ABOUT

Education

Royal College of Art MA Painting, 2023-2024

Edinburgh College of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, 2017-2021 - First Class Honours

Exhibitions

Toilet Etiquette, Bermondsey Arts Club, London, 2023

A Slash of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, 2023

Colour Exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, 2023

SSA 130 Years | 30 x 30, The Royal Scottish Academy, 2022

Late at Tate Britain: Art Now, Shawanda Corbett, Tate Britain, 2022

Contemporary Painting Exhibition, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, 2022

Spring Exhibition, London Lighthouse Gallery, London, 2022

Alt-D TENDERFOOT, Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, 2022

Nasty Woman Revive, Open House Hackney, London, 2022

Edinburgh College of Art - Graduate Show 2021, The University of Edinburgh, 2021

Room With a View, Google Arts and Culture, 2020

Autonomy Exhibition, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh, 2020

Space Jam, Reid Concert Music Hall, Edinburgh, 2020

Filling Voids, Edinburgh College of Art, 2019

Christmas Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, 2018

untitled DOKument, DOK Artist Space, Edinburgh, 2018

Ela Ertan (b.1999) is a contemporary artist from London, and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021, where she studied Painting BA (Hons). Ertan is a colourist painter, and her abstract works particularly explore the subject of the sky, and interior/exterior environments.

Ertan also has a love for photography, and thoroughly enjoys analog photography depicting both urban and rural landscapes.

As well as her passion for Fine Art, Ertan also enjoys writing, Film and TV, and music.