Faces in the Crowd: Exhibition Private View Saturday 2nd July 7pm-11pm

Gallery Cafe 21 Old Ford Road E2 9PL

With D.Js and live music from King Salami

"London life can be both anonymous and intimate. The paintings force the spectator to experience both of these sensations; chasing a faceless figure through abstracted crowded locations and then coming face to face with a penetrating stare"

Bon Voyage and Jonzi D

So as my disappearance to eastern lands approaches, I am preparing for two new projects.

To follow: Postcards from beyond

Shadow Traces

But for now here is a little info from my next subject in the 'Linked' project, the lovely Jonzi D.

My name is Jonzi D and I am one of the artistic directors here at Sadler’s Wells theatre I do an event called breaking convention which is an international festival of hip hop dance theatre and I’m just right here about to have a meeting with a urm a woman who organizes a festival in France and we’re hopefully going to talk about how we can make partnerships um with this festival maybe [how long have you been doing this] seven years [how did you get into this] I got into it cos I love hip hop I was an old school rapper from back in the day I useder to rap and tour a lot I toured with Gang Starr and Jay Rule the Damager urm I also do performance poetry urm I’ve done a couple of things on TV before urm I’ve hosted a program on TV about dance for the camera on Channel Four… and yeah and um I love my work [did you grow up in London?]I grew up in London East London born and bred…I was born in the sound of the Bow Bells so I’m a true Cockney although living in Islington the accent’s just gone

In the Crowd development

Pros Duon: Final Piece

I have integrated a line drawing from Pros and Nadent's dance performance and an image from the charity they are members of. Watching their dance performance motivated me to go and see a dance at Sadler's Wells called Vertical Road, which was inspired by the connections that exist between people the world over. I have collaged part of an article about the inspiration of the piece onto this painting.

Nadent Pon : Final Piece

I managed to source some Cambodian stamps with images of birds on them; connecting Nikos's story with Nadent's journey to England. I have used 19 in total.

Nikos Leonidas : Final Piece

Have used extracts of sheet music:
Orpheus in the Underworld.








The Greek myth of Orpheus tied in nicely with the conversation I had with Nikos.

Exhibition Invite

An exhibition of paintings by

Ella Phillips

Curated by Habda Rashid

Indo Bar

133 Whitechapel Road E1 1DT

1 November-30 November

Opening: 1 November 6pm- 11pm

www.ellaphillipsportfolio.com