Ellie Berry

The Red Girls #3
2018
Photography/UV printing onto Alu-Dibond Composite Panel
30 x 40 cm. Mounted
Edition of 5
€250 Mounted

The Red Girls is part of an on-going research masters examining connection to the Irish landscape through walking. This series was made in reaction to an old Irish story the artist was told while walking through Offaly.

Fractured Landscapes #2
2018
Photography/UV printing onto Alu-Dibond Composite Panel
20 x 30 cm. Mounted
Edition of 10
€100 Mounted

Fractured Landscapes is part of an on-going research masters examining connection to the Irish landscape through walking. These images were created by the artist while contemplating the concept of a sense of place.

About the Artist

Ellie Berry is an artist and photographer currently based in Dublin working on a masters by research at IADT. Her work is focused on walking and a sense of place within the landscape.

“There is rarely silence while walking – hiking boots crunch through layers of leaves; breaths heave on the uphill stretches; backpacks gently, but relentlessly, creak as the weight shifts from shoulder to hip. Wind blows branches, rain pelts hoods. However, within this amiable cacophony, the most consistent noise machine would have to be one’s mind.

It can go unnoticed, the noise a mind can make . It disguises itself as to-do lists, and reminders for events you’ve forgotten to write down. But while your legs are burning, feet gently sliding in the boggy soil, your mind will keep talking to you. It builds elaborate plans for when the walking ends, or maybe dissects the language used on a single sign many miles back.

And then I look up, panting and with shaking knees. The photo forms in front of me, camera is raised to eye, and for that moment there is silence.”

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