About Dalee

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 community.  

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 handmade home, educate outside of school and grow some of their food, flowers and medicine. Their deep connections to each other and the land they live on are direct results of choosing to live a simple (but very full), 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. 

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Dalee Ella has worked with some incredible change makers in the community resilience, permaculture and herbalism spaces such as Kirsten Bradley from Milkwood, Jade Miles from Futuresteading, The Elder Tree, Young Farmers Connect, Wardell CORE 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.  Dalee holds a bachelor degree in fine art with a major in Printmaking from the Qld College of Art, Griffith University, Australia.