Ella Morreale is a multidisciplinary textile artist and printmaker. Through material practices, she explores themes of identity, the body, intimacy and the self. Morreale employs text and gestural drawings applied to the fibre, utilizing surface design techniques such as polychromatic printing and stitching. Her practice is rooted in intuition. Working in the same manner, one would pull a tarot card; each piece is embedded with text and symbols which define an archetype of the self. She draws her inspiration from the shadow self and the parts of ourselves we keep hidden. Her work investigates you and me and how we connect through our collective undoing.
Morreale is Hamilton-born, now Toronto-based. She is a recent Graduate of OCAD U, having just completed her Thesis in Material Art and Design. She was awarded and began his role as a full-time Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre on June 1, 2025.