- Bird’s Eye2026
Carrier, 2025, 44″ x 60″, ink and collage on paper, Photo Etienne Frossard “Bird’s Eye” includes 10 years of sculptures and drawings which trace our personal relationship to the ongoing crisis of climate change and global warming. Including intricate d …
- Portraits2024
Ellen Driscoll’s intimate and probing self-portraits create intricate matrices that interlace her inner life with maps, charts, and images of an outer world undergoing constant change. While recovering from a rare brain tumor that initially rendered he …
- Re-Rooted2024
Plants have been on the earth much longer than we have. As the magnitude of environmental challenges that we face globally becomes more urgent, my drawings focus close attention on the quiet work that some plants do to repair toxins, in a process known …
- Mend2023
Mend These drawings emerged from my sense of interconnectedness between my own individual recovery from a serious medical crisis and the larger environmental crisis brought on by global warming. My own slow healing finds resonance and hope in the work …
- Spirit Familiar2023
15″W x 15″H ink on paper Part of the “Murmuration” exhibition at the University of Virginia, 2023, curated by Elizabeth Schoyer, exhibited with “Sojourner”.
- Botany and Landscape2017
Slipstream In Ellen Driscoll’s recent work, plants are drawn into allegorical tableaux that speak to environmental change and adaptation. Some of the plants in her herbarium are used for remediation of toxins in soil, such as the sunflower which is use …
- Fastforwardfossil;Part2, Drawings2009
Fastforwardfossil; Part 2, Drawings, 2009 exhibited at Smack Mellon, 2009 These drawings are based on a close study of the inner workings of Ireland’s only oil refinery in Whitegate, which I had access to in August 2009 through the Sirius Art Centre residency. By using shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.
