ELLA SADDINGTON  Designer/Curator
Ella Saddington    Designer/Curator
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Ella Saddington is a multidisciplinary designer and curator interested in narratives of community, materiality and aesthetics. Specialising in process and material investigation her work often incorporates research, collaboration and experimentation as a form of critical practice. Working across furniture and object design, Saddington often focuses on overlooked and ubiquitous processes and materials, in which re-imagined are shown again in a different light.

Establishing Melbourne based design studio and collaborative practice CORDON SALON in 2018. With a particular interest in lost or forgotten processes and crafts the studio works with skilled or specialised craftspeople, artists and designers to create one-of-a-kind or limited edition collectable design works.

In 2020 Saddington founded NEW ASSEMBLAGE a curitorial project that focuses on developing opportunities within the Australian contempory collectable design community through a series of exhibitions and creative programs.




 

CURRICULUM VITAE
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Ella Saddington b. 1986, Bundjalung land (Murwillumbah), Australia
Lives and works on Wurundjeri land (Naarm/Melbourne), Australia
Exhibitions (solo)
Volume IV, Sophie Gannon Gallery (2022)

Volume III, Designwork 05 for Melbourne Design Week, Sophie Gannon Gallery (2021)
Morphic, Compound Interest Gallery (2019)
 
Exhibitions (group)
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 [2022]
Designing with waste- Prented by Raw Assembly & T Magazine for Beta Project Residency [2022]
Sharefolder Fantasy - Curated by Dale Hardiman &  Mark Dineen for Melbourne Design Week (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 (2022)
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 (2021)
Ingenuity - Alt.Material 4/ Presented by Alt.Material & Dezeen (2020)
Life & Death - Meat Market Stables /Curated by Friends & Associates for Melboure Design Week /Melbourne (2020)
Elasticity - Alt.Material 2/ Presented by Alt.Material for Melboure Design Week (2019)
Plasticity - Alt.Material 1/ Presented by Alt.Material (2018)
Curation
Showcase by New Assemblage /Oigåll projects/Melbourne (2022)
Cannibals by James Lemon /Oigåll Projects /Melbourne (2021)
Refractions by Alexander Brown /Oigåll Projects /Melbourne (2021)
Faux Pas - Oigåll Projects /Presented by New Assemblage for Craft Contemporary /Melbourne (2021)
Vessel by Annika Kafcaloudis Oigåll Projects /Melbourne (2021)
Further Thoughts by Ami Morris /Oigåll Projects /Melbourne (2021)
Rituals Of Decadance - Group show /Oigåll Projects /Melbourne (2021)
Future Proof - Oigåll Projects /Presented by New Assemblage for Melbourne Design Week /Melbourne (2021)




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.