Ellie is a practice-based PhD student based in the School of Art. 

Her research adopts a theoretical, practical and place-based methodology to ask how artistic approaches can facilitate affective encounters with more-than-human temporalities and agency, specific to rainforest habitats along Britain’s west coast. By developing art-based approaches to multispecies ethnography, she also examines ethical and temporal questions arising from more-than-human creative collaboration, reflecting on object-based conservation interventions specific to these habitats. By translating and migrating wider environmental humanities, place-based and multispecies approaches to creative methodologies, including artist fieldwork, sound recording, artist moving image, photography and site-responsive sculpture, Ellie aims to investigate how artistic methods can amplify awareness of multispecies temporalities and how these are negotiated by human users within these rare habitats. 

Ellie is a postgraduate co-convenor of the cross-college Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network PhD Lab and is part of the Humanimal Kind research network at ECA. In May, Ellie co-organised a Student Experience Grant-awarded field trip for EEHN PhD Lab members to Cove Park and her paper Arboreal Intimacies: vibrating bodies, sharing wounds, navigating across messy boundaries will be published in the sound art journal Row of Trees in late 2023. Ellie recently participated in the SGSAH/British Council Earth Scholarships programme and in the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities PhD Researcher programme: 'Planting the Humanities'.

Ellie received her MA in Contemporary Art Practice (Distinction) from ECA in 2020. She has exhibited her work in the UK and Iceland, with a Douglas Bader Grant and Creative Scotland Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (Creative Scotland) supporting a SÍM (The Association of Icelandic Artists) residency in Reykjavík in 2021. Ellie has undertaken training at ASCUS Lab at Summerhall, Stills Gallery and Leith School of Art. She previously completed an undergraduate MA in English at the University of St Andrews, which supported her studies in creative writing and literature and ecology.