dining In, (as Electric Future Foods, group show)
2018:
Is This It? online exhibition (www.isthisitisthisit.com)
2017:
The National Archive, Kew, Unlocking the Archive (presentation)
Central Saint Martins, Exploring Space and Place: Kings Cross (display, workshops & talk)
The Exhibit, The Exhibit Graduates (curator as FLAC Group, group show)
2016:
The Exhibit, The Exhibit Graduates (curator as FLAC Group, group show)
Wimbledon Space Gallery, Who is Marion Phillini? (solo show as Marion Phillini)
Lewisham Art House, Collaboration in Progress, (solo show as Marion Phillini)
Islington Museum, Islington Museum Residency (group show)
The Exhibit, NTWRK (curator as FLAC Group, group show)
2015:
OXO Tower Bargehouse, Float Art (group show)
National Theatre, Thirty for Thirty (group show)
Hidden Features, Edinburgh (group show)
Angela Ruskin University and around Cambridge, Art Language Location (group show)
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (group show)
Alto Fest, Naples (group show) as Marion Phillini
Flux Factory, STROBE Network, New York (group show)
Cannizaro Park, PARK 15 (group show) as FLAC Group
FILE VideoArt Festival, Brazil (group show) as Marion Phillini
Mexico Film Festival, Guadalajara La tua vita per me (group show) as Marion Phillini
Stanley Pickering Gallery, London (Q-Art presentation)
Victoria & Albert Museum, Festival of Disobedient Objects, London, (group display) as FLAC Group
41esimo Parallelo, New York (group show) as Marion Phillini
2014:
Art Lacuna, London Book Fair (artist book)
Crypt Gallery, The Interim, London (group show)
Gallery 223, The Shag, London (group show)
Art Licks Weekend, Dirty Laundry, London (solo installation) as Marion Phillini
Alto Fest, Naples (group show) as Marion Phillini
Napoli Film Festival, Naples (group show) as Marion Phillini
Union Gallery, Aesthesia, Bristol (group show)
Studio 180, The Shag, London (presentation)
Anatum's Abode, Dirty Laundry, London (solo installation) as Marion Phillini
The Viking Gallery, South London Goes to the Seaside, Margate, (group show)
Chelsea College of Art, Home is Where the Art is, London, (group show)
The Brewery, Cheltenham, Please DO Touch the Artwork, Prize winner, (group show)
2012:
Studio 180, Player/Playa, London (collaborative performance)
Studio 180, Open Studio, London (group show)
2011:
Great Suffolk Street, Consultation (collaborative performance)
Gallery Café, Faces in the Crowd, London (solo show)
Iniva, Possible Damage, (group show)
2010: New Gallery, Spliced (group show)
Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Inspired By, (group show)
Indo, London (solo show).
Residencies
2016:
Hackney Museum, London
Islington Museum, London
2015:
Alto Fest, Naples
Resort Studios, Margate (consultant)
Work House, London.
2014:
Alto Fest, Naples.
Anatum's Abode, London.
Prizes
2015:Buro Four, National Theatre, Commendation.
2014: The Brewery, Cheltenham, Please DO Touch the Artwork.
2013: Marsh Award For Excellence in Gallery Education
2010: Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Inspired By.
Languages
French (advanced)
Spanish (basic)
Skills
Adobe:
Photoshop
InDesign
Illustrator
Premier
MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Final Cut Pro