ellejayerose

Ellen Jaye Benson (fine-artist and everyday hat)
a.k.a. ‘elle jaye rose’ (frustrated dark illustrator hat)
is an Australian Artist/Illustrator/Social Commentator…

Ideally, she would love to be ‘PAID’ to illustrate children’s books, not so children’s books & pop magazines or have a fine-art shrine and romantic biography fuelled by her steamy escapades written in her honour… but currently has the odd fine art exhibition (when pressured), is housebound looking after my newborn ‘Avalon Violet’ (hopefully she grows to be creative) and sells the odd tee on rb (but would like to sell many, many, many more).

Welcome to my small, dank and quite possibly unsanitary online corner…

when I die my epitaph may read:

“It’s a mental bed… It’s a bed I’m accustomed to”

as my alter ego ‘elle jaye rose’, my illustration artwork seats and swings somewhere between pop, personal, formal and informal.

I am poor, therefore an art whore and open to doing commissions – preferably of the most absurd and interesting kind… bubblemail me!

Musical Inspirations include:

David Bowie
The Smiths
The Go-Betweens
Talking Heads
Tom Waits
Patti Smith
Frank Black
The Dirty Three
Television
Devo
Blonde Redhead
The Birthday Party
Rowland S. Howard
Joy Division
The Pretenders (early stuff)
Gary Numan
My Bloody Valentine
Pulp
The Cramps
The Cure
Neko Case
Lou Reed
Underground Lovers
Gentle Ben & his Sensitive Side
Nancy Sinatra
T-Rex
Roxy Music
Nina Simone
The National

Books of Notoriety:

The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Flowers of Evil
Sexualia
Life After God
Of Mice and Men
The Orchid Thief
Crime and Punishment
Edgar Allen Poe Collection
Jitterbug Perfume
The Big Book of Shrigley
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
Buried Treasure: Travels through the Jewel Box
Catch 22
anything by Spike Milligan
Animal Farm
The Monstrous Feminine
David Lynch – Snowmen

Significant Artist Influences:

Egon Schiele
Frank Auerbach
David Shrigley
Paul Compton
John Douglas
Mark Rothko
Paula Rego
Brett Whiteley
Deborah Klein
Ben Quilty
Kiki Smith
Donna Malone
Paul Ruiz
Lucian Freud
Francis Bacon
Elyss McCleary
Steve Cox
Godwin Bradbeer
Toulouse-Lautrec
John Wolseley
Vivienne Westwood
Leigh Bowery
Loui Jover
Fiona Hall
Joan Mitchell
Meret Oppenheim
John Wolseley
Judy Horacek