ellejayerose
Profile
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
Groups
ellejayerose is a member of Agro-Tees, All Things Poetic, Prose, Philosophical., Alternative Process Photography, Anticonsumerism, Art from the Workplace, Atheism, Back In Black, Blast from the Past, Cartoon Paddock, Challenge Café, Childhood, Clever Designs, Collaboral Damage, Cute-n-Creepy, Designers United, Digital Modern Portraiture, Domestic Art - Home is Where the Art Is, Drawn to Cotton- Art on T-shirts, Everyday Life, Experimental, Fashion and Editorial Photography, Food for Thought, Graphic Arts, Hardcore Punk, Have Your Say on TShirts, Heart Art, Humour Captured, I ♥ Patterns, In the Pink, Japanfluence, Let There Be Rock!, Love & Romance , Masterpiece: Clothing, Melbourne & Victoria, Musical Art, Nerds Unite, Nostalgic Art and Photography, Pinup, Pop Art, Rockabilly, Seachanges, Self Portrait, Shoes, Simple Witty Shirts, StreetArt, Tea and Chairs, The Sensual Word, The Two Of Us, The Urban Environment, Typography, Vibrant Plants, We Rock: Musical Instrument Art, Wedding Illustrations, Woman Appreciation, Writers' Market and Yellow Fever.
Journal Entries
'ellejayerose' matyrs herself for the sake of photographic collaboration
Posted about 1 month ago, 7 comments so far.
Eco-Awareness - Artists Taking responsibility for Their Arts Practice
Posted 2 months ago, 3 comments so far.
pays to read the small print :)
Posted 2 months ago, 3 comments so far.
win an exhibition
Posted 2 months ago, 11 comments so far.
rosecam
Posted 3 months ago, 7 comments so far.
Observation #3
Posted 3 months ago, 1 comment so far.
Observation #2
Posted 3 months ago, 1 comment so far.
Observations #1
Posted 3 months ago, 1 comment so far.
My Challenge Cafe Comp Entry: 'Pictures of Phones that Never Answer my Calls'
Posted 4 months ago, 2 comments so far.
R.I.P Laptop
Posted 4 months ago, 5 comments so far.
Clothing
Writing
Red Wine Blood Pump
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I wonder if God is waiting till visiting hours to come get me
'Enough Poison'
Interrupted ‘is path ev’ morn with a minesweep a’ unlikely accidents
'Mantra uttered repeatedly before Restless Sleep'
In retrospect I…
This Woman Wild
She curses the moon for illuminating her frame
written ode to Kate O'Brien's 'Spy in the House of Love'
painted face and a rubber glove
















