HOW WE CHOOSE
ASHLEIGH ELLIS
SCULPTURE:
silk, dye plants Madder Root and Dyer’s Camomile, used and dried dye plant materials, water, glass
2022
To walk; Feather Soft With the Earth Our footsteps treading Sweet Reverence And fill the Cup of Abundance Slowing Thought to meet our Presence It Dare not break our Fast And Vastness extends to show us What we are not missing A Space to hold inside when leaving To Walk; Feather Soft Seeding.
How We Choose
How We Choose is a sculptural reflective space to think through practices in our daily routines. Ashleigh is interested in how we relate to material and living beings and how we can give gratitude and care for the overlooked presences that share our world. Like seeping liquid, slow yet steady, collective change is possible by actions that are from a contemplative place of care, of being with the grief for our changing world and taking steps together, always together.
How We Choose invites you to take a moment to yourself and contemplate what steps can be made in this time of great change.
ASHLEIGH
ELLIS
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ashleigh7ellis@gmail.com
Ashleigh Ellis is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Cork, whose practice is focused on interconnected eco-social concerns; the crossover between art, ecology and community. She is passionate about fostering life-promoting reflection and activities with communities so that we gain agency to value and protect the wider Earth communities that support us and flourish together. Her practice develops many different media, processes and disciplines to explore the relationships between people and the more-than-human world and to re-imagine our world together. Recently she has been developing skills in natural dyeing, and growing dye plants with communities and facilitating workshops with funding from Create Ireland (Arts in the Community award 2021) and Cork City Council Arts Office (Arts in Context award 2022).