Studio Bryony Ella

info Photographer: Ewelina Ruminska, 2022
info Photographer: Ewelina Ruminska, 2026
info Photographer: Karen Johnstone
info Photographer: Brendan Delzin, 2024
info Photographer: Ewelina Ruminska, 2023

Bryony Ella’s practice moves between studio, page and public realm, exploring the body as fluid, porous and intimately connected to the natural world. Her practice is guided by sensory-led painting and ‘wild drawing’, intuitive writing, academic research and the conceptual framework of embodied ecology.

Her studio expands and contracts to create collaborative touring and site-specific public realm projects. Integrating storytelling with painting, dance, sound, sculpture and installation, they offer new ritual spaces in response to the environmental crisis.

Weaving throughout Ella’s work is an ecocentric perspective, a growing understanding of our human belonging as and to nature, and a commitment to revealing under-told stories of connection between humans and the more-than-human world.

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Curated selection

Stand of the Sun
My Body is a Sundial
The Dataset's Dream
Delphyne Stirs [Lion of the Sea]
The Colour of Transformation

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Testimonials

It gave me hope and excitement for the future of our planet and the inclusion of everyone to help save it... The artwork was very powerful and gripping - a feast for the senses.

- Audience, The Colour of Transformation

This was a seminal moment… Deeply connecting me to place, to the sun, to community… Synchronised, powerful, beautiful.

- Audience, Stand of the Sun 

It made me feel seen.

- Audience, The Colour of Transformation

This is a beautifully complex and deeply thoughtful way to help us reimagine our understanding of environmental data.

- Visitor, The Dataset's Dream

It felt like treading in an unseen frontier space.

- Visitor, The Dataset's Dream

The movement, the music, the artwork - it was incredible. I felt the journey, it was amazing. It's not often you get those three things together and the whole is more than its parts, it was wonderful. I felt it, I could relate to it, it reaffirmed my feelings about heat.

- Audience, Stand of the Sun

Absolutely superb, and surprising… It was very engaging on many levels. The performance and musicians carried you along on what seemed a journey. At times one of tiredness, at others full of vibrancy. As a way to engage people, to try to get them to reflect, I thought it was excellent.

- Audience, Stand of the Sun 

Mesmerising, immersive, life-affirming… I found it thought-provoking and therapeutic… I actually cried!

- Audience, Stand of the Sun 

"I thought it was very moving, very provocative and emotional at times. It particularly made you think about vulnerable people and their experience of heat."

- Audience, Stand of the Sun

It was very moving, creative, dynamic, there were a lot of moving parts and they were synchronised with one another; there were periods of activity with calm to regain your energy. it definitely made heat more prominent in my mind as something to think about and how others experience it differently. You think of heat as something that happens to you instead of something that is captured by you and the words of the poetry and the dancers illuminated this phenomenon to me.

- Audience, Stand of the Sun

More forward thinking work like this please. It is long overdue.

- Audience, The Colour of Transformation