Naiya Ellis-Woodward

Naiya Ellis-Woodward (b. 2003, Watford) treats living materials as active co-agents in her installations, hovering at an edge of sight where places are sensed before they are fully seen, images are misremembered, and boundaries slip in and out of view. Her practice spans across installation, textiles, moving image, and writing. Growing up on a narrowboat on British canals informs Naiya’s sensitivity to fluctuating watery systems and sets the rhythms of her making: field margins, floodplains behind carparks, not quite rural not quite urban.  Often using satellite imagery as a point of departure, she gathers together a bricolage of organic and petrochemical materials that emulates the natural as if it were an artefact that has been excavated or inherited. 

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