Ellie Niblock
Ellie’s work explores the fragmented nature of identity, shaped by the experience of growing up in a neutral space between Irish and British cultures in the North of Ireland. This duality informs her investigation into how personal and cultural identities are fluid, often undefined, and continuously shifting in response to historical and social contexts.
Her work speaks to the wider experiences of migration and the pursuit of new opportunities, reflecting on the nuances of belonging and cultural negotiation. These themes resonate, reflecting the feeling of existing between cultures, places, and identities.
By combining sculpture and digital technologies she blends the physical and digital worlds, understanding how they co-exist and how they reshape our perception of self, memory and reality. She creates augmented versions of her memories, blending personal narratives with altered interpretations using sculpture, 3D scanning, and AI. This engages the tension between the familiar and the unknown, giving form to the invisible, and exaggerates memory’s malleability.