Matilde Araoz Ellis


Statement

My current practice explores spaces that exist in a fragile balance, interconnected by economic histories and geopolitics of mining. I have been looking at storytelling as a coping mechanism for miners in the context of the dangerous working conditions of both Cornish and Bolivian tin mines and the entanglement of these stories with the dependency of the workers on the mines.

A crucial part of my creative process has been retelling and reimagining stories: historically, mythically and speculatively. Through these processes the
work weaves through existing folklore and collaging of my reimagination of
the stories to make sense of unknowable landscapes.

                                       
    Biography

    Matilde Araoz Ellis (b.1996) is an Anglo-Bolivian artist based in London. She is soon to be graduating from the MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University and received her undergraduate degree in photography in Falmouth University in 2018 as well as completing the Graduate Diploma in Art from Goldsmiths University in 2022. Following the MFA she will return to Bolivia as well as visiting Chile, participating in residencies to continue her current research.


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    Film Still I, 2024
    Film Still II, 2024
    Film Still III, 2024
    Drill Inversion in Granite, jesmonite and steel, 2023
    Lithium Battery, glazed clay from Treleavour Mine, 2023

    Speculative Excavations, performance lecture, 2023