Bryony Ella

Bryony Ella Interdisciplinary artist working somewhere inbetween science and spirituality, exploring belonging to / with / in / as nature.

11/06/2026

Who’s joining us for a very special opening of the solstice weekend ?

Activating the sculpture ‘My body is a sundial’ within the current exhibition ‘The Sun and the Moon: Art inspired by the celestial’, the performance ‘Stand of the Sun’ will carry you from outer space into our sweltering cities, travelling through heat-stroked bodies into the depths of the human psyche, to reconsider our changing relationship to the Sun.

Guided by the ancient wisdom of our closest star, this is a new ritual for a time of climate collapse.

Together, through an immersive light and sound scape with dance by , we will reflect together on the harsh realities faced by communities in London, Paris, New York and Port of Spain and the environmental histories of urban living, while feeling into the wonder of our deep time celestial interconnectedness.

The performance is inspired by the research of and supported by .

The full solstice weekend at Saatchi Gallery is supported by .is.gspot, , , , .

Come join us 💛 Let us turn to new horizons, with “feet rooted by gravity, yet we rise and fall with the Sun”.

19 June, 6:30pm,
Booking link is in my bio 👆🏽

Film by with footage shot in 2025 by NorthSouth.

Featuring .clem .strings.sound .

Some pics from last night, celebrating the opening of The Sun and Moon: Art inspired by the Celestial with a couple of ...
05/06/2026

Some pics from last night, celebrating the opening of The Sun and Moon: Art inspired by the Celestial with a couple of my Stand of the Sun crew and environmental history colleagues Anna Ravenscroft and Dr Kathryn Dutton.

Across nine galleries, the exhibition charts myriad ways in which creatives have explored, channeled, interrogated and honoured humanity’s relationship to sun and moon. The show opened today, on World Environment Day - naturally.

In my offering, I turn to embodied experiences of extreme heat inside the city; steel and glass and abstract figurative transparencies of ink, pouring, sweating, pulsing, dripping… across a sundial cleaved in two.

This has been a long term project with historians researching the rise of extreme urban heat and I am to see it situated in the ‘Zenith’ gallery of this exhibition. Here, you can also listen to the Stand of the Sun musical score ~ a conversation between human and sun, travelling from outer space into the city, through the body and into the depths of the human psyche. It asks: what are our bodies trying to tell us about how we are distorting our ancient relationship with our closest star?

Join us on 19 June Saatchi Lates to experience this multidisciplinary activation of the sculpture - a link to tickets is in my bio.

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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of sharing my studio with one of my fave photographers Ewelina Ruminska, while ...
24/05/2026

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of sharing my studio with one of my fave photographers Ewelina Ruminska, while I completed the reworked sculpture My Body is a Sundial. Here’s a sneak peek - taking a mo in my studio@krowji_ and a close up of one of my favourite panels - inks cracking and splintering, echoing the harsh impact of extreme heat on the physical body.

More soon on this new version of a commission inspired by the research of .

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12/05/2026

Mark the coming summer solstice with a very special evening performance of ‘Stand of the Sun’ at Saatchi Gallery Lates on 19th June.

Live dance, responsive lighting, composite storytelling and musical score will animate the sculpture ‘My Body is a Sundial’, to conjure a solstice ritual spanning time and space.

Together, we will journey from outer space into the heart of our cities, contemplating our changing relationship with the hot heart of our solar system through an embodied conversation between human and Sun itself.

How does the Sun experience our cities? How does it feel to move through our heat stroked bodies? What new horizons can our closest star illuminate to humanity in this moment of global warming?

The performance is inspired and commissioned by the environmental history research of supported project and takes place as part of the wider programme of ’s exhibition ‘Sun and Moon: Art inspired by the Celestial’.

As the Sun sets overhead, live performance by and , with musical composition by and musical direction by , will carry us into new states of attentiveness and empathy, broadening our sense of community.

Booking essential:
📆 19 June, 6:30-9pm (exact performance time tbc)
⏳ Run time: 50 minutes
🎟️ Book via Saatchi Gallery website

‘Stand of the Sun’ is written and directed by and produced by .

🎥 Footage shot by North South, edited by .

Happy to share that three of my works are in the St Ives Society’s Spring exhibition, which is now open Monday-Saturday ...
01/05/2026

Happy to share that three of my works are in the St Ives Society’s Spring exhibition, which is now open Monday-Saturday 10-5 until 19 June. First time exhibiting in one of the most charming venues in Cornwall ~ Mariners Gallery in St Ives 💙

I am looking forward to checking out this group show soon.

Included (in order of images here): ‘Storm of flight’ - ink on layered recycled acrylic, and two oil pastel sketches: ‘Soundscape’ and ‘The Walker’.

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Upcoming!
21/04/2026

Upcoming!

Gradually settling in to my new studio . So happy to have the sycamore sister work hanging high. Evening sun up here is ...
07/04/2026

Gradually settling in to my new studio . So happy to have the sycamore sister work hanging high. Evening sun up here is beautiful, photos don’t do it justice. Seagulls calling and the coast in t’distance - barely have a chance to take a mo to soak it up but looking forward to long summer evenings painting in studio 223 soooon 🧡

Four steps back in the studio today.
31/03/2026

Four steps back in the studio today.

On and on 🔁Caught by
27/03/2026

On and on 🔁
Caught by

Today a new Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities was published, and I was delighted to contribute i...
20/03/2026

Today a new Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities was published, and I was delighted to contribute in it a reflection on an art and environmental history collaboration I worked on in New York 2023-24, with partner in crime Dr Kara Schlichting . I’ve been looking back at the photos of that period, here are some of my faves.

Together, as part of ’ public engagement programme, we developed a ‘walkshop’ called Drawing Heat, which invited New Yorkers to explore the rise of urban heat islands in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, through historical narrative interwoven with experimental mark-making. With partners and , we ran walkshops in the height of summer ~ the artworks and conversations from which have subsequently informed my public artwork offerings for : sculpture My Body is a Sundial and the performance Stand of the Sun.

My contribution to the chapter shares some of the key qualities I believe are essential to successful academic-artist collaborations: namely, shared goals (not as common as you’d imagine!), enough time to build a shared language and support mutual understanding across disciplines (often an afterthought), and crucially - ensuring genuine respect for and interest in one another’s practice.

Thank you to Dr Shelda-Jane Smith and Dr Rosie Knowles, geographers also at Melting Metropolis, for inviting me to collaborate on this chapter, and thank you to editors Dr Victoria Bates and Dr Amber Abrams for expertly steering the book to publication. I hope our sharings inspire and support more academics to work with creatives going forward. 🧡

Photographs by Summer Walker and Martina Colova.

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