ellejayerose

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Name: ellejayerose
Age: 28
City: Northcote
Country: Australia

Joined: Mar 2008

Wollongong-bred, Melbourne-based, Contemporary Australian Mixed-Media Conceptual Artisan.

I tend to let the idea dictate the chosen media and aesthetic (also my subjective visual baggage). My often wearable work seats and swings somewhere between pop, personal and formal.

Wherever possible I attempt to utilise random, found n’ discarded objects/ conversation/ imagery/ text that seem to have a certain nostalgia and narrative history.

My system:

my Favourites consists of individual works i relish, laugh at, am taken by, am shocked by, inspired by…

my Watchlist is made up of artists with a multitude of works that intrigues, excites and challenges me…

many thanks to the RB people that inspire & support me:
most note-worthy include: ‘paul compton’, ‘paul ruiz’,
‘sanchezisdead’, ‘sylvia karall’, ‘nofrillsart’ & ‘rhys jones’

Favorite Music: (fickle subject to change)

Talking Heads, Tom Waits, The Witchhats, Radio Birdman, The Wipers, The Triffids, The Church, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Devo, The Go-betweens, The Stabs, The Drones, Frank Black, Blonde Redhead, P J Harvey,
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Order, The Birthday Party, Mclusky, Blondie, Joy Division, Iggy and the Stooges, The Dirty Three, Television, Gary Newman,
My Bloody Valentine, Pulp, TV on the Radio, Dance Contest, Ned Collette, The B52’s, The Fall, Beasts of Bourbon, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Big Heavy Stuff,
Not From There, Midnight Oil, Beck, Faith No More, Falco,
The Pixies, Hoodoo Goorus, Mental As Anything, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Cars, Stone Roses Calexico,
The Cramps, The Cure, The Kills, Louis XIV, Johnny Cash, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Gaslight Radio, The Pretenders, Kings of Leon, Lene Lovich, Verucca Salt, L7,
Budd, Neko Case, Gillian Welch, The Divynals,
The Nation Blue, Cosmic Psychos, Lou Reed, Dan Brodie and The Broken Arrows, Dinosaur Jr, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Shifter, The Lemonheads, The Mountain Goats, Mutiny, Mission of Burma, Bloc Party, Art Brut, Division of Laura Lee, Gentle Ben & his Sensitive Side, Big Maybelle Smith, Edith Piaf, Loretta Lynne, Millionaire, Flamin’ Groovies, Neil Young, A-ha, Ground Components, The Gun Club, Hank WilliamsI & III, The Instant, The Fireballs
Nancy Sinatra, Primus, Jarvis, The Cocteau Twins, The Knife, The Mark of Cain, Beck, Patsy Cline, Tumbleweed, Thumlock, Iron Butterfly, Porno For Pyros, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, Noir Desir, El Perro Del Ma, Nina Simone

Favorite Movies: (fickle subject to change)

The Lost Highway, The Big Lebowski, La Belle et la Bette, Fargo, Blue Velvet, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, Velvet Goldmine, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lost Boys, From Dusk Till Dawn, Vertigo, The Shining, Vincent, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Heat, Suspiria, Chopper, Lost In Translation, The Birds, A Clockwork Orange, Heavenly Creatures, Bliss, Magnolia, American Beauty, Amelie, Life is Beautiful, Dancer in the Dark, Kill Bill, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Virgin Suicides, The Goonies, Labyrinth, Raising Arizona, Brazil, The Dark Crystal, Ghost Busters, Gremlins, The Breakfast Club, Interview with a Vampire, Conan the Barbarian, Fallen, Cosi, Silence of the Lambs, Muriel’s Wedding, Vincent, Bringing Out The Dead, Brazil

Favorite Books: (fickle, subject to change):

The Picture of Dorian Grey
Of Mice and Men
The Orchid Thief
Tulipomania
Sex, Botany and Empire
Edgar Allen Poe Collection
Jitterbug Perfume
Grip: Faces in The Darkness…some are your family (the art of David Shrigley
The Big Book of Shrigley
Wall and Piece: The Graff Art of Banksy
The Wasp Factory
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
Catch 22
Stark
The Choirboys
anything by Spike Milligan
Animal Farm
The Monstrous Feminine
David Lynch – Snowmen