Ellie Waters

Ellie Waters is a British born artist based between Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Northern England. Her practice is predominately grounded in photography with an interest in text, audio and video and how, when combined these elements can emotively portray a set of narratives.

Having emigrated to Aotearoa in her early teens, she went on to study Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury, completing her Post Graduate Diploma with distinction in Photography, in 2021. With her own history of emigration and re-settlement, her work often explores concepts of home, belonging and how we relate to the lands which we inhabit.

Being a recent returnee to her hometown of Littleborough, she has joined Ebor as an Associate Member at the beginning of a long term, social-documentary project on the posed demolition of ‘College Bank’, a series of seven, high-rise social housing blocks in the centre of Rochdale.

Alongside this project, she is working to digitalize her late grandfather's (M.J Burgess), archive of photographs. A fellow Rochdalian, Burgess's photographs inadvertently capture his working-class surroundings, documenting the built and social environments of 1960-90's Britain.

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