Education
Royal College of Art, London MA Painting, 2023-2024
Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, 2017-2021 - First Class Honours
Exhibitions
Power in Pride, The Castle Cinema, London, 2025
Royal College of Art - Graduate Show 2024, The Royal College of Art, 2024
Queer Time, The Outsiders Gallery, London, 2024
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 London-based painter, photographer, writer, and musician.
Her practice explores memory, fantasy, identity and place through rich colour, light, and atmosphere. Drawn to emotional rawness, her work often takes on a diaristic quality. Working across disciplines allows her to move fluidly between mediums, with each informing and enriching the other.
Ertan studied BA Painting at Edinburgh College of Art (2021) and MA Painting at the Royal College of Art (2024).