Awarded Global Fellowship 'The Starling Collective' with Giving Tuesday
2022 - 2023
AMANZE film (created for The Photobook Project, with Lucy Hawes Production) shared widely and awarded
2021 - 2025
Highlighting the impact of dementia on the black community and, in particular, telling the story of Ronald Amanze's life who was diagnosed at age 58.
Shown at: Go Mental (Berlin), Mental (Lisbon), Introduce London, Nottingham Film Festival, Covent Garden Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival. Awarded Honourable Mention at Covent Garden Film Festival.
Awarded place on Multiplier Programme, The Cares Family
2021 - 2022
Awarded place on Multiplier Programme by Cares Family, funded by UnLtD (130 applied, 10 places). Includes £10,000 funding for “My Dementia Life Matters” project, to create training package for The Photobook Project, coaching with Iona Lawrence of Jo Cox Foundation, a film made about the project and groundbreaking workshop programme.
Awarded In-Residence with the Inclusivity Project, creating an evidence-base for carers’ involvement in The Photobook Project
2021 - 2022
Awarded In-Residence with the Inclusivity Project to develop care home training pack for The Photobook Project
Winner of Cultivator Cornwall Grant to complete International Certificate in Intergenerational Practice, Generations Working Together
2020
Winner of Graduate Start up Programme, Cultivator Cornwall
2018 - 2019
Exhibitor & Winner of ‘Hope & Renewal’ Photography Competition, Exeter
2017
Award for Outstanding Studentship
2016
Award for Outstanding Studentship on completing of MA Illustration: Authorial Practice at Falmouth University
Creative Spaces Project Manager
2016 - 2025
Ellie managed the Creative Spaces project, supporting people living with dementia and their carers to access outdoor spaces and connect with nature, as well as others in their community - including intergenerational activities
Founding Artistic Director
2015 - 2025
Empowering people living with dementia and their communities through the arts. Ellie created the project as part of her MA Illustration: Authorial Practice 2014-16 and it became a CIC in 2022. The project works with communities around the world, shining a light on innovative models of practice and sharing people with dementia’s unique stories.
"Only Connect!" An international community symposium about the benefits of creative intergenerational and inclusive practice and research
2022
We came together to connect on a deeper level. To be vulnerable and engage in new creative approaches to these complex community challenges.
“Relationship building is conscious, not accidental”
Susan Langford, Magic Me
Compounded by living our lives in and out of lockdowns, with services stretched like never before and the postcode lottery being an increasing reality, we reflected on these last three years, celebrating the powe of creativity to connect, rejuvenate, empower and give voice to those who need it most at a time when they need it most.
“You need the brain, but leave the thinking to the heart”
Ronald Amanze, A Box of Smiles
This three day conference involved and connected people at all levels of the system to the work one another are doing. We invited all delegates into this process, so everyone could truly understand through their own participation and connection why they are essential to the fabric and future of our society.
We believe that moments like these are when systemic change can happen and how we can, more than ever, be in a position to scale up this essential, important and groundbreaking work.
"Only Connect!" An international community symposium about the benefits of creative intergenerational practice and research
2019
“I didn’t know that I could die of lonelines until I almost did”
Trevor Synge Perrin, Ambassador for Sensory Trust
In 2019 Ellie brought together people from across the system to create a unique space for connection and to challenge the barriers that face our communities. With a focus on intergenerational practice and research, the conference gave people living with dementia, care commissioners, creative practitioners, young people, national organisations, international representatives of intergenerational projects the opportunity to connect, interrogate and celebrate creative solutions to widespread disconnection and isolation across our communities.
Convenor & Plenary Speaker at 11th International Conference on Vascular Dementia, Amsterdam
2019
Convenor & Plenary Speaker at 11th International Conference on Vascular Dementia, Amsterdam. “Creativity, Community & Connections: Empowering people with dementia through artistic practice”
Speaker at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Britisth Society of Gerontology
2023
Conference presentation about the power of the arts to shed light on sensory changes experienced when living with dementia
Speaker at Alzheimer Bulgaria Conference 2023, speaking about dementia education
2023
Keynote Speaker about Socially Engaged Practice and Resarch at the Ginkgo Forum, Truro and Penwith College
2021 - 2025
Speaking to Foundation Diploma in Art and Design students, and various Arts BA subjects
Speaker at 12th International Dementia Conference: Transforming Care and Communities, Engaging Dementia. Dublin. ‘The Photobook Project: A creative framework empowering people living with dementia and their wider communities’
2020
Speaker at ‘Chaos’ forum, Falmouth University. “Hello Neighbour!”
2019
Speaker at ‘Chaos’ forum, Falmouth University. Ellie spoke about her residency “Hello Neighbour!” at Humanitas Deventer, Holland.
Winner of Creative Investment Grant from Cultivator Cornwall to speak at 11th International Conference on Vascular Dementia, Amsterdam & 12th International Conference on Alzheimer Rehabilitation, Stockholm
2019
Speaker at Ageing in Place Conference, London
2019
Panelist as part of discussion on technology in dementia care
Speaker at lllustrating Mental Health, University of Worcestor. “Pass the Baton!”
2019
Speaker at ‘Beyond Words’ Conference, Plymouth University
2017
Speaker at ‘Beyond Words’ Conference, Plymouth University. “Why are we going around in circles?”
Speaker at ‘The Monstrous Forum’ Falmouth University
2017
Speaker at ‘The Monstrous Forum’ Falmouth University. “Pokemon Go: The Monstrous Transitory Space”
Speaker at 'Marking Domains' Conference ICA London
2017
Speaker at ‘Marking Domains’ Conference ICA. “Pokemon Go: The Monstrous Transitory Space”
Exhibitor & Speaker at Embodied Cartographies, Fringe Arts Bath
2017
Exhibitor & Speaker at Embodied Cartographies, Fringe Arts Bath. “Observations by the Happy Wanderers”
Speaker at the International Illustration Conference ‘Shaping the View’, Edinburgh College of Art
2016
Speaker at the International Illustration Conference ‘Shaping the View’, Edinburgh College of Art. “Why are we going around in circles?”
Consultant for The Linking Network, supporting the development and delivery of a Dementia Ambassador programme for secondary schools in Bradford (UK)
2023
Consultant for iGen, Evidence Synthesis Review with University of Exeter and University of Sheffield. Visit Ellie’s blog page to read a blog post and listen to a podcast by the team.
2021 - 2024
Consultant for iGen, Evidence Synthesis Review with University of Exeter and University of Sheffield. Visit Ellie’s blog page to read a blog post and listen to a podcast by the team.
International residency with Dementia Dogs, Alzheimer Bulgaria and Every Dog Matters EU
2023
International residency with Dementia Dogs, Alzheimer Bulgaria and Every Dog Matters EU, funded by Daughters of the Daily Special
Featured in Frankie Magazine about The Photobook Project
2022
Interviewed by Frankie Magazine about The Photobook Project, released in print and online across the globe.
Interviewed by It's Nice That magazine for an Opinion Piece
2022
Awarded funding from the Ideas Fund to work with Butterflies (Hull) and MSc Dementia to deliver The Photobook Project and create an evidence-base for the benefits for people living with dementia
2021 - 2023
Awarded funding from the Ideas Fund to work with Butterflies (Hull) and Dr Emma Wolverson to deliver The Photobook Project and create an evidence-base for the benefits for people living with dementia
Ambassador for The Creative Health Project with Arts Well
2021 - 2023
Ambassador for The Creative Health Project with Arts Well, covering Launceston and the Tamar Valley (Cornwall)
International Residency with Run Tomo Japan, titled "Pass the Baton!"
2019
“Pass the Baton!” residency in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan with Run Tomorrow project. Funded by Daiwa Foundaton, September 2019
International Residency at Humanitas, Deventer titled ‘Hello Neighbour!”
2018
Ellie spent a month at Humanitas, embodying the role of a student there and living alongside her elder neighbour - Joke. This resulted in collection 7 of The Photobook Project: "Hello Neighbour!", funded by the Arts Council International Development Fund
Internship with Atlantic Press Books
2014 - 2016
Completed internship with Atlantic Press Books, Falmouth. Included: supporting artists and writers in the design of their books, marketing & social media, representing the press at national book fairs
VL on MA Illustration, Falmouth University. Focus: Residencies and Fundraising
2022 - 2025
Creative Director for Homes that Care Project with MA Illustration at University of Plymouth
2022 - 2024
Supervisor for The Reader Project, MA Illustration 'Illustration and Mental Health'
2021
Mentor at The Photographer's Gallery, London
2021
VL for BA Drawing, Falmouth University. Focus: Residencies and Fundraising
2020 - 2025