Dr Ella Barclay

Ella Barclay is a contemporary artist and academic. Working across installation, sculpture, performance, electronics and moving image, she maps the terrestrial aesthetics of network architecture and the politics of information hierarchies. Recent exhibitions include Unkempt Cognition, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2024), OpenHaus (2024) ZK/U Berlin, No Easy Answers (2023) Murray Art Museum, Stacks and Sleeves: A Posthuman Landscape, PomPom and LaneCove Galleries, Experimenta Make Sense, International Triennial of Media Art (2017-2020) National Tour, Curious and Curiouser, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (2018-19), Soft Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Western Sydney (2018), Light Geist, Fremantle Art Centre (2016-17), Bodies Go Wrong, Orgy Park, NY (2016), That Which Cannot Not Be, Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2016), Almost, Instant 42, Taipei (2016), I Had to Do It, UTS Art, Sydney (2016) and Elemental Phenomena, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2015). Her work resides in numerous government, institutional, corporate and private collections and she has been the recipient of several commissions, residencies, scholarships and awards. 

PhD University of Technology, Sydney; MSc. Design and Digital Media University of Edinburgh; B.Art Theory (hons) COFA UNSW, B.Arts UNSW