About Ellie Malin

Ellie Malin (b.1980) is a Melbourne based artist working in relief woodblock printing and painting. Her visceral artworks are made up of a language of bold geometries and chromatic compositions. Inspired by observations from life, she translates her ideas into an intuitive world of layered fields of colour echoing place and memory.

Ellie describes her work, as operating as though made of cellular memory. Through an introspective process she applies layer upon layer, purposely revealing and concealing information beneath the surface. Soft geometric forms resemble complex architectural constructs whilst also hinting towards patterns in nature. Colour and shape, light and dark culminate in compositions evoking memory of a time and space.

Ellie graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Monash University. She has been a finalist in numerous awards including The Senini Award at McClelland Gallery, the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award, and Banyule Works on Paper. Solo and group exhibitions include Australian Print Workshop, Modern Times, Megalo Gallery Canberra, Boom Gallery Geelong and Heide Museum of Modern Art. Her works are in public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.

Cirriculum Vitae
     
Education
2008 – Graduate Diploma Art Therapy, Latrobe University
2007 – Bachelor of Fine Art, Department of Printmaking, Monash University, Caulfield
2004 – Certificate IV of Visual Arts, Holmesglen Tafe, Melbourne

Exhibition Record

2022 – Boom Gallery, Night Marigold, solo exhibition, Geelong. 2021 – Modern Times, Radiant Dreams, group exhibition, Melbourne. 2021 – Boom Gallery, Internal Geometries, group exhibition, Geelong. 2020 – Modern Times, group exhibition, Melbourne. 2020 – Art Images Gallery, group exhibition, South Australia. 2020 – Boom Gallery, Marking Time, group exhibition, Geelong.
2019 – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Gorman: 10 years of collaborations exhibition, Melbourne.
2019 – Boom Gallery, Marking Time, group exhibition, Geelong.
2019 – Megalo Print Workshop and Gallery, Megalo Residencies: A Survey, Canberra.
2018 – Modern Times, Verdant Ground, solo exhibition, Melbourne.
2017 – Boom Gallery, Electric Earth, solo exhibition, Geelong.
2017 – Australian Print Workshop, Impressions, Melbourne.
2016 – Megalo Print Workshop and Gallery, Lucidus, solo exhibition, Canberra.
2016 – Modern Times, Old City, New World, solo exhibition, Melbourne.
2015 – Australian Print Workshop, group exhibition, Melbourne.
2015 – Boom Gallery, Illumine, solo exhibition, Geelong.
2014 – Australian Print Workshop, Impressions, Melbourne.
2014 – Boom Gallery, group exhibition, works on paper, Geelong.
2014 – Tacit Contemporary, group exhibition, printmaking, Melbourne.
2013 – Modern Times, Moonflower, solo exhibition, Melbourne.
2013 – Boom Gallery, Geelong, group exhibition, Geelong
2013 – Australian Print Workshop, Colour in Relief, Melbourne.
2013 – Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, printmaking, group exhibition, Melbourne.
2013 – Boom Gallery Geelong, group exhibition, Geelong.
2012 – Australian Print Workshop, group exhibition, Melbourne.
2012 – Melbourne GPO, True Self, Jacky Winter collaborative group exhibition, Melbourne.
2012 – Boom Gallery, Works On Paper, group exhibition, Geelong.

Award Exhibitions
2015 – Banyule, Drawing and Printmaking Awards, finalist
2013 – Banyule, Drawing and Printmaking Awards, finalist
2012 – Swan Hill print and drawing acquisitive awards 2012, finalist
2007 – Monash University, graduate exhibition, Award in Excellence recipient, Melbourne
2006 – McClelland Gallery, ‘The Mary and Lou Senini Art Award 2006’, Painting and Printmaking, finalist

Residencies
2015 – Megalo Print Workshop, Canberra, March – April
2014 – Art Vault, Mildura, - April

Collections
2015 – National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Collaborations
2019 – Gorman clothing, world wide, Feb
2018 – Designtex and Crypton, U.S.A
2018 – Anthropology, U.S.A
2014 – Aesop and Gertrude St Projection Festival – installation, June
2014 – Hunting For George Collective, Nov
2013 – Gorman clothing, Australia wide, Feb

Publications
2017 – The Sunday Age, May 21
2016 – The Design Files, May
2016 – Real Living, February issue
2015 – Daily Imprint, November
2015 – Studio Home, June
2015 – Inside OUT Australia, April issue
2014 – Inside OUT Australia, spring issue
2013 – ELLE Decoration Mexico, autumn
2013 – The Drawer – drawing journal, France
2013 – ELLE Decoration, UK, July
2013 – ELLE Australia, November