Interested in the productive, intrinsic inadequacies of recording transient experience, her paintings are intended as imperfect ‘translations’ of periods of time.
Ella Williams is an Edinburgh based painter and recent graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. Interested in visual storytelling practices, her work predominantly approaches how places and transitory experiences can be documented through paint, experimenting with materiality and abstraction. Specialising in large scale narrative works her practice is influenced by diaristic and archival processes, intending to visualise memory as a cognitive archive. Interested in the productive, intrinsic inadequacies of recording transient experience, her paintings are intended as imperfect ‘translations’ of periods of time. Constructed from collated observational records, visual partialities become anchors into intangible, expansive swathes of time. Titled ‘Dwelling’ her current series transfers these unruly mental records of experience into the visual and material, exploring how transitory observations can be narrativised through visual storytelling practices. The resulting works are imagined as surreal, liminal, and latently inaccessible environments, illustrative of non-linear
time periods. Considering memory itself as a subliminal act of storytelling, recalling and reshaping the past, the viewer
is welcomed to decipher their own narratives from these encoded compositions.