Ellen Duffy's commission was a collaboration with fellow artist, Kate Murphy.
Ellen Duffy’s work sits somewhere between expanded painting, assemblage, and installation. It was rooted in the idea that objects give power to one another by the role they play in the assemblage.
Her way of making is driven by a thoughtful curiosity that allows her to reimagine the roles and purpose of the objects she uses. She uses found, and discarded materials, such as steel, foam, and packaging materials and creates a dialogue between them, resulting in open-ended, playful installations. The relationships between the objects in her works are created by an attention to process and the integration of properties of the materials used, such as colour or repeated structures. Her work speaks of the inter-reliance between the objects and their interaction within a space and with the viewer. In a given installation the works can exist in a perpetually changing state, creating infinite networks. In addition to the conversations that occur among the network of objects within the work, the works also rely on the space it occupies.
Ellen's collaborative work with fellow artist, Kate Murphy, allows her to make work that exists in an ever-changing form and develops through inter-reliance on external factors.
