About me

I am a recent graduate from Kingston School of Art with an international degree in Illustration Animation. My practice ties together the disciplines of researcher and image-maker, and my projects often begin and end with an open book.

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Projects

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  The V&ACommissioned artwork for The V&A 2018 performance festival programme, ‘Censorship and Circus’.
• Exberliner Magazinen 2018 I took an internship with Berlin based arts and culture magazine ‘Exberliner’. Whilst there I worked as an in-house Journalist and Illustrator. Here is a selection of my printed works.
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  After Spicer, After LorcaSelected works from a months residency with De Liceiras in Portugal. Prints inspired by Frederico Garcia Lorca’s poetry.
• BANGHow do we re-think our experience of silence, a sensation we perceive to be neither heard, seen, nor felt? How do we measure silence, what space does silence occupy, and does absolute silence really exist? BANG is a research-based project in response to these questions.
• ToscaAnimation short for The Royal Opera House, re-imagining the story of Tosca in a modern-day Tuscan kitchen. Link: https://vimeo.com/elliedempsey
• 1 Hr 371 Hour 37 is a calculation of silence in J.D. Salinger’s novella Franny and Zooey, figured by using punctuation marks as a measure. If a full-stop, an ellipsis, a comma are moments for breath, then how much silence exists between the words on the page?

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Work history

IllustratorV&A
Feb 2018London, United KingdomFreelance
I was commissioned to produce the cover artwork for The V&A's 2018 performance festival programme 'Censorship and Circus' as well as their April 2018 Friday Late programme 'Circus Past, Present and Future'.
AnimatorRoyal Opera House
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018London, United KingdomFreelance
Animation short for The Royal Opera House's 'Tosca' preview.

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Skills

• Risograph Printing
• Stop Motion
• Book Arts
• Etching
• Monoprinting
• Writing
• Design
• Typesetting
• Adobe
• Illustration

Education

Illustration Animation BA(Hons)Kingston School of Art
Sep 2014 - Jul 2019Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
My degree in Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art interrogated and challenged the traditional preconceptions of the combined discipline.

Awards

Highly Commended in 'Illustration Research Methods'Kingston School of Art