Ellie Curtis – Illustrations and Textile Prints

Victorian Parade on fabric

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Some victorian creatures taking a walk down their street..Idea for fabric or wallpaper.

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January 14, 2010 at 7:16 pm

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Cad I saw at a party

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I saw this cad at a party in Hackney, East London – grey boiler suit, moustache, pointy blue shiny shoes.

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November 8, 2009 at 12:08 pm

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‘Ingrid and Stephan’ textiles print

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A couple of melancholic, slightly confused characters..

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October 17, 2009 at 9:00 am

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‘Bird Jig’ textiles print

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It’s me birthday! Ok.
Here’s a new print that I’ve named Bird Jig, because the bird things are a-jigging. When I started drawing the figures, they were standing quite still, but then someone in my studio started playing some music, something between 1970’s folk and with a twist of medieval, and my figures started jigging in a medieval fashion and wearing pantaloons from the middle ages etc.

The prints are on linen, an oatmeal and a scarlett. I’m planning to also make calico cushion covers from these prints..I’ll add those when I’ve made some up to put on my Etsy shop, hopefully within a month..

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October 14, 2009 at 9:50 am

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‘Double animal’ print

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This is a trial screenprint, navy blue onto calico cotton, so the images here are roughs, in particular the larger repeat here. The idea is similar to my ‘Alfredo y Alberto’ print in the ‘Screenprints on paper’ catagory, two very differnt bodies joined up to each other, and so they’re all a bit confused.

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October 13, 2009 at 8:17 am

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Mural for ‘Wonderland’ exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood

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This mural was painted by me and my friend Nick Morely who I sometimes make collaborative drawings with. It’s part of the East London Printmakers exhibition Wonderland, which is comprised of prints related to fairytales (my 3 exhibition pieces are in my screenprints section on this blog – The Battle of Birlundula).
We’re going to run related workshops with kids in the October half-term, where the kids will be creating colourful fantasy characters, and then sticking them in the landscape..
We went to see the Indian minature show at the British Museum ‘Gardens and Cosmos’ for some inspiration for landscape layout in paintings, so some of my buildings became sort of indianafied. Have you seen that show? I think the last day is tomorrow, it’s really wonderful! I keep drifting off to sleep thinking about the paintings. The colours used are sublime, as is the line. In some places the details are so fine, that you may need spectacles to see them. Apparently, Indian minature artists can’t really work past 30 years old, because their eyesight fails because of the work. Do correct me if I’m wrong! You can have a look at some details of the paintings in my ‘Inspirational things’ link.

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October 10, 2009 at 9:13 am

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More September monoprints

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September 27, 2009 at 9:59 pm

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Chicos

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Some quick monoprints of a few men..

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September 14, 2009 at 9:54 pm

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More tattoos

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September 10, 2009 at 7:00 pm

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Birlundula fabric

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More on my Birlundula series..an island full of birds and big mammals, battling out their territory. They often masquerade as one another to trick one another, sometimes grusomely wearing the head’s they’ve won in battle. I got that idea from looking at the shrunken heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. These were used as trophies and worn around the necks of the victorious!

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August 14, 2009 at 7:29 pm

Posted in Printed Textiles