Ellen Gillett is a visual artist and independent curator who creates animated and interactive installations that explore gesture, illusions of movement, and people's connection to place and their spaces. Her artistic practice involves drawing, stop-motion animation and digitally-created video imagery and often invites contribution or participation from audiences, blurring the lines between engagement, curation, and art-making.
She is Co-director and a founder of ZEST Collective, a group artists in Southampton who support each other and local communities through skills-sharing workshops, group exhibitions, and by sourcing external funding for projects and collaborative artworks. Ellen has regularly curated the collective's exhibitions and shaped the nature of collaborative, creative interventions in local community spaces.
Ellen is Arts and Cultural Leadership Coordinator at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).
