Ella Warner (b.2003) is a London based artist. Her work discusses narratives, whether private or public, through the use of fantastical figures.

 

‘My narratives come into existence as a bi-product of an isolated psychological dialogue. I understand my work as a personified composition of one’s brain, where thoughts dance, wrestle, or merely smirk as they walk past one another. From this, characters are birthed and interact, mimicking the behaviour of thoughts and feelings. This allows a deeper engagement with personal, social, or political questionings. Through simultaneously indulging in features of the humanly recognisable and the otherworldly, a duality is formed between the physicality of human experience and the metaphysical nature of thoughts.

 

Curiosity around the tangibility of thoughts opens portals to their properties; their weight, their texture, their smell. I imagine some thoughts to hold a fragrance as insufferable as the Duty Free in Gatwick Airport. I want to embody these odours in the font of caricature bodies, alluding to the behaviour and language of layered and loud thoughts. The reference to childishness through chubby or bright figures presents a naïve unintelligence and a façade of airy-fairy bliss. I continue to find this a captivating aesthetic to present stratified thoughts.’