ellen :)

🩸𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏💧 Featuring @theellenwarner ❤️ “i didn’t pick the daechu” explores the intersections of queer identity, Koreanness, and familial relationships. Jujubes or daechu are used in traditional Korean wedding rituals and doljabi fortune telling, acting as a sign that an individual will go on to have many sons. Here, the daechu is a symbol of Korean queerness, and the difficulties Ellen Warner has faced in balancing their queer identity with their mother’s expectations as her only child. This zine explores how their experiences of queerness and Korean heritage complicate one another, especially as someone who grew up in rural England with limited access to Korean culture. Fluctuating between installation, photography and moving image, Ellen’s work explores how our identities are shaped by the places and cultures we inhabit. Moments of gentle interiority interweave with the quiet details of place, giving rise to handmade publications, site-specific installations, short films and interactive hypertexts. Their work also explores the points of rupture and connection that arise in navigating Korean diasporic heritage, examining how identities and culture are curated, and notions of “authenticity”. Take a closer look at Ellen’s works on familial guilt in our new publication “Bound by Blood/ Water”, launching on 16 Jan 2026 at The People’s Letters in London. 🧽🛋️⏰ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #artistofinstagram #smallpress #independentpublishing #art #fineart

It’s the closing day of ‘a tender contemplation on the act of observing’ this Friday the 12th December! Come see the show before we close 🪞 🪟 “Our exhibition tells scattered stories of memories, rituals and grief through a visceral lens. These themes emerge in glimpses and the shadows of the space. This show demands time to meditate; it asks us to contemplate our ties to the past and how we shape the future. Translucency, reflections and tricks of the light appear to soften the gaze and create a space that interplays between materiality and sound. Moments reappear and disappear, stillness becomes intentional, and grief manifests as a vortex containing amorphous truths. The works in this exhibition serve as relics of the past and present, each formed as its own reflection of a window into a sacred time for the artist. We invite you to pause, connect and reflect alongside them. This is both a territory for challenging the act of remembering and a space to gather around the stories that have lingered through these potent portals.” 🩰🍃🕳️ Participating artists: ☆ Kai Yan Cheung @kaiyaniseed ☆ Camilla Dilshat @camilladilshat ☆ Sarah-Louise Davila @sarahlouisedav ☆ Felix Gibbons @flx_321 ☆ Henry Glover @hgglover ☆ Coral Harding @coralhardingart ☆ Semin Hong @saymeaningg ☆ Yaya Lo @yayarttt ☆ Mila Rae Sarabhai @mila.rae.n.s ☆ Iman Sidonie-Samuels @isidsam ☆ Julie Yuan @julilie.y Kindly supported by @hyphastudios and @wemakecamden

Opening times for our current exhibition ‘a tender contemplation on the act of observing’ 🐚 curated by @saradavid_art  @theellenwarner   Exhibiting Artists: ☆ Kai Yan Cheung @kaiyaniseed ☆ Camilla Dilshat @camilladilshat ☆ Sarah-Louise Davila @sarahlouisedav ☆ Felix Gibbons @flx_321 ☆ Henry Glover @hgglover ☆ Coral Harding @coralhardingart ☆ Semin Hong @saymeaningg ☆ Yaya Lo @yayarttt ☆ Mila Rae Sarabhai @mila.rae.n.s ☆ Iman Sidonie-Samuels @isidsam ☆ Julie Yuan @julilie.y Kindly supported by @hyphastudios  and @wemakecamden 📆 We’re open until 12th December

Some photos from our PV of a tender contemplation on the act of observing last week! 🕳️🪞🐚 curated by Sara & Ellen (@saradavid_art @theellenwarner ) We’re so pleased to have put this special show together! 🫂 Featuring artwork by these incredibly talented artists: ☆ Kai Yan Cheung @kaiyaniseed ☆ Camilla Dilshat @camilladilshat ☆ Sarah-Louise Davila @sarahlouisedav ☆ Felix Gibbons @flx_321 ☆ Henry Glover @hgglover ☆ Coral Harding @coralhardingart ☆ Semin Hong @saymeaningg ☆ Yaya Lo @yayarttt ☆ Mila Rae Sarabhai @mila.rae.n.s ☆ Iman Sidonie-Samuels @isidsam ☆ Julie Yuan @julilie.y Kindly supported by @hyphastudios and @wemakecamden 📆 We’re open until 12th December Thank you to the wonderful @stargazephotographer for the photographs! 📸

As part of our ongoing exhibition ‘a tender contemplation on the act of observing’ curated by Sara David and Ellen Warner. Join us on Wednesday, 3rd December, from 6:30-8 pm, as we screen five incredibly poignant moving image works by artist filmmakers in our gallery for one night only! RSVP via Link in our Bio! 🎟️ Our film night lineup includes: 🎞️ Still, In Motion | Dir. Hemali Khoosal (@hemalikhoosal ) Unfolding through the window of a moving train, sunlight filters through trees, flickering window reflections shift and reshape, drifting across changing landscapes, and words appear and disappear like thoughts. 🎞️ Bridge | Dir. Martha Burgin (@stoplookingatmyshirt ) The film explores solitude with its depiction of vast landscapes contrasted by images of cities, glimpses of domesticity and the boundary between the private and public sphere. Intimate shots inside the house contrast with the expansive spaces beyond it. 🎞️ We Are Not Ones Who Say Much | Dir. Soe-Myat Noe (@xoemyat ) This work is an emotional film exploring the filmmaker’s personal experience of undergoing treatment for cancer as a young adult, focusing on the communication and shared trauma between herself and her mother. 🎞️ and the night falling over us (like a home) | Dir. (yue)fei li (@yuefei___ ) At night, the city of London empties itself, leaving behind faint traces of life. A state of suspension, time becoming glacial and desire shimmers, the silence of catastrophe echoing. 🎞️ She Sells Shellfish | Dir. Lily Tiger Tonkin-Wells (@lilbobagginz ) The film is a collage of two Welsh women’s lives with those of the distant past. Archival footage meets contemporary black and white super 8, in a curious exploration of the female cockle gatherers of South Wales and the surprising secrets shellfish and seaweed hold for our oceans’ health. We’re thrilled to bring these talented emerging voices from the artist moving image scene under one roof! Hope to see you there! Love, Sara & Ellen :) There will be light snacks 🍿

We’re so proud to share that our show opens next week with a fantastic(!!!) lineup of artists🪞🐚🫴🏽✨ 📣 HYPHA PRESENTS -  ‘a tender contemplation on the act of observing’ Curated by Sara David & Ellen Warner (@saradavid_art & @theellenwarner ) 📍 2 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3LQ 🎟️ PV: 28th November, 6-9pm (Link in Bio!!) 💬 “Our exhibition tells scattered stories of memories, rituals and grief through a visceral lens. These themes emerge in glimpses and the shadows of the space. This show demands time to meditate; it asks us to contemplate our ties to the past and how we shape the future. Translucency, reflections and tricks of the light appear to soften the gaze and create a space that interplays between materiality and sound. Moments reappear and disappear, stillness becomes intentional, and grief manifests as a vortex containing amorphous truths. The works in this exhibition serve as relics of the past and present, each formed as its own reflection of a window into a sacred time for the artist. We invite you to pause, connect and reflect alongside them. This is both a territory for challenging the act of remembering and a space to gather around the stories that have lingered through these potent portals.” 🪟🍃🕳️ Participating artists: ☆ Kai Yan Cheung @kaiyaniseed ☆ Camilla Dilshat @camilladilshat ☆ Sarah-Louise Davila @sarahlouisedav ☆ Felix Gibbons @flx_321 ☆ Henry Glover @hgglover ☆ Coral Harding @coralhardingart ☆ Semin Hong @saymeaningg ☆ Yaya Lo @yayarttt ☆ Mila Rae Sarabhai @mila.rae.n.s ☆ Iman Sidonie-Samuels @isidsam ☆ Julie Yuan @julilie.y Kindly supported by @hyphastudios and @wemakecamden 📆 Open: 29th Nov - 12th December Private View: 28th November, 6-9pm with Events TBA poster design by @theellenwarner !! 🎨

more old art!

8 in 14: weird string, wool + varnish sculpture! v eva hesse inspired

8 in 14: twine, yarn + wool sculpture

8 in 14, paper + yarn sculpture

🖼 What Do We Become - on show at the Barbican until the 7th of May. @young.barbican @barbicancentre Very late post but I think I've just about recovered from frantically trying to put these paintings together! And I've finally had a chance to process what an amazing experience this was. Thank you to everyone involved, from the wonderful guest artists @saradavid_art @barbara.majek and Tomilola Olumide, to fellow artists @adasartislife @camilladilshat @toluelusade (i am in awe of your work!), and to @tobialexandrafalade for making this happen. The themes of this exhibition resonated so deeply with me and I'm so grateful for this. 📽 "Han Ah Reum (One Arm Full of Groceries)" Digital film, 9 minutes.   🎨 "배 in an English garden shed" 140cm  ×  80cm Korean hanji paper, white acrylic paint, ink and bleach.  "From: Bongeunsa-ro, Seoul 100cm  × 70cm" Oil, acrylic, ink and bleach on chiffon, wooden branch.  "light them not with the rays of the sun" 140cm × 80cm  Korean hanji paper, acrylic, ink, bleach, cyanotype, salt crystals, crackle medium, lotus fibres and wooden branch.  (last slide is the photo/memory/memento that has been sitting in my mind since going to Korea, and ended up becoming the seed for half of this work.) For umma + appa, for all their love.

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