About Ella Bendrups
Portrait by Lara Cooper for Vege Threads
Ella Bendrups is an emerging ceramic artist who creates innate forms refined for a modern context. Ella’s practice explores ancient clay and stone artefacts and their ability to transcend the times and cultures in which they were created. She embraces the expressive nature of hand building, pinching, coiling and carving clay to highlight the maker’s touch.
With a background in styling supported by studies in Communication Design and Interior Design and Decoration at RMIT University, Ella began social ceramics classes in late 2015 before progressing to a self-led explorative practice. Ella hand builds each of her pieces in a small home studio in Naarm’s/Melbourne’s inner North.
Ella is available to lead ceramics workshops in Naarm/Melbourne, intersate and abroad.
For all enquiries please get in touch by emailing me at studio@ellabendrups.com
Interviews:
Reason for Being 2022
In Conversation: Modern Times 2021
The Design Files 2017
CV
Ella Bendrups
Born 1989, Melbourne
Education
2013 Diploma of Interior Design and Decoration, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC
2010 Bachelor of Communication Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC
RESIDENCies
2021 Guest Artist in Residence, Northcote Pottery Supplies, Melbourne, VIC
Makers is Residence (Virtual Residency), Craft Contemporary, Craft Victoria, VIC
SOLO Exhibitions
2022 Visible Vapour, Vitrine at Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Artist in Focus: Domestic Talisman, Modern Times, Melbourne, VIC
Group Exhibitions
2021 Every Artist Ever, Stockroom, Kyneton, VIC
2020 Transcendence, Melbourne Design Week 2020, Modern Times, Melbourne, VIC
Talismans, Rafts, Mementos, Modern Times, Melbourne, VIC
Secret Garden, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2019 Form and Assemble, Craft Cubed Festival, Bisque Studios, Northcote, VIC
Make or Break, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2018 Relics Today, Modern Times, Melbourne, VIC
Vase & Vessel, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, NSW
