Ellen Poppy Hill

Whilst working predominantly as a fashion designer, Ellen Poppy Hill’s practice includes drawing, sculpture and multimedia artworks. Her practice focuses around repurposing found fabrics and objects which are then re-contextualised in to her own fantasy world, with her unique penmanship and assembly of cutting cloth each item of clothing is a one-off-one-size piece to treasure.

Her recent body of work was a tongue-in-cheek play on the personification of clothes that have been abandoned and fallen in to a state of disrepair, using symbols of repair as a gimmick of falsely repairing ‘broken’ clothes. Her collection had three-dimensional giant zippers, embellished moths and trompe l'oeil tape. These same tokens are used in her art practice, through the assembly of found scraps from her sewing studio from a bricolage of multifaceted objects to form her cyclical body of research toward forthcoming collections.