Ella van Dort - Gilmore

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours)
Photomedia

I have been visiting Lake Ainsworth since I was little. My Dad swam in the same lake as a child, and has continued to do so throughout his life. This body of water holds shadows of my Dad that I will never meet, that I will never know. But, every time I return to this place, I know they are here - alongside the lingering echoes of myself and others.

As a body of work, Tomorrow Is a Long Time, seeks to examine the anteroom of being that the lake enacts, using the poetics of the camera to chronicle the traces of the past that can be felt in the present.

Ella van Dort-Gilmore, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Ella van Dort-Gilmore, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Ella van Dort-Gilmore, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Ella van Dort-Gilmore, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Untitled (Seth), 2024, Gelatin Silver Print

Untitled (Seth), 2024, Gelatin Silver Print

Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.

Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.

Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.

Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.

Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.
Untitled (Wire Fence One), 2024, Pigment Print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss
Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.

Untitled (Excerpt from Tomorrow Is a Long Time), 2024, 96 pages, Fedrigoni Gesso 120 gsm paper, 210 x 280mm, softcover.

A recent graduate of the University of Technology’s Bachelor of Design in Photography, Ella van Dort-Gilmore is a photographic artist working on Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). Creating primarily in analogue photographic practices, her work acts as a consideration on the intersection between the notions of time and place. She continues to expand upon her personal practice, experimenting with print publications, design, and alternative photographic operations.