Ella Heckendorf’s practice is a frantic play of organised chaos and polychromatic palettes. Interested in testing the boundaries of excess and elements of bad taste, her work becomes a free fall of multidisciplinary endeavours. Often focused on expressing states of euphoria and saturation of colour, her work becomes a labyrinth of pattern, print, texture, form, textile and material. Her current collection of works is a direct reference to nostalgia of the 80s and 90s time of kitsch textile and taste.

Collaging both detailed knitting patterns and existing ugly sweaters, the work mutates into a chaotic abstraction of textiles. Contrasting her interests in colour theory and form, her work crosses the borders between painting, collage and abstraction attempting to bleed them together creating a new form. Sculpturally the work aims to perform a sense of playful disobedience towards the existing masculine architecture, looking to subvert this dominance and shift the power in an eccentric manner.