Ella Dunn spent her formative years growing up in the mid-north coast of NSW. She is currently living and working in Melbourne. Dunn began exhibiting in 2014 and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in 2017. Dunn has exhibited at Saint Cloche, C3 Gallery, Bus Projects, Sutton Project Space and most recently had works shown on the ‘Sunday Salon’ site. Dunn was a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize in 2022 and in 2015 was awarded the John Vickery Drawing Scholarship. In 2016 she won the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award for the VCA Graduate show.
Dunn’s art practice focuses on figurative, narrative based works. She uses paint to explore her immediate surroundings and delve into the intimacy of domestic scenes and personal experiences. She investigates connections to place, memory and relationships, in particular, exploring the relationship between fictional and personal narratives and how they can be skewed or exaggerated.