Ellie Hoskins, Bob

Bob, 

Work comes with hand written birth certificate for sculpture.

Newspaper, masking tape, mod roc, acrylic, emulsion, matt varnish

37 across 55 high 25 narrow (cm) widest points

Ellie Hoskins is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer from Cumbria, now based in Liverpool. Her work is diaristic and frank, combining slapstick millennial nihilism with an immersion in the rituals and details of everyday working life. Making and sharing her visual/text works online, she seeks to capture moments of private absurdity with self-deprecating clarity, emphasising their universality as she brings them out into the light. 

Ellie founded and facilitates the unofficial online art/writing school Phlegm, which culminated in an exhibition at The Royal Standard in 2021 and is currently in its second year. Other recent projects include a text installation on the exterior of Bluecoat, a collection of short texts commissioned by Montez Press, a reading at the ICA London, and a solo exhibition at OUTPUT.

This work is featured as part of the Convenience Store at the Manchester Contemporary in 2023.