Studio Bryony Ella

About

In the public realm, the studio designs and directs touring and site-specific public installations, developed through collaborations with nature-centred academics, artists and activists. Moving between film, sculpture, movement and music, these public installations blend mediums to create new rituals for a time of climate collapse, illuminating stories of kinship and belonging that are under-represented in the mainstream.

In the studio, Bryony works with an ecocentric and decolonial gaze to create paintings that explore the human body as a site of transformation; as an experience that is fluid, porous and intimately connected to all living systems. These works are guided by her ‘wild drawing’ practice, which prioritises sensorial experiences of environment over observational studies.

Both sites of practice weave throughout the other to inspire, inform and shape a body of work that celebrates, above all else, human-nature interconnectedness.

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Solo Exhibitions

2022 Anima, Campbell’s Art Gallery, London

Exhibitions

2026 So strange and beautiful and new, Bank of England Museum
2025 What the Ancestors Whispered, DēpART, FUZE Caribbean Art Fair
2025 Cultural Reforesting, Orleans House Gallery, London
2025 See Here Now - Art in a time of urgency, The Place Collective, Grizedale Forest
2024 Right to Roam Kernow, Falmouth
2023 COZY: Comfortable in my skin, Gallery OCA, London
2023 TRACE, Chilli Art Projects, London
2022 Lines of Dissent, Orleans House Gallery, London
2022 Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, 20 21 Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire
2022 Spaces In Between, W1 Curate & Everyday Racism, London
2022 Some Of Us Are Brave: The Feminine, Form and Function, CasildArt, Oxford
2022 Remember The Future, Orleans House Gallery, London
2021 Six predictions of Edinburgh’s future green spaces, British Ecological Society, Edinburgh
2018 Visions of Science, The Edge Gallery, University of Bath
2016 The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Research & residencies

2022 - 2026 Research Artist, University of Liverpool, Melting Metropolis
2023 - 2024 Visiting Researcher, Queens College, City University of New York
2023 British Council Circular Culture Programme, Trinidad
2023 Corbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Tobago
2022 DECIDE project, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
2021 Cultural Reforesting, Orleans House Gallery, UK
2021 Artist Research Lab, Fusion Arts Oxford, UK

Awards & Prizes

2024 Digital Black Dance Ecologies, Imaginal Cells, AHRC
2022 National Lottery Project Grant, The Colour of Transformation, Arts Council England
2019 Hidden Credit: International Women’s Day, Mayor of London
2018 Visions of Science, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
2016 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
2011 Trevor Walden Travel Award, National Museums Kenya

Selected Press Publications

2025 Bryony Ella’s Solar Cartography of Urban Heat, Made in Bed, Sotheby’s
2024 Creator of the Month, The Great Outdoors Magazine
2024 Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You (Chapter: Belonging), Bloomsbury
2024 How can art transform our relationship to nature?, Black Earth Podcast
2023 Taking Space in Nature: The Power of Change, Environment Magazine
2023 The Dataset’s Dream, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, March 2023
2021 The Colour of Transformation, Where The Leaves Fall
2021 Life Lines, bind collective
2020 Bloom where you are planted, Jackson’s Art
2020 The Rebel Zine, Edition 1, Newham Extinction Rebellion
2020 Framing the Conversation, Technology, Design & the Arts: Opportunities & Challenges, Springer
Green Visions: When artists and ecologists meet, The Niche (British Ecological Society)

Public Collections

Orleans House Gallery, Richmond Borough Art Collection
The World Reimagined Collection, UK