C.V Ella Bertilsson (SWE/IRE)
Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Awarded Project Studio 2024-2025.
Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Membership 2025-2027.
Education
2018 Teaching, Delivery and Evaluation, QQ1 Level 6 Component Certificate: Distinction, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education Training Board, IRE.
2013- 2015 MFA, Art in the Digital World, First Class Honors, NCAD, Dublin, IRE.
2011- 2012 Comparative Literature Studies A,B and Creative Writing, Södertörn Högskola, Stockholm, SWE.
2005- 2009 BA, Fine Art Print, First Class Honors, NCAD, Dublin.
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Commissions
2025 The Horse Gallery, Dublin (forthcoming).
2024 TBG+S Gallery Space Commission for Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin.
2024 LIFE POND, Ballina Art Centre, Ballina co Mayo, IRE.
2023- A PEANUT WORM’S DREAM, 2023-2024, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, co Leitrium, IRE.
2022 CUT THE CAKE WITH CLAWS, The Complex Ground Floor Gallery, Dublin.
2010 Doris Day Demon and the Invisible Presence, Joinery Gallery, Dublin.
2011 B-Side, Temple Bar Cultural Trust, No Grants Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Borders - Rua Red Annual Open Submission, Dublin.
2024 Abstract Reflections, Charlemont Square, Dublin.
2024 Tides of Monumental Gestures, Museum of Everyone at Luan Gallery, Athlone, IRE.
2024 Endlessnessnessness, The Lab, Dublin.
2023 Love you my Sweaty, The Library Project, Dublin.
2022 Emerging Practice, The Library Project, Dublin.
2021 Periodical Review, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin.
2021 Black Church Print Studio Members Group Show, The Library Project, Dublin.
2020 Stories from Lismore and Beyond, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IRE.
2020 Games for Artists & Non Artists, NCAD Gallery, curated by Brendan Fox, Dublin.
2020 Black Church Editions, BCPS members’ exhibition, Library Project, Dublin.
2020- Double Estate, OPW State Art Collection, 2020-2021, Pearse Museum, Dublin.
2020 HOME made HOME, MART Award Exhibition, Sharon Ramsey, Carrie Anne Channon, Ella Bertilsson, curated by Katherine Nolan, MART, Dublin.
2019 PeripheriesOPEN, curators Anne Hendricks, Paul Carter, James Merrigan and Emma Roche, Gorey School of Art, Gorey, IRE.
2019 ARRANGMENTS, conceived and produced by James Merrigan, Pallas Projects /Studios, Dublin.
2018 SheFest, curators Becky Gee, Liz Dickinson, Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2018 Peripheries OPEN, curated by Paul Carter, James Merrigan, Deirdre Robinson, Emma Roche, Gorey School of Art, Gorey, IRE.
2018 Platform, curated by Sharon Murphy, Draíocht Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Attitude Precedes Form, curated by Hilary Murray, Black Church Print Studio’s Exhibition at the Library Project, Dublin.
2016 When All is Said and Done, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, ICE.
2016 Gluggaveður, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, ICE.
2016 To Bonus and Back, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, ICE.
*Group exhibitions 2015-2018 were realised as a collaborative practice with artist Ulla Juske.
2015 MFA Exhibition, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2015 Winter Open Submission, Rua Red Gallery, Dublin.
2015 Boyle Arts Festival Visual Art Exhibition, curated by Tony Murphy, Boyle, IRE.
2014 Intermingle, Platform of the Arts, Belfast, NIR.
2014 State of Play, NCAD Postgraduate Exhibition, Emmet House, Dublin, IRE.
2014 Ile Seguin 11/25/11, curated by Valerie Connor, Library Project, Dublin, IRE.
2013 Proof It, The Library Project, Dublin, IRE.
2010 Penang International Print Biennale, Penang, MAL.
2010 Something tells me its all happening at the Zoo, curated by Davy Moor, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
2010 Turboland to the End of the World, collaboration between Aisling Conroy, Ella Bertilsson, Killian Dunne, Joinery Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
2010 Siksjö, collaboration between Aisling Conroy, Ella Bertilsson, Killian Dunne, Master Thief Secret Lair Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
2010 Impressions 2010, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IRE.
2011 Harry and Kate, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, ICE.
2011 Summeringshit, Ella Bertilsson and Eric Ehrnschwender, Korpúlfsstaðir, ICE.
2011 Occasional Gale, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, ICE.
2010 Something tells me its all happening at the Zoo, curated by Davy Moor, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
2009 Graduate Show, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IRE.
2009 RDS Student Award Travelling show, Dublin, Wexford, Cork, IRE.
2009 Symmetry, Original Print Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
2009 Student Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, NIR.
2009 NEU!, selected by Monstertruck curators, Monstertruck Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
2008 RDS Student Award Show, Dublin, IRE.
Performances
2025 Embedded, with Áine Phillips, LinenHall, (forthcoming).
2024 NAIL IT, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.
2024 Embedded, 126 Gallery with Áine Phillips & Helena Walsh, Galway, IRE.
2023 Storage Worm, IMMA Courtyard with Museum of Everyone, Dublin IRE.
2023 SQUIRREL ||, live performance, Museum of Everyone at Galway Art Centre, Galway, IRE.
2022 Finally Friday, live performance, Fire station Artist Studios, Dublin, IRE.
2020 Kitchen Culture, zoom performance with Child Naming Ceremony, Games For Artists And Non-Artists, curated by Brendan Fox, the internet.
2020 SQUIRREL, commissioned live performance in Áine Phillips ‘Butter Up’ live event, MART, Dublin, IRE.
2019 SLIME SLUG SLUSH, THE ART FACTORY, Phases 1& 2, The Complex, Dublin, IRE.
2019 HOST, Child Naming Ceremony, live event, TBG&S; Studio 6, Dublin, IRE.
2018 Deconstruct to Reconstruct, live performance, Ella Bertilsson & Ulla Juske in collaboration with Celina Muldoon, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IRE.
2018 Mother of Birds Taxi Service, urban live acts in a Fiat Cinquecento, locations Dublin 1-Dublin 16, Ella Bertilsson & Ulla Juske, IRE.
2015 Clarissa’s Story, Room {1}, curated by Angela McDonagh, Arbour Hill, Dublin, IRE.
Awards
2024 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Bursary Award.
2023 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award.
2023 South Dublin City Council Individual Bursary Award, IRE.
2022 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Arts Bursary Award Round 2.
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Project Award Strand 1.
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Arts Bursary Award Round 2.
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award Round 2.
2020 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Arts Bursary Award Round 2.
2020 South Dublin City Council Individual Bursary Award, IRE.
2020 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Professional Development Award.
2020 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Covid-19 Crises Response Award.
2019 Fire Station Artists Studios Digital Media Bursary Award, Dublin.
2018 Culture Ireland Funding, Dublin, received with Ulla Juske.
2016 Nordic Culture Point, Nordic and Baltic Countries Mobility Funding, SWE, EST.
2014 Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse Artists’ Award, received with Lina Palmqvist, SWE.
2012 The Arts Council of Ireland’s Travel and Training Award.
Achievements
2023- Finalist 2021& 2023, the Emergence Visual Arts Award, Wexford Art Centre, IRE.
2021 Catalytic Intersections Symposium on Irish Artists' Moving Images, Irish Artists’ Film Index, The Project Art Centre, 2021, Dublin, IRE.
2020 Finalist, Beers London Summer Marathon Exhibition 2020, Beers London, UK.
2020 Selected into the Irish Artists' Film Index, Dublin, IRE.
2020- Part of subcommittee for The Process Residency, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin, IRE.
2019- Rua Red Studio Artist 2019-2024, part of the education programme and artist panel since 2021.
2019 Artists Initiated Projects {2}: Pallas Project/Studios, Dublin.
2019 Shortlisted, Emergence Visual Arts Award, Wexford Art Centre, IRE.
2019 Shortlisted, FSAS Residential Studios 2020, Dublin.
2019 Contributor to The Lives of Artists, Sarah Thornton, RHA Gallery, Dublin.
2019 SLIME SLUG SLUSH, THE ART FACTORY phase 1, Complex, Dublin.
2018 OPW Ireland State Collection, works including; Beyond the Sandy Suburbs stills 1-3, archival prints, Dublin.
2017 Board of Directors at Black Church Print Studio, 2017-2020, Dublin.
2009- Member at Black Church Print Studio, ongoing.
Residencies
2024 Thyrone Guthrie Centre, as part of the Next Generation Award, December, Annamakarreg, IRE
2023 Museum of Everyone at IMMA, August, Dublin, IRE.
2023 The Association of Icelandic Artists (SIM), residency Dec, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2019 Pssquared, Short Residencies, Belfast, NIR.
2018 Royal Hibernian Academy, Peer Residency, Sept 2018 - Mar 2019, Dublin, IRE.
2018 NKD; Nordic Artist’ Centre, Residency Jan - Mar, Dale, NOR.
2017 INCUBATE, residency Oct - Dec, Draíocht Art Centre, Dublin,
2017 PROCESS, residency, April, ArtBox, Dublin.
2016 The Association of Icelandic Artists (SIM), Residency Jun - Sept, Reykjavik, ICE.
2011 The Association of Icelandic Artists (SIM), Residency Feb - May, Reykjavik, ICE.
2010 Elsie-May Norman Studio Scholarship, residency, Dec, Wilhelmina, SWE.
Collaborative Exhibitions & Projects
2018 Beyond the Sandy Suburbs, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin.
2018 Carrier of Memories, Draíocht Art Centre Inaugural Commission, Dublin.
2018 11.9 km Northwest of the City Centre, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia.
2017 The Waiting Room, curated by Hilary Murray, ArtBox, Dublin.
2017 Museum of an Unknown Person, installation in a van with Ulla Juske, curated by Oonagh Young and Mary Cremin, Circe Pavilion, Treeline Project, Dublin, IRE.
2015 Time is what happens when nothing else does, The Hut Project {I}, curated by Davy Moor, OPW in association of the RHA, Dublin.
*Exhibitions 2015-2018 were realised in a collaboration with artist Ulla Juske.
Audio, Writing & Listening Events
2024 Giving Up, writing contribution to Mirror Lamp Press Issue 10, Dublin.
2021 JUNK & GEMS, audiobook on cassette, TBG+S Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin.
2020 LEARN ENGLISH - Pocket Size Poetry for All Humans, audio book on cassette, TBG+S Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin.
2019 SPEAKER, Dublin Digital Radio live listening event, TBG&S Studio12.
2018 Mother of Birds & Slutljana’s Karaoke, live in a Van, Ella Bertilsson & Ulla Juske, Rosborough House, Wicklow, IRE.
2017 Uncertain Matter ||, audio-installation, Deiglan Gallery, Akureiry; Outvert Artspace & Arts Iceland, Isafjordur; Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2016 Uncertain Matter |, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2014 Närvaro/Presence, audio walk, Ella Bertilsson & Lina Palmqvist, Phoenix Park, Dublin, IRE & Svarta Mossen, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Screenings
2020 Rainy Days in Blanch, Screening, HDLU, Zagbreb, HR.
2019 Beyond the Sandy Suburbs, Screening, The Darkroom, Dublin.
2013 D.D.D (2.30 min), åemu ni emit a nopu ecno (11.09 min), Untitled (6.09 min), Folkets Hus Film Festival, curation Jonas Gidlund & Isak Göransson, Folkets Bio, Umeå, SWE.
2013 Becoming, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, ICE.
2011 Untitled (6.09 min), Video Screening at Live8, curated by Jennifer Cunningham and Sinead McCann, Galway, IRE.
2010 [REC], Selected Artists: Dominic Redfern, Phuttipong Aroonpheng, Lynda Devenney, Jennifer Cunningham, Ella Bertilsson, Emma Finucane & Emma Boyle, Vincent Sheridan, Black Church Print Studio Gallery,
2009 Untitled (6.09 min), Visual Deflections, curated by Eleanor Lawler and Katherine Nolan, London, Corbet Place, London, UK.
2009 Untitled (6. 09 min), Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, SWE.
2009 Untitled (6. 09 min), Projector, curated by Lee Walsh, Four Gallery, Dublin, IRE.
Other Projects
2019 BODY TALK / SKIN TAGS, Black Church Print Studios {Public} Cabinet, collaboration with Austin Hearne, Dublin, IRE.
2018 Repeal Mobile, political rally, Ella Bertilsson, Michelle Hall & Sophie Lynch, Dublin, IRE.
2016 Have you see me? Black Church Print Studio’s {Public} Cabinet, Dublin, IRE.
2015 Protector of the Interspace, shop front installation at Frawleys Department Store, Ella Bertilsson & Michelle Hall, NCAD MFA, Dublin, IRE.
2013 Far from here, Black Church Print Studio’s {Public} Cabinet, Dublin, IRE.
Selected Media
The Irish Times Magazine, 50 for the Future, 4 January 2025.
VAN, The Visual Artist’s News Sheet, Interview with Michael Hill, issue Oct/Sept.
Publication; Catalytic Intersections on Irish Artists' Moving Images, Irish Artists’ Film Index, 2021.
FSAS, File Note |||, Uncanny Comrades: Ella Bertilsson & Ulla Juske, Robert Herbert Mcclean, 2020.
RTE Culture, Buttered Up: Artist Aine Phillips On the Dark Side of Domesticity, 6 Mar 2020.
The Visual Artists’ News Sheet Online, Buttered Up, Katherine Nolan, 3 May, 2020.
Totally Dublin, Games for Artists and Non-Artists, (GFANA), Brendan Fox, 25 Aug 2020.
Visual Artists Ireland, On Failure and Ritual - Child Naming Ceremony discusses the Origins of their Artist Collective, Joanne Laws, issue Jan/Feb 2020.
Draíocht Visual Art News, Des Kenny, 9th July 2018.
The Irish Sun, Abortion referendum: Ireland votes to repeal Eighth Amendment by 2-1 majority as result confirmed, Leah McDonald, 26th May, 2018.
The Evening Herald, Jubilant celebrations break out in Ireland after landslide vote to repeal strict abortion ban, Tom Powell, 26th May, 2018.
The Guardian, Ireland says 'Yes' to abortion reform in pictures Prochoice campaigners celebrate after Ireland votes to liberalise abortion law, News Agencies, 26th May, 2018.
Estonian Cultural Weekly, Marika Agu, SIRP, 23th March 2018.
Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RUV, Radio Culture News, 22nd September 2016.
Billion Journal, Hut Life, James Merrigan, 9th of December 2015.
The Irish Times, Art Review, Aidan Dunne, 16th June 2015.
Billion Journal, Shit List, James Merrigan, 18th of June 2015.
The Visual Artists News Sheet, Far from Here, July/Aug 2013.
Västerbottens Kuriren, Margareta Norman, 20th of January, 2010.
Västerbottens Folkblad, Davis Sandsröm, 13th of January, 2010.
References:
Mark O’Gorman, Gallery Curator, The Complex Dublin: mark.ogorman {at }thecomplex.ie
The Complex, 21-25 Arran St E, Smithfield, Dublin 7.