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All We Ever Have Is Right Now 2025
The Delirium Horns 2025
AI CHINOISERIE 2024
Rush Hour Every Hour (Peak Times) 2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panel 152 × 91 × 5 cm
Monster clay, fake hair, liquid latex Dementions Variable
Acrylic plate 50 × 75 × 2 cm
Acrylic paint, watercolour, oil pastel, pen and digital illustration on canvas 80 × 80 cm
Ellen Zhu
Ellis Lewis-Dragstra ellis_l.d
Elizabeth Rose lizzirose29
Dr Ellen Zhu is an artist and designer of Chinese descent raised in Australia. Combining Eastern philosophical thought with Western artistic practice, Dr Zhu creates mixed-media installations, jewellery and interdisciplinary works that examine Chinoiserie as a site of cultural hybridity. Through this practice, Dr Zhu explores how Eastern and Western identities influence and reshape one another, inviting reflection on the shifting boundaries of culture and tradition. AI CHINOISERIE reimagines the 17th-century Chinoiserie style, when Western artists replicated Chinese export goods without direct contact. This historical imitation mirrors artificial intelligence, which synthesises datasets of Chinese art to generate new forms. AI-generated vases are dissected and reassembled into intricate, puzzle-like installations merging cultural history with digital speculation, suggesting alternative traditions and blurring boundaries between East and West, past and present, craft and code.
Ellis Lewis-Dragstra is a mixed-media artist based in London whose practice blends Afro-surrealism, social commentary and lived experience. Working across watercolour, oil pastel, photography and digital illustration, Lewis-Dragstra explores identity, humour, power and the human condition. Drawing from experiences of dyslexia and exclusion from formal education, the work questions societal norms, celebrates culture and community and challenges artistic elitism. The work unfolds as a visual journal created during a period of personal transition, balancing self-doubt with hope. Rooted in Afro-surrealism, it transforms conversations with friends, community and private reflection into a language that reimagines London as both a global microcosm and a paradox: diverse yet often neglectful of those who sustain it. Through layered symbolism, the piece explores Black identity, resilience, migration and the chaotic rhythms of life in a capitalist city obsessed with speed and consumption.
Elizabeth Rose is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, set design and prosthetics. Combining sculpture, writing and movement, Rose creates surreal ecosystems and fictional beings that fuse mythic and microscopic forms. Through props, performance and installation, the practice imagines archaeological fictions and altered spaces that question how creatures, matter and feeling coexist within speculative worlds. The Delirium Horns draw inspiration from unicorn and narwhal horns, referencing the way societies once combined animal bones from across the world to construct new mythic beings. These horns exist as artefacts that hover between fiction and reality, inhabiting both the walls and the imagined worlds the work conjures.
Eleanor Cowell eljoart
Eleanor Cowell is a London-based artist whose abstract oil paintings explore the interplay between digital culture, memory and art history. Cowell’s contrasting painterly language reflects the diversity and conflicts inherent in modern communication, layering traditional oil techniques with symbols and gestures. All We Ever Have Is Right Now compiles sensory, observational and emotional responses to the landscape. The gestural forms were created after meditation, produced blindly to imitate the body’s underlying rhythms.
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