Antoinette Ellis-Williams

Ellis- Williams is an emerging, Jamaican born, multi-media interdisciplinary abstract contemporary artist, playwright, scholar, and poet. Antoinette's ability to masterfully use storytelling in her art is reminiscence of an ancestral trait. She weaves familiar and unfamiliar narratives with abstract marks and lines to create vibrant kaleidoscopic works of art. Through her stories, she builds a shared global community, while allowing us to examine our past, present, and future. An advocate for women, she uses history, politics, culture, and imagination to tell their stories. Her work is a commentary on injustice, spirituality, joy, agency, and the textured lives of marginalized people.

Ellis-Williams’ creative process is based on layering, recycling, reimagining, and mixing media. She digitizes her original mixed media, oil, textile, photos, and acrylic work to create new collages. This technique offers endless possibilities to materials, dimensions, and time.