Ella Trott is a painter whose practice centres around the relation between reality and representation, taking family archives and popular culture references as inspiration and subject.

She uses classical oil painting techniques to study the constant back and forth between dreaming and nostalgia and address the fatality and satire of over-romanticisation. Ella is particularly fascinated by our tendency to imprison ourselves in a state of ‘life-dysmorphia’, an unmissable dissatisfaction with one’s present state, a destructive belief that the object of one’s longing and desire is favourable over the now: the deceptively pessimistic belief that the grass is always greener.