“Ella Bertilsson’s practice combines elements of sculpture, video, performance, drawing and sound to stage installations as a form of enquiry into bizarre and quotidian experiences and events that shape our character and define our identity. Moving between the personal and the universal, Bertilsson’s practice seeks to reimagine art historical tropes such as absurdism, surrealism and dadaism to form a contemporary treatise on the human condition. ”/Ingrid Lyons.
VISUAL ARTIST
Ella Bertilsson (b. 1982 Umeå, Sweden) is a multi-award winning visual artist based between Dublin and Callan. She has been awarded a project studio at TBG+Studios for 2024-2025 and is a recipient of the the Art Council of Ireland Bursary Award in 2024.
Selected solo exhibitions and commission; The Horse (2025); TBG+S Gallery Space Commission for Dublin Art Book Fair (2024); LIFE POND, Ballina Art Centre (2024); A PEANUT WORM'S DREAM; The Dock (2023-2024); CUT THE CAKE WITH CLAWS, The Complex Dublin (2022).
Selected group exhibitions; Borders - Rua Red Annual Open Submission, Dublin (2024); Abstract Reflections, Charlemont Square, Dublin (2024); Tides of Monumental Gestures, Museum of Everyone at Luan Gallery (2024) ; Endlessnessnessness, The Lab Gallery (2024); Love you my Sweaty, The Library Project (2023); Return to Disintegration, Periodical Review 11, Pallas Projects/Studios (2022), and Double Estate, OPW State Art Collection, Pearse Museum (2020-2021).
Selected awards: The Arts Council’s; Next Generation Award (2023); South County Council's Individual Bursary Award (2023); The Arts Council’s Visual Arts Bursary Award (2022, 2021, 2020), Agility Award (2021) and Professional Development Award (2020); South County Council's Individual Bursary Award (2020), FSAS Digital Media Award (2019), Culture Ireland and Nordic Point Mobility Funding (2018).
Selected live acts: Embedded, with Áine Phillips, LinenHall, (2025); NAIL IT, Tempe Bar gallery and Studios (2024); Embedded, with Áine Phillips,126 Gallery (2024); Storage Worm, IMMA Courtyard with Museum of Everyone (2023); SQUIRREL ||, as part of Museum of Everyone’s Culture Night Event, Galway Art Centre (2023), Finally Friday, Culture Night, Fire Station Artist Studios (2022).
Selected Residencies: Thyrone Guhtrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, IRE (2024); SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (2023); Residency with Museum of Everyone at IMMA, Dublin (2023); Pssquared Belfast, NIR (2019); The Peer Residency at the RHA (2018-2019), and NKD: Nordic Artist’s Centre, Dale, Norway (2018).
Bertilsson holds two first class honours in Fine Art Print (BA) and MFA; Art in The Digital World, both awarded from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland 2009 and 2015, as well as, and Comparative Literature Studies and Creative Writing from Södertörn University SWE 2011-2012.
She was an associated artist with The Museum of Everyone in 2023-2024, curated by Brendan Fox and a studio artist at Rua Red between 2019-2024. She has been a member of The Black Church Print Studio since 2009, sat on the board of directors between 2018- 2021 and is currently part of their artist panel and Process Award sub-committee.
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