Ellie Niblock (b. 1993) is an Irish artist living and working in London and is an MA Fine Art graduate from Central Saint Martins. She completed a BA Hons in Textile Art, Design and Fashion in 2015.

She has worked with venues such as Yorkshire Sculpture Park, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The Mark Rothko Centre.

Ellie’s sculptural work is part of The Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s permanent collection.

In 2021, she was a participant on Sky Arts television programme ‘Landmark’ producing a large-scale public art installation.

Ellie is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work combines sculpture and digital technologies, investigating the relationship between the physical and the digital worlds and how they co-exist. She navigates the intricate landscapes of memory, emotion, and experience. Through sculpture and digital technologies, she creates augmented versions of her memories and thoughts. Her practice embodies the tension between the familiar and the unknown, blending personal memories with altered interpretations.

The sculptures serve as portals of reminiscence, merging real memories with computer-generated ones—some of which may have once been tangible, while others are entirely new—simulating a dialogue between the brain and the hard drive.

The vivid physical and digital distortions exaggerate and visualize the invisible, creating heightened, euphoric depictions of recollections and mixed realities. Ellie’s works are simultaneously seductive and repellent, and she revels in the fine line between these sensations. Materials such as spongy foams and slippery silicones are used to amplify this tension.

Ellie Niblock (b.1993)

Education 

2018- 2020 University Of The Arts London Central Saint Martins- MA Fine Art

2012-2015 University Of Ulster- Textile Art, Design And Fashion

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Visualeyes - Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2022 Augment - 87 Gallery

2017 Reading Between The Lines - Framewerk Gallery

2016-2017 Absorption - Ards Art Centre

2016 Entice, Repel? The Crescent Arts Centre

Residencies

2022 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2021 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2020 @Digitalartistresidency Online Collaborative Residency

2020 Incubator Residency With Slash Arts, Harwich

2020 Connect Me Residency With The Arab British Centre And British Council

2017 The Mark Rothko Centre, Latvia

2017 DIVA Residency, Electric Picnic

2016 Art Ichol, India (Supported By Arts Council Of Northern Ireland And British Council)

Commissions

2021 Contestant On ‘Landmark’ On Sky Arts

2021 ‘Aquavate’ Installation On The Maritime Mile, Titanic Quarter, Supported By Belfast City Council

2021 ‘Plug In Panorama’ Digital Artwork In Collaboration With Kaleidoscope Festival, Supported By Bank Of Ireland Together Arts Fund

2021 Digital Commission With WheelWorks, Belfast

2021 The Artists Emergency Programme Commission, The Arts Council Of Northern Ireland

2019 Body Parts AHRC Exhibition, Asia House, London

2018 Sculpture For Scoil An Droichid School, Belfast

2018-2022 Commission For Electric Picnic Festival, Ireland

2017 Live Art Performance For Culture Night Belfast In Collaboration With Audiences NI

Exhibitions

2024 Buffer, The Art House, Georgia

2024 ART COLLECTIVE: From The One To The Many, Saatchi Gallery, London

2024 Nectar, Hypha Studios X Thin Red Lion, London

2024 Hot In Here, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London

2024 Shelf Life, Hartslane Gallery, London

2024 Rotor, The Louvre, Paris,

2023 Superposition, Cube In Context Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023 Melt, Hypha Studios X Creative Land Trust, Euston Tower, London

2023 On Purple, London Art Collective, Piccadilly, London

2023 Scary Biscuits, Crypt Gallery, London

2023 In-Flux, Regents Canal, London

2023 Nineteen, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London

2023 Thin Red Lion X Hypha Studios, Farringdon, London

2023 The Sky Is Low And The Ground Is High, Greatorex Street Gallery London

2023 Nightlife, Loose Screws, E2 London

2022 Abstract, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Covent Garden

2022 Commercial Exhibition At The Lighterman, Granary Square

2021 Assets, Dublin City Centre

2021 Finally, Ugly Duck, London

2021 The Possibilities Of Touch, Safehouse 1 & 2, London

2020-2021 Open2020, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead

2020 Digital Art Month, Miami, USA

2020 QR Code Art Trail, Bloomers Magazine, Cork, Ireland

2020 ‘Do Knot With ‘Er’’ Lux Moving Image Gallery, London

2020 ‘Together’, Slash Arts, Essex

2020 ‘Portal1.0’, Online

2020 ‘Belongings’, APT Gallery, London

2019 Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, London

2019 Group Show, Victoria And Albert Museum, London

2019 ‘Defiance Of Dissent’, Kingsland Road, London

2019 ‘Vanishing Point: The Curation And Preservation Of Virtual Reality’, Tate, V&A Museum And British Film Institute, London

2019 ‘Challenging Space’, Chelsea College Of Arts, London

2019 Tate Exchange VR Interactive Installation, Tate Modern, London

2019 Performer For ‘Murmurations’ By Emma Louise Moore, Lethaby Gallery, London

2018 ‘Form Sculpture’ Exhibition, Bangor Castle Walled Garden 

2017 Destination C.Q Window Exhibition/ Late Night Art Belfast, PS Squared Gallery

2016 Enniskillen Visual Arts Open, Fermanagh 

2016 ‘Form, Function And Food’, R-Space Gallery, Lisburn 

2016­­ ‘The Art Of Craft’, The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh

2014 ‘Down But Not Out’, Titanic Building, Belfast

Awards

2020 Recipient Of The IERP Fund, Arts Council Of Northern Ireland

2018 Recipient Of The Support For The Individual Artist Award, The Arts Council Of Northern Ireland

2017 Recipient Of The Support For The Individual Artist Award, The Arts Council Of Northern Ireland

2017 Recipient Of Travel Award, The Arts Council Of Northern Ireland

2016 Artist Residency To Art Ichol, India, Supported By The Arts Council Of Northern Ireland And British Council

Talks

2020 Panellist For Al Balad Residency, Ministry Of Culture, Saudi Arabia (Online)

2020 ‘How Digital Art Encourages Connectivity Across Borders’, Agora Digital Art (Online)

2020 ConnectME Digital Residency Artist Talk, Arab British Centre & The British Council (Online)

2017 ‘Going Against The Grain’ Blick Studios, Belfast

Shortlisted

2020 Longlisted For Jerwood Artfund Makers Open

2020 Shortlisted For The Cass Art Prize

2020 Shortlisted For Mead Awards, Central Saint Martins

2018 Shortlisted For QEST Educational Scholarship

Press

2024

https://mater.digital/stories/ellie-niblock-on/

2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/Arts/Design/Hypha-Studios-Free-Artist-Space.html

https://www.theguardian.com/Culture/2023/Jan/07/Going-Out-Staying-In-Complete-Guide-To-This-Weeks-Entertainment

2022

https://thewickculture.com/Feature-Sculptor-Ellie-Niblock%EF%BF%BC/

https://www.livingnorth.com/Article/All-Non-Festive-Events-Across-Yorkshire-December

2021

https://artuk.org/Discover/Stories/Landmark-On-Sky-Arts-Northern-Ireland

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/News/Northern-Ireland/Down/Three-Ni-Artists-Go-Head-To-Head-For-The-Chance-To-Create-New-Piece-Of-Public-Art-40913276.Html

https://visitarmagh.com/Whatson/Summer-Sculpture-Garden-Exhibition/

https://ysp.org.uk/Visiting/Ellie-Niblock

https://www.ccadld.org/News/Cca-Mentoring-Participants-Announced

2020

https://www.arts.ac.uk/Study-At-Ual/Postgraduate-Study/Postgraduate-Community/Stories/Successful-Aer-Ellie-Niblock

https://www.thenationalnews.com/Arts-Culture/Arab-British-Centre-Launches-Digital-Course-For-Gulf-And-British-Creatives-1.1110512

https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/Culture/Art/Meet-The-Gulf-Artists-Participating-In-This-International-Digital-Residency

https://nireland.britishcouncil.org/About/Press/Northern-Ireland-Artist-Chosen-International-Digital-Arts-Residency

https://www.britishcouncil.org/Voices-Magazine/How-Create-Art-Someone-Different-Continent

https://www.thegallyry.com/Post/Digital-Artist-Ellie-Niblock-On-Entering-The-Uncertain-Art-World

2019

https://stories.bournemouth.ac.uk/Bodyparts-Exhibition/Index.html

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/News/2019-06-21/Unique-Art-Exhibition-Based-Bournemouth-University-Research-Due-Open-London-July

https://www.bath.ac.uk/Announcements/Research-Challenges-Perceptions-Of-Disability-At-Exhibition/

2018

https://www.leinsterexpress.ie/News/Arts-Culture-Entertainment/312680/Creatives-Called-To-Apply-For-Electric-Picnic-S-Artist-In-Residence-Programme.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/Culture/Art-And-Design/Visual-Art/Electric-Picnic-Announces-5-000-Visual-Arts-Bursary-For-2018-Festival-1.3490852

2017

https://wewillthrive.co.uk/Resources/Blogs/Culture-Night-The-Artist-And-The-Audience

https://www.blickstudios.org/Blog-Posts/Share-6-Going-Against-The-Grain/

2016

https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/Features/Ten-Payday-Weekend-Ideas

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/Entertainment/Theatre-Arts/Rostrevor-Inspires-Magical-Art-35315851.Html

http://artscouncil-Ni.org/Blog/An-Artist-In-India-Ellie-Niblock

http://www.belfastvibe.com/Big-Stories/Budding-Young-Belfast-Artist-Scoops-Arts-Residency-In-India/