About:
Minna Ellis (born 2000, London) is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer who makes work about the natural world and the human impact on it through performance, video, drawing and painting. They explore their own physical and tangible interactions with natural and urban environments. With an overarching interest in the Sublime, Ellis intrinsically looks at the small pockets of the world around them that can be fascinating, beautiful and frightening as a means to create performative and playful artworks. Their performances question gender and body movement in relation to the environments around them. In their drawing practice, the artist creates highly detailed pen drawings that are inspired by maps and contour lines, but are semi-abstract in their form. Across a broad range of media, Ellis’s practice fundamentally stems from the link between nature and the body.
Education qualifications:
2019-2022 Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, BA (Hons) Fine Art [First Class]
2018-2019 Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, Art Foundation [Diploma with Distinction]
Short courses:
2025-2026 Artist Cohort, New Platform Art
2026 Introduction to Directing, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
2025 Acting, National Youth Theatre
2025 Exhibition Design and Delivery, University of the Arts London
2025 Contemporary Drawing, University of the Arts London
Curation
2024 Queer Liberation and Expression Through Creativity, Central Saint Martins Gallery
2023 & 2024 LGBTQIA+ Short Film Screening, Close Up Film Centre
2023 Postgraduates Selects, London College of Communication
2023 my body may be tired but my creative mind isn’t, Central Saint Martins
Exhibitions and Showcases
2023 LGBTQIA+ Short Film Screening, Close Up Film Centre
2022 Changing Environments (degree show), Central Saint Martins
2021 -2022 Spake Easy (film screening), The Bell Starr Lounge, Highgate
2021 Port of Call, Changing Room Gallery, Soho
2021 Everyman For Themselves (film screening), Everyman Cinema Kings Cross
2020 Sale (performance), Tate Exchange project, Tate Modern
2019 Foundation Show, Kingston School of Art
Accolades
2021 Phoebe Llewlyn Smith Award, Central Saint Martins, highly commended