Ella Morton

Ella Morton is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker living in Toronto. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Greenland and Antarctica. Working primarily with lens-based media, she uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes.

She earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design (New York) and an MFA from York University (Toronto). She has exhibited her work internationally, including shows at Lonsdale Gallery (Toronto), Foley Gallery (New York), Contemporary Calgary (Calgary), 516 Arts (Albuquerque), Galérie AVE (Montréal), SPAO Gallery, (Ottawa), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Pictura Gallery (Bloomington, IN), the Turchin Center for the Arts (Boone, NC), Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna) and Hanstholm Art Space (Denmark). Her films have screened internationally, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Future of Film Showcase, Antimatter Media Art, Dawson City International Short Film Festival and the Alchemy Film & Media Arts Festival, among others.

In 2021, her project, The Dissolving Landscape, won the Environmental Award as part of the Center Awards at Review Santa Fe. Her work has been featured in a variety of publications including the NPR Picture Show, Lenscratch, Better Photography Magazine, Analog Forever Magazine, Lomography Magazine, the Toronto Star and the British Journal of Photography. Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the British Columbia Arts Council, the National Film Board of Canada and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.