![]()
Ellen Wilkinson is an artist and writer based in London.
She makes quilted textiles that can be hung on a wall or draped around
the body. Blocks of cotton and linen fabrics form bold, colourful
patterns, punctuated by hand stitched lines to create rhythmic texture.
Modernist influences are made softer: grids are loose, lines deviate,
geometry ripples.
Collaging together fabrics she collects and repurposes, including
picked-apart clothing, her quilts contain their materials’ histories.
Sitting between abstract art and functional design, Ellen’s work questions
the idea that quilting and hand sewing belong only in domestic space,
and through their laborious making, draw parallels with women’s often
hidden labours.
Her writing appears in books, galleries, magazines and on digital platforms, and has been published by a-n, This is Tomorrow, FACT Liverpool, Printmaking Today, Bristol Museum
and Art Gallery and artist-led initiatives across the UK.
As an editor, Ellen oversaw a-n’s 40 Years 40 Artists interview series, produced copy for the UK Parliament Art and Heritage Collections website and worked on The Healing Arts, a book about the pioneering arts project at Chelsea and Westminster NHS hospital.
![]()
