School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Edwina Ellis

Born: 1946, Australia, Sydney

Printmaker and designer. Studied jewellery design at the National Art School, Sydney, 1963-69, before moving to London in 1972 where she attended John Cass College, 1972-73. Ellis initially worked as a jeweller but soon turned to wood engraving attending Simon Brett’s summer schools in 1981 and 1983. She specialises in multiblock colour engravings of landscapes, gardens and architecture inspired by her experiences of Wales, Australia, India, Africa and Arabia. In 2003 she was awarded a Royal Mint commisssion for her linocut designs for the reverse sides of four one pound coins. Ellis’s designs of the Forth, Menai, Gateshead and Egyptian Arch bridges were issued by the Mint between 2004 and 2007. She has also received design commissions for posters for London Transport and a new mast head for The Times newspaper. In 1992 she moved to Ystrad Meurig, Wales, and later undertook a PhD Art Practice at Aberystwyth University where she continues to teach as a visiting lecturer. Her recent work has become more abstract and revolves around her development of a new modular system of printing. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers in 1985 and has been a long-standing member of the Society of Wood Engravers

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Arab Lock PR2909 Prints

China Lock PR2907 Prints

India Lock PR2908 Prints



 
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