Ellen Sollod : An Intriguing Artist

There were four distinct types of artworks in this exhibition.

That is what intrigued me.It demonstrates Ellen Sollod’s experimental approach to photography

Above you see an overview of the installation. The large bw digital image below has a ghost image of  the artist. the artist explained to us that she stood in front of the camera for part of 30 seconds, then the shutter went off and what appeared was this ghost image.

Flaneuse of course takes us back to the male flaneur of late 19th century, the idea of walking the streets of a city dabbling in this and that. In Sollods photographs the artist is invisible to others, a ghost that wanders freely. She has chosen particularly overbearing male buildings to set hersa telf in fronth9ough to9 declare there are no boundaries to what she can do.

La flanêuse (Hotel de Ville), 35 x 44”, archival pigment print, capture 2024, print 2026

La flanêuse (Lugdunum), 35 x 44”, archival pigment print, capture 2024, print 2026

Tete D’or

These are public art works from the Brightwater Treatment Plant by Ellen and other artists such as Buster Simpson in 2011.

It is included in my book Setting Our Heaers on Fire

The great contrast to the works on exhibit demonstrates Sollod’s versatility as an artist.

During her artist convrsation with Liz Brown

Sollod is holding her small pinhole camera