Ella Frears

Ella Frears is a poet and visual artist based in London. Her pamphlet Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity was published by Goldsmiths Press. Her debut collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and T. S. Eliot Prize. She has had poems in the London Review of Books, Poetry London, Ambit and The Rialto among others and was a finalist for the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. She has completed residencies for the National Trust, Tate Britain, K6 Gallery and Royal Holloway University. Her collaborative installation The Six Pillars of Modernism, was exhibited at Tate St Ives. Since her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisting, her hybrid work Goodlord (Rough Trade Books, 2024) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Sky Arts Awards’ Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Author photo © Etienne Gilfillan