2025//
Set Designer & Performance/Art Director, Kaunas Performance Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania – Cannibalisms with Ana Lipps & Irina Komissarova
Set Designer & Performance/Art Director, Yaga Gathering, Lithuania – Death of the Box
Set Designer & Performance/ Art Director, Lithuanian Photographers’ Union, Vilnius, Lithuania– Bitch Goddess
2024//
Creative Director & Set Designer, AUDRA Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania – Ecdysis with Iceboy Violet (live show)
2019//
Creative Director & Script writer, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK –The Politics of Looking, with Black Haine, All Choreographers Are Bastards, SCUM & SNITCH Publishes
LIVE SHOW & PERFORMANCE
ELLA SKINNER [B. CARDIFF, WALES, 1997] IS A VISUAL ARTIST, SET DESIGNER, AND ART DIRECTOR WORKING ACROSS LIVE PERFORMANCE, FILM, AND INSTALLATION. SHE LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN THE UK AND VILNIUS (LITHUANIA).
Skinner is known for her visceral and bold visual style, creating immersive environments that merge performance, architecture, and emotion into unforgettable experiences that have been featured across festivals, galleries and club spaces in Europe and the UK. She has previously collaborated with artists such as Philip Glass, Iceboy Violet & Black Haine.
BIOGRAPHY
2023//
Director, Set Designer & Editor, Untitled #13 – Glwzbll, Vilnius, Lithuania, music video
2022//
Director, Set Designer & Editor, Black on Black – Algernon Cornelius, Manchester, UK, music video
2021//
Creative Director & LP Designer, The Centre is Everywhere – Philip Glass & Manchester Collective via Bedroom Community, Iceland & Manchester, UK
Set Designer, LP Designer & Creative Director, Imbibe- Atwtr via Monolithic Studios, Los Angeles, USA.
FILM & MUSIC PROJECTS
2024//
ROLO at Útkall Festival, Flateyri, Iceland
2023//
Dismantling Dreams; Disrupted Seams, Rupert Residency at Lelija, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Sound of Glass, Resonant Bodies at Rag Gallery, Manchester, UK
2022//
Divinity, Studio SCUM at Islington Mill, Manchester, UK (Featured artist, Curator & Exhibition Designer)
The Flesh of Himation, SIIILK Gallery, Athens, Greece (Solo Show)
Eat Manchester Artists, The British Art Show at Islington Mill
2021//
Manchester School of Art Masters Degree Show, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2019-2022//
Creative Director and Founder- Studio SCUM LTD
Multidisciplinary agency and publishing platform merging live performance, visual art, and experimental music. Directed and produced exhibitions, publications, and live events representing independent artists from the UK, USA and Europe.
Projects:
Divinity (exhibition & performance showcase, Islington Mill, Manchester, UK)
FILTH (publication & livestream series)
SCUM BEFORE U CUM (live event series in aid of charity Sexpression MCR, offering free sexual health services to audience members after NHS funding cuts, FUEL & The Old Abbey Taphouse, Manchester, UK)
SCUM VOLUME II (publication & VR exhibition)
Democracy & Social Media (publication)
SCUM VOLUME I (publication & live music event)
CREATIVE DIRECTION
RESIDENCIES
2024//
SODAS 2123, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024//
Rupert (AEP), Vilnius, Lithuania
2023//
SIIILK Gallery, Athens, Greece
2021//
Islington Mill, Manchester, UK (until 2023)
2020//
Arts Catalyst & Resolve Collective, London, UK (digital)
EDUCATION
2024//
Certificate in Art Direction and Architectural Draughting for Film and Television, Film Design International, Pinewood Studios, London, UK (Distinction)
2020-2021//
MFA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, UK (First Class/ Distinction)
2016-2019//
BA Hons English Literature with History of Art, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (First Class)