Ellen grew up making and creating in the coastal town of Inverloch, her practice now encompasses large scale drawings and plant based installations. Her works are imbued with the obsessiveness and compulsivity of an artist who loves to make with her hands, whether this be hours of layered black crosshatching or the gathering and arrangement of thousands of grasses, leaves and flowers.The work is part of the work.

She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture and Spatial Practice, at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008. In the years following, she has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions throughout Melbourne and South Gippsland, where she currently works and lives.