“While Ellis’s subject matter ranges widely, her works are unified by a distinctive sculptural language: a hand-made, elegant formalism that distils objects to their essence and casts them as monuments to arrested motion. There is something hopefully elegiac in this strategy, as if by depicting these instruments of waste and depletion as relics, Ellis can halt the squandering of our planet’s resources; and yet there is a tension in her work that suggests she can’t help but marvel at the ingenuity and innovations that power our drive to dig deeper, travel faster, and build higher. More complex than a simple critique, her sculptural allegories stand as testaments to the genius of human invention, along with its fatal lack of foresight.”

“With a background in set design and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts, Brodie Ellis creates large-scale sculptural installations out of modest materials, such as clay, timber and hessian. Her interest in social and environmental issues is applied to site-specific explorations, resulting in works that question our use of natural resources and the pursuit of technological puissance in poetic and suggestive ways.”