The work of contemporary painter and sculptor Ella Helman is distinguished by a dynamic interplay between abstraction and figuration. Her large-scale compositions — vivid, impassioned and intensely chromatic — are animated by broad gestural brushstrokes that stand in deliberate tension with a more formal visual language, incorporating realistic and finely rendered motifs through processes of collage, layering and modular framing. Her practice interrogates the notion of dreaming across different historical periods, while exploring the emotional resonances that connect the contemporary world with that of our ancestors. Drawing equally from the urban environment, the natural world, art history and mythology, the artist constructs a visual vocabulary in which temporalities and sensibilities converge.