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Artistic ceramic sculpture of a woman's face integrated with natural forest surroundings.

CURRENTLY ON EXHIBIT

Another Room: Salon des Refusés

Gallery 881 Lens-based Contemporary Art Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
April 1 to 30, 2026

I am exhibiting Transhuman Symbiosis in a Speculative Ecosystem 01

Another Room: Salon des Refusés is a month-long photography exhibition and public programming initiative that creates parallel space for diverse photographic practices, dialogue, and community engagement. Programmed concurrently with Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival, there is a robust program of talks, exhibits and tours through-out the city during the month of April. I’d like to express my gratitude to the organizers, sponsors, and patrons who all contribute in making these events possible and to the curators and other artists for enriching us with your work and your perspective.


CURRENTLY ON EXHIBIT

FUSION Clay + Glass Ontario
January 2026 to January 2027
Juror: Teresa Dunlop

My sculpture, Mother and Child, was juried into this virtual exhibition.

Designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries, the CONNECT ONLINE exhibit at FUSION Clay + Glass Ontario, offers an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of clay and glass practices from across the community. Bringing together artists from different backgrounds in various stages of their careers, the exhibition showcases contemporary clay and glass across functional and sculptural practices–from Ontario and beyond.


2026 Creating for Change

Township of Langley Civic Building
January 24 to March 12, 2026

I am participating in this juried group exhibition with my piece, Hope for the Future Blue.

Sponsored by the Langley Arts Council

This juried group exhibition features works exploring urgent social issues and the ways our unique identities influence how we experience, understand, and confront injustice. Artists have been invited to address themes such as racism, homophobia, sexism, and poverty, climate change, land displacement, and more.


Contemporary figurative ceramic sculpture by Ellen Scobie

2025 Shape and Form Exhibit

Federation of Canadian Artists

Awarded Honourable Mention Sculpture Category

December 1 to 31, 2025

My sculpture, Molecular Rewrite (Standing Figure), was juried into this annual international online exhibition.


Baring, Daring, Sharing art exhibit at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre, BC, 2024 of paintings and sculptures by local Fraser Valley artists

Baring Daring Sharing

Chilliwack Cultural Centre

October 23 to November 23, 2024

An exhibition of live-model studies by artists from Vancouver Island to Chilliwack, organized by Susan Gorris of Art in the Country Studios in Aldergrove, BC. For over 10 years, Susan has arranged studio sessions with live models where artists are invited to come and work on a long, four-hour pose. This exhibit showcases artwork from these sessions and the models who inspire them. The Baring, Daring, Sharing Exhibition is on at the O’Connor Group Art Gallery at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre from October 23 to November 23, 2024. I am participating with two sculptures and a digital painting, Quest to Self-Actualize in the Age of Commodification.


AX 2023 National Emerging Ceramic Artists Exhibition

AX Arts & Cultural Centre of Sussex
Sussex, New Brunswick
December 8, 2023 to February 24, 2024

The jury selected my sculpture, Standing Figure Nude, for this inaugural group exhibition of emerging ceramic artists from across Canada.

Jurors: Joan Bruneau, Magdolene Dykstra, John Leroux, Noriko Masuda, Peter Powning

Hand-built ceramic sculpture in semi-abstract style with painted finish

Standing Figure Nude by Ellen Scobie

“This portrayal of a nude figure is not a celebration of some romantic (or commercially) idealized notion of what the female form should look like but a bold portrayal of a body that has experienced the woes and joys of a life lived. … Ellen Scobie’s direct, tactile approach to this figurative sculpture, along with its rich surface finish, successfully draws us into an encounter that asks us to imagine this figure’s life.”

–AX National Emerging Ceramic Artists Exhibition catalogue


Sculptural ceramic figure with torso composed of boxes of various sizes. Painted finish in tones of gray and ochre.

Fraser Valley Biennial 2023

PRESENTED AT

The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford

January 27 to May 6, 2023

My sculpture, Figure with Box Torso, was included in this biennial exhibition of 22 artists from the Fraser Valley.

Curated by Candace Couse

FROM THE CURATOR:

“The body is taught, and it teaches. The body transforms environments through labour. It is the slate on which scripts are written, and here the body keeps both secrets and score. It is porous, leaky, boundaryless, and thus not fully controllable by historical or dominant understandings. The body, in this context, opens as a site of meaning where it is understood as product and producer of biological or social limitations and constructs. In short, the body becomes a place for experimentation as it holds multiple and contradictory representations rich for exploration.”

–Candace Couse, Fraser Valley Biennial 2023 Catalogue

RACHEL TOPHAM PHOTOGRAPHY


The Ceramics Congress Cat Exhibition, juried international virtual exhibition

An International Ceramic Cat Show

Artists from 12 different countries have been brought together for this unique, whimsical, and thought-provoking exhibition.

May 25, 2022
The Ceramics Congress, Austria

The Ceramics Congress is a bi-annual online event bringing together ceramics artists from around the world for 5 days in May and November. It host workshops, artist talks, technical advice and demonstrations, exhibitions, vendor expo, makers market and many interactive social events. Thousands of attendees participate each time making this the number one online international ceramic event.

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