Ellen Ferrier

Ellen Ferrier is a multidisciplinary installation artist based in Portland NSW. Her practice is one of fervent material exploration and co-creation. Her ‘material collaborators’ are regenerative and reclaimed, dynamic and agential, each carrying its own temporality, proclivities, and ancestral wisdom. Working across sculpture and installation, Ferrier draws on a diverse range of processes from pre-industrial crafts to emergent bio-technologies, imagining speculative futures grounded in an ethics of care, embodied curiosity and multi-species kinship.

Ferrier holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Burren College of Art, Ireland, and a Bachelor of Interior Architecture from UNSW, Sydney. From November 2025, she will be partaking in a four-month textile residency at Det Vilde Spinderi, Denmark. She is a recipient of the Ian Potter Fellowship (2025) and previously the Windmill Trust Scholarship (2023). Ferrier has exhibited at Grafton Regional Gallery (2025), Lone Goat Gallery (2025), Cementa Festival (2024) and Delmar Gallery (2022), and has a permanent public artwork in Mullumbimby, NSW (2019).