• Mend: New Drawings Planthouse Sept. 9-Oct.14, 2023
    2023

    Untitled 57, 2023 44″ W x 60 “H, ink and collage on paper, Photo by Etienne Frossard Mend-to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole or sound by repairing, to set right, make better, to progress toward recovery. The drawings in …

  • New Leaf Drawings
    2020
  • Botany and Landscape
    2017

    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 …

  • Rome drawings
    2013

    This series of drawings were generated while in Rome from January 2013 – June 2013, while serving as the Chief Critic for the European Honors program of RISD.

  • Fastforwardfossil;Part2, Drawings
    2009

    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.

  • Fastforwardfossil Drawings
    2008

    Fastforwardfossil Drawings, 2007-8 exhibited with Fastforwardfossil; Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2009

  • Drawings 2007-8
    2007

    Drawings, 2007-8

  • Drawings 2003-5
    2003

    Drawings 2003-5

  • Drawings 2001-3
    2001

    Drawings 2001-3