Ella Dawson, a local multidisciplinary artist exploring ideas of human existence and experience, exhibits her wide range of contemporary work at the Globe Arts Summer Exhibition 2021. Ella’s work contemplates ideas such as matter, materiality, time, duration, and spatiality, while working intuitively with textile and colour.

Ella expertly develops her own imagery and language of colour through sustained and varied experimental resulting in an ambitious and skilfully produced body of work. Ella combines her affinity of textiles and paint whilst always including her love of drawing and mark making.

A former Greenhead College student, Ella graduated from Newcastle University in June 2019 with a BA honours degree in Fine Art. She also studied at RMIT, Melbourne for 6 months in 2018 which she found inspiring and transformational in the progression of her work.

In 2019, shortly after graduating, Ella was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Although Ella had to undergo two years of gruelling treatment, much of it in hospital, Ella was determined to continue to grow and develop as an artist and follow her passion.

Ella moved into her own art studio in Slaithwaite and launched her own art website in 2020, elladawsonartist.co.uk. The website displays her work and many commissions she produced for clients throughout the UK.

Sadly, Ella’s leukaemia progressed rapidly in 2021 exhausting all possible and experimental treatments and Ella passed away in July 2021 at the age of 24 years old.

Ella was truly inspiration, a beautiful person inside and out with a warm heart and even warmer smile. She loved life and was grateful for every day. She touched and inspired everyone she met and was determined never to let cancer define who she was. In that she succeeded.

Despite increasing illness and a dire prognosis, Ella continued to produce outstanding art right up to the very end. As she was making art Ella often listened to music and, remarkably, only two weeks before she died, Ella produced a Spotify playlist which she entitled ‘My Life is Amazing…” reflecting her gratitude for life.

In tribute to a wonderful person and flourishing artist and in her own words - My Life is Amazing… Ella Dawson.

For the last 2 years Ella has been donating proceeds of her art sales to Blood Cancer charities as well as raising awareness of Luekeamia to help others. Ella’s family will continue her work in supporting young people with Acute Leukeamia through the Ella Dawson Foundation.

PRINTS OF ORIGINALS AVAILABLE ONLINE at www.elladawsonartist.co.uk.