Thursday, 25 February 2010

Ella Guru.



Above Ella Gura. Ella's & Sexton Ming paintings.

www.ellaguru.org.uk/indexarch.php

Come and see more of Ella & Sexton's work in the Funism exhibition. 18th March preview night. 6-8pm. 18th March -9th April. The Willesden Green Gallery. London.

By Brian Sherwin

www.myartspace.com

Ella has had great creative success as a visual artist and musician. She was number one in the Indie charts with the group Voodoo Queens in 1993 and has also had success as a member of the Deptford Beach Babes, The Tasty Ones', and the Tropics of Cancer. Ella is able to transfer the same energy she has as a musician into her visual art. The end result is an eclectic blend of visual art that involves everything from reflections of the 'underground scene' to geese.

In 1999, she was one of the twelve founder members of the pro-painting Stuckists art group (London) and took part in demonstrations against the Turner Prize outside Tate Britain. She started the Stuckist web site, which has been key to spreading the movement worldwide.

She was a featured artist in the Stuckists' landmark show The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Pop Culture, London, as well as in Germany, the United States, Australia, and Amsterdam.

Ella is known for her alternative "underground" life style and 'gender bending' paintings. She used to frequent fetish clubs as a dominatrix, and has a penchant for transvestites. The subject matter of her work often features such subjects, including many paintings of men and women wearing 1960s style beehive wigs. Although the content is frequently unorthodox, she paints in a "traditional" style.