ABOUT
Elleanna Chapman investigates the political potential of art to catalyse class struggle, framing her call for revolution through the kitsch and pop-cultural – contrasting militancy with the fabulous and familiar. Working across media, with a particular fondness for bedazzling and wheatpaste, she attempts to bring the true nature of class society to the fore, delivered to the viewer via the glittering hand of a diva.
Underpinning her work, Chapman is a member of the Revolutionary Communist International. Consequently, she regularly engages with working-class histories, propaganda strategies, and current affairs. The artist asserts that her political organisation is in and of itself a social practice that both justifies and informs her work in the studio.
Drawing from her sincere love for so-called ‘low art’, Chapman looks to disrupt class and taste hierarchies, collaging found material together with her own creations, and stealing from society’s expansive image (and pop) culture as a basis for proletarian subversion. Ultimately, the artist hopes to create a new form of Agitprop that will have you looking twice – when the revolutionary is put forward vis-à-vis celebrities and the surreal, the demand to oust capitalism altogether does not appear so outlandish, after all.
CONTACT
studio@elleannachapman.com
@elleannac Instagram
EDUCATION
2026
Future Ruins and New Worlds, The Old Waterworks, Essex, Post Graduate Level Short Course
2021 - 2024
The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, BFA Fine Art (First Class Honours)
2020 - 2021
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, Foundation Diploma in Fine Art (Distinction)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
Office with Teaspoon Projects, Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
Mood Swings with Teaspoon Projects, NORITO Gallery, London, UK
International Women's Day Auction with AOAP Projects, The Bomb Factory Holborn, London, UK
Good Eye Projects, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2025
Gabble, Greatorex Street, London, UK
Anonymous Anomalies, Overbury Road, London, UK
Fandom with Bad Art Presents, London Art Services, London, UK
A Summer Party with Working Arts Club and Working Class Creatives, The Art House, London, UK
DGTL GRL with Homesick Collective, Galleria Objets, London, UK
Summer Camp, East Side Projects, Birmingham, UK
Despite, Ethereal Maison Gallery, London, UK
Grafters Collective: on-screen, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Estuary Dreams, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, UK
The Rendered Girl, Ethereal Maison Gallery, London, UK
Home Is Where the Art Is, Hypha HQ, London, UK
Whipped, Under the Spell Art Space, London, UK
2024
Hypha Studios Open, The Dispensary, Wrexham, UK
Introducing: Grafters Collective, The Peckham Pelican, London, UK
Water, Oil, Honey, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2023
Decolonising Computing with Art Review Oxford, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, UK
Time to Act, hARTslane, London, UK
Open Cells, Koppel Collective Gallery, London, UK
PRINT!, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK
I docked my own tail, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, UK [duo]
DOOZY, Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
Spilt Milk, Fusion Arts, Oxford, UK
S for Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, UK
2022
New Hybrids, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, UK
Trouble, Fusion Arts, Oxford, UK
T E L L I N G S P A C E S, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK [solo]
A Cosmos of Colour, Richmond Gallery, Yorkshire, UK
RESIDENCIES
2025
Acme Studios, London, UK
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Good Eye Projects, London, UK
Hypha Studios HQ, London, UK
2024
WOMB with Bow Arts, London, UK
Cambridge Artworks and Art Space, Cambridge, UK
2023
The Koppel Project, London, UK
SELECTED AWARDS
2025
Recipient of the Emergent Residency and Bursary Award, Shape Arts, London, UK and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Recipient of the Eaton Fund, London, UK
2023
Recipient of The Supporting Act Foundation's Creative Bursary, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022
Recipient of the Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize, Oxford, UK
COLLECTIONS
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Good Eye Projects, London, UK
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
EDITIONS
SELECTED PRESS AND FEATURES
2026
In Pictures: Basel Social Club, Carlie Porterfield for The Art Newspaper
Artists forge new paths at Basel Social Club, Kabir Jhala for The Art Newspaper
Business is Pleasure: Basel Social Club 2026, Augustine Paredes for Canvas
10 Reasons Basel Social Club is Basel’s Most Unpredictable Destination, Katy Donoghue for Whitewall
6 Standout Artists to See at Art Basel 2026, Lee Sharrock for ourculture
Updating How We Feel About Britney Spears, Hannah Raine for Polyester Magazine
Field of View #10 – Elleanna Chapman, GRASS Magazine
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to See in London this April, Tabish Khan for FAD Magazine
Pointillist Trisha Paytas, a Backrooms dentist & psychological warfare, Izzy Bilkus for Stoozy
Review: Good Eye Projects 2026 at Saatchi Gallery, Lizzie Barratt for Glimpse Magazine
Elleanna Chapman and Comrade Beyoncé, Ruby Mitchell for Fetch London
Don't miss: Plaster's art picks, Dora Densham Bond for Plaster Magazine
Rhinestones and Revolution, Bruno Bayley for The Supporting Act Foundation
2025
Hall of Contemporaries, Autumn 2025, Toria Eve for The Art Thread
Guide to Frieze Week 2025, Hector Campbell for The Shock of the Now
Nº101: Elleanna Chapman, God Save The Scene
Spotlight: Elleanna Chapman, 'Please welcome to the stage... Comrade Beyoncé', GRASS Magazine
Don't Miss: London art for your diary, Plaster Magazine
Elleanna Chapman confirmed as Baltic x Shape Arts Emergent recipient, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Introducing the 2025 Emergent resident and cohort, Shape Arts
Plaster Shoots: A birthday bash with Working Arts Club and Working Class Creatives, Isabel MacCarthy for Plaster Magazine
Home Is Where the Art Is by Grafters Collective at Hypha HQ, Tom Glover for FAD Magazine
Whipped at Under the Spell, émergent magazine
Issue#158 - Recommended Exhibitions, Hector Campbell for The Shock of the Now
An Interview with Elleanna Chapman, Women Cinemakers
2024
Grantees talk about their graduation, The Supporting Act Foundation
2023
Say hello to the 2023 grantees, The Supporting Act Foundation
Exploring the Political Power of Kitschy Collages: an interview with Elleanna Chapman, Insights of an Eco Artist Magazine
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRINT
2026
In Pictures: Basel Social Club. Published by The Art Newspaper.
GRASS Issue V. Published by GRASS Magazine.
Elleanna Chapman's 'Attack of the 50 Foot Comrade'. Published by The Communist.
The Radge-South Divide: Elleanna Chapman in conversation with Meg McWilliam. Published by Radge Magazine.
2025
Tiger Liu on Elleanna Chapman. Published by Gabble Magazine. [cover feature]
Kitties Want Communism. Self-Published.
2024
Introducing: Grafters Collective. Published by Grafters Collective.
The Cute Communist: Exploring the political potential of a cute aesthetic. Self-Published.
Autists & their Animals. Published by Grrrl Zine Fair.
2024
Teach-Out on Education and Work. Published by Art Review Oxford.
CURATION
2026
Mood Swings with Teaspoon Projects, NORITO Gallery, London, UK, co-curated with Gigi Surel
2025
Grafters Collective: on-screen, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK