Ellie Curtis – Illustrations and Textile Prints

More tattoos

Birlundula fabric

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!

Tattoos

‘Honour’ etchings

This first etching is in the Royal Academy summer exhibition this year. Unfortunately they’ve put it so high up that you’d need a ladder and binoculars to see it, or be extraordinarily tall (22 foot at leaast).

Alfredo y Alberto

Alfredo y Alberto are an idea for a screenprinted book that I’m working on involving a confused bird and panther whose lives are unfortunately entangled

Collaborative etching project – Fights

I made these etchings a few weeks ago with my friend Nick Morley (who is in my ‘Links’ section on this blog). We each drew part of a drawing onto the etching plates and passed them back to each other to continue the drawings, a bit like the game Consequences.

Benthonic ink drawings

I made these drawings a few weeks ago for a group exhibition that is happening called The Art of Lost Words, and it’s being put on by ‘text/gallery’. Anyway, here’s the info: 5-10th March 2009 at The German Gymnasium, London. The word I’ve responded to is Benthonic ‘adj.living on the bottom of the sea.’