ELLA SADDINGTON  Designer/Curator

Ella Saddington    Designer/Curator
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Ella Saddington is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and curator based in Naarm (Melbourne). In 2018 she founded Cordon Salon, a studio that uses research, collaboration and experimentation as a method to speculate on alternative approaches to contemporary craft and design. Working across furniture and object design, Saddington often focuses on overlooked, forgotten or ubiquitous processes and materials, in which re-imagined are shown again in a different light.

Saddington has exhibited widely across Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne Design Fair, Sydney Design Week & Craft Contemporary. Along with Solo exhibitions at Sophie Gannon Gallery (2021, 2022) & Oigall Projects (2023) she has exhibited at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia as part of the history-making exhibition Melbourne Now (2023).

Her work is held in private collections internationally. She is a fellow of International Specialised Skills Institute and awarded the George Alexander Foundation grant in 2022 in association with her fellowship. Saddington is a recipient of the Creative Victoria Creators Fund (2023) and is a member of NAVA and Craft Victoria.







 



CURRICULUM VITAE
Information
Ella Saddington b. 1986, Bundjalung land (Murwillumbah), Australia
Currently lives and works on Wurundjeri land (Naarm/Melbourne), Australia

Exhibitions (solo)
2023                    Volume IV,  Oigall Projects courtesy of Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2021                     Volume III,  Designwork 05 for Melbourne Design Week, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2019                     Morphic, Compound Interest Gallery, Melbourne


Exhibitions (group)
2024                    RED, presented by Oigall Projects and TCYK, Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne
2024                    Matters_Some things presented by Futures Collective, Villa Alba Museum, Melbourne 
2024                    Material Matters 02, Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne
2024                    Contemporary Antiquities, Oigall Projects, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2023                    Pieces, Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2023                    Everyone’s heard of a dragon curated by James Lemon & Bobby Corica, Craft Victoria, Melbourne 
2023                    Material Matters, Atileir, Craft Contempoary, Melbourne 
2023                    No House Style, Melbourne Now, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
2023                    Design House, Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2023                    Matters_ presented by Futures Collective, Villa Alba Museum, Melbourne

2022                    Venus on the Half-Shell - Curated by Oigall Projects, Melbourne 
2022                    OIGALL OFFSITE - Curated by Oigall Projects for Sydney Design Week, Sydney
2022                    The Chair - Curated by Eliza Tiernan for Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2022                    Designing with waste- Prented by Raw Assembly & T Magazine for Beta Project Residency, Melbourne 
2022                    Sharefolder Fantasy - Curated by Dale Hardiman & Mark Dineen for Melbourne Design Week, Online
2022                    Select - Melbourne Design Fair /Curated by Simone LeAmon for Melboure Design Week, Melbourne 
2022                    Self Portrait - RMIT Design Hub /Curated by Friends & Associates for Melboure Design Week, Melbourne 
2022                    Altenative Provisions /Presented by CRAFT for Melboure Design Week, Melbourne 
2021                     Faux Pas - Oigåll Projects /Presented by New Assemblage for Craft Contemporary, Melbourne 
2021                     Future Proof - Oigåll Projects /Presented by New Assemblage for Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne 
2021                     Chapter 1 - At The Above Gallery, Melbourne
2020                    Ingenuity - Alt.Material 4/ Presented by Alt.Material & Dezeen, Online
2020                    Life & Death - Meat Market Stables /Curated by Friends & Associates for Melboure Design Week, Melbourne 
2019                     Elasticity - Alt.Material 2/ Presented by Alt.Material for Melboure Design Week, Melbourne
2018                     Plasticity - Alt.Material 1/ Presented by Alt.Material, Melbourne

Awards, Prizes, Grants
2023                    Creators Fund, awarded by Creative Victoria
2022                    George Alexander Fellowship, awarded by the International Specialised Skills Insitiute 
2022                     Finalist - Omnia Art prize, Melbourne
2021                     Small Projects Grant, City of Yarra, Melbourne 

Residencies
2021-Current     Atiler Residency, Makers House -  BETA Project, Melbourne




I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation on whose land I live and work. I pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise the rich traditions and continuing creative cultures of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.

©Ella Saddington 2022




I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation on whose land I live and work. I pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise the rich traditions and continuing creative cultures of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.