Dalee Ella is an artist printmaker, illustrator and textile designer who works to create intricate lino prints for papers, fabrics, books and publications. Her work focusses on themes of relational reciprocity and connection to the natural world, to land, self and each other.
For the past 13 years Dalee has lived and worked on a beautiful intentional community, on Bandjalang country in northern NSW Australia. Alongside her husband and two boys, they continue to work together to build their natural handmade home, educate outside of school and grow abundant food gardens. Their deep connections to each other and the land they live on are direct results of choosing to live a simple, DIY life that allows the time flexibility and space to learn diverse skills and develop practices as artists and low impact contributors to the future. It is directly from Dalee's earthy everyday experiences, living this chosen lifestyle, that she draws most of her inspiration and credits her values as an artist and as a human.
​Dalee Ella has has worked with some incredible change makers in the community resilience, permaculture and herbalism spaces such as Kirsten Bradley from Milkwood Permaculture, Jade Miles from Futuresteading, The Elder Tree, Young Farmers Connect, Wardell CORE Community Resilience Hub and Pip Permaculture Magazine She continues to work with ethical, slow fashion designer Clare Greshke on their collaborative all Australian Made hand printed wearable art collections over at Slow Fashion Australia. She also writes and share long form vlogs about her creative process and lifestyle on Substack. Dalee holds a bachelor degree in fine art with a major in Printmaking from the Qld College of Art, Griffith University, Australia.
