The National Art School acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners on whose lands, water and skies we meet and share.

Such places, once there was life

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charcoal on paper

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76 x 56 cm

Ellen McCalmont

Ellen McCalmont

Ellen McCalmont is a visual artist working primarily in drawing and photography, with a focus on themes of the eerie and uncanny, and the haunting presence of the past. Through charcoal drawing, Ellen uses the aesthetic language of film to depict the interaction of light and shadow within anonymous, decaying interiors. In these spaces time is suspended, and the boundary between presence and absence begins to blur. Her work is shaped by horror theory, film aesthetics, and the idea of the threshold as a site of transition. Each drawing becomes a fragment of something larger - an unresolved story where the past presses insistently into the present.