My name is Ellara and I make drawings and paintings. I live in Melbourne, Australia.

I attempt to create my art with a gentle indifference, I do not make them easy to look at, or censor them, nor do I offer any conclusions. I also do not try to offend, or make the viewer uncomfortable. There is a detachment in creating these images, yet they are incredibly personal.
I make these images using my own history, memories, beliefs, and stories, and the stories of others, both real and imagined. Childhood, adolescence, puberty and femaleness are key elements in the works, as are dreams, psychology, history and society. These concepts are studied in the works with a range of attitudes, such as curiosity, shame, scepticism, horror, compassion, benevolence, and apathy. Sometimes all at once.

Email: ellara at ellarawoodlock.com

2008
Stories from a Girlhood in an Oil Drum, First Site RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne Australia

2011
Drawing Twenty Eleven - Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate exhibition, RMIT building 4, Melbourne Australia

2009
Leeloo - Once Upon, aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney Australia

DONA, Espai Cromàtic, Tarragona, Spain

Trinity, Dazzleland Studios, Melbourne Australia

2009
We Are The Image Makers, online magazine, Issue 17

2009
Colouring Outside The Lines, Issue 5

2009
Interview in CarmineMag

2005
RMIT Tafe Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts)

2006 – Present
RMIT University Fine Arts - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing)

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All work on this website is copyright © 2011 Ellara Woodlock