Artist Talk – David Ellingsen: Recent Photographs of Truth and Beauty
Join us for an inspiring evening with acclaimed photographer David Ellingsen as he presents Recent Photographs of Truth and Beauty.
Through his striking and contemplative imagery, David explores the delicate intersections of humanity, nature, and time. In this intimate artist talk, he will share the stories and inspirations behind his latest works, offering a rare glimpse into his creative process and the search for beauty in our changing world.
Saturday, October 4
6:30–8:30 PM
Wilson & Co. Gallery & Studio, 411A 1st Avenue, Ladysmith
Free Event - Please RSVP Here
Overview:
David Ellingsen grew up on Cortes Island in BC and is now an internationally recognized photo-based artist making work that centres biodiversity and raises questions around human relationship with the natural world. In partnership with these often challenging projects, David also maintains a long term practice making time-based landscape photographs. His recent work continues to focus on the land and the more-than-human. In this talk Ellingsen will present the ongoing project Days of Plenty: An Archive of Abundance - exhibiting in France in November - as well as new landscape photographs from the shores of Cortes, Quadra, Hornby, and Vancouver islands.
More about David:
Ellingsen descends from a family of immigrants and the first settlers to reside on Cortes Island - the traditional territory of the Klahoose, Tla’amin and Homalco First Nations - in 1887. His work draws upon this family history, one often embedded within British Columbia’s troubled forest industry, and the photographs reflect on the impacts of extraction and consumption on past, present, and future eco-systems.
Exhibitions include China’s Lishui Museum of Art, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and Canada's Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Ellingsen’s photographs are part of the permanent collections of South Korea's Datz Museum of Art, China's Photography Museum of Lishui, and Canada's Royal British Columbia Museum. They have appeared with the British Journal of Photography, National Geographic and Patagonia Books, joined Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50 and received First Place at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards.
In earlier years Ellingsen was a freelance assignment photographer, working for clients including the CBC, Rogers Communications, Telus, Time Inc., the New York Times Magazine, Business Development Bank of Canada, Canadian Medical Association, MTV/Nickelodeon, Nettwerk Records and the Oprah Winfrey Network.
With a place-based practice informed by the landscape of his birth, Ellingsen's work is made predominantly within a 200 mile radius of Cortes Island. He lives with his husband in Victoria, on Vancouver Island.
