Ellie Hannon

Ellie is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Newcastle NSW who works across exhibitions, public art and community-engaged projects. These process-led actions fuel her visual account presenting personal and political issues in relation to place. Informed through her involvement with community art projects, and environmental and social justice communities, Hannon makes art to connect with a sense of place that prioritises relationship building and reparation–internal and external, self and environment, the simple and complex. Through drawing, painting, textiles and installation, Hannon’s works uncover new methods of relational inquiry, presenting collective stories of human and non-human ecologies that propose themes of hopefulness, autonomy, trust, equity, respect, interdependence, and the contrasting realities that often sit alongside these impressions. 

Since completing her Bachelor of Fine Art at Newcastle University in 2009, Hannon has exhibited with galleries locally and nationally around Australia, including, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2022, 2017), The Lock-Up, Newcastle (2024, 2018), Marfa Gallery, Melbourne (2019), Museum of Art and Culture Yapang, Lake Macquarie (2024), and is represented by Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne. Hannon was a finalist in the biannual Alice Springs Art Prize at the Araluen Art Centre (2024, 2022).