Ellie Tessa Godworth is a Melbourne-based artist with a practice that sits at the intersection of craft and contemplative, contemporary sculpture. Exploring the boundary between reality and fiction, her work weaves precious and found materials into immersive compositions that open sensory spaces of harmony, ambiguity, and potential. Blending the tangible and imagined, the work invites reflection of the material object’s role in both personal and transcendent narratives.
Beginning her training in gold and silversmithing at the Enmore Design Centre in 2012. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Honours from RMIT and is currently pursuing a PhD, supported by an RTP Scholarship, at RMIT’s School of Design and Social Context.
Beginning her training in gold and silversmithing at the Enmore Design Centre in 2012. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Honours from RMIT and is currently pursuing a PhD, supported by an RTP Scholarship, at RMIT’s School of Design and Social Context.
EDUCATION etc etc
2025
PET PROJECTS , Athens, Internship
2023-2027
RMIT University , PhD (Art) Design & Social Context
2020-2020
RMIT University , Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours
2018-2019
RMIT University , Bachelor of Fine Arts, (Gold and Silversmithing
2012-2014
Enmore Design Centre, TAFE, Sydney, Jewellery & Object design Advanced Diploma
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Mission to Seafarers-Melbourne, (Nov.—Dec. 2024), ‘GRAVITY&GRACE---GYM HYMN’
2024
RADIANT Pavillion 2024, (Sept.—Oct. 2024),
‘Colour Stories’- Group Show
2023
Craft Victoria , (03 Oct.—04 Nov. 2023),
‘Maritime Ode: JJ Search & The Possible Port’
2022
CRAFT CONTEMPORARY, Craft Victoria+online publication, (01 Oct.—30 Oct. 2022),
‘Modicum-Ular-Mechanics: The Industrial Artisan’
2021
Rendering: Jewellery & Objects, Radiant Pavilion,
(08 Sep.—07 Nov. 2021), online -exhibition Melbourne
2020
Graduate Showcase, work selected,
Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2019
Profile; Biennal Curated Award Exhibition for Jewellery, JMGA, Sydney
2015
Line of the Arc; Rudimentary Ceramics, C.R.E.T.A, Rome
2015
Jewellery in Australia; From Antiquity to Now,
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
SCHOLARSHIPS, Awards, Residencies
2025
Travel Grant: Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2023
Scholarship: Australian Government Research
Training Program Scholar, PhD, RMIT, Melbourne
2019
Student award, Gold & Silversmithing, RMIT
2019
McCraith Scholarship in Fine Art, RMIT
2015
Conceptual Rigour,
Design Centre Enmore
2015
GOTYA; Graduate of The Year Award, finalist,
Design Institute of Australia
2015
The One to Watch, Design Institute of Australia
2025
PET PROJECTS , Athens, Internship
2023-2027
RMIT University , PhD (Art) Design & Social Context
2020-2020
RMIT University , Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours
2018-2019
RMIT University , Bachelor of Fine Arts, (Gold and Silversmithing
2012-2014
Enmore Design Centre, TAFE, Sydney, Jewellery & Object design Advanced Diploma
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Mission to Seafarers-Melbourne, (Nov.—Dec. 2024), ‘GRAVITY&GRACE---GYM HYMN’
2024
RADIANT Pavillion 2024, (Sept.—Oct. 2024),
‘Colour Stories’- Group Show
2023
Craft Victoria , (03 Oct.—04 Nov. 2023),
‘Maritime Ode: JJ Search & The Possible Port’
2022
CRAFT CONTEMPORARY, Craft Victoria+online publication, (01 Oct.—30 Oct. 2022),
‘Modicum-Ular-Mechanics: The Industrial Artisan’
2021
Rendering: Jewellery & Objects, Radiant Pavilion,
(08 Sep.—07 Nov. 2021), online -exhibition Melbourne
2020
Graduate Showcase, work selected,
Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2019
Profile; Biennal Curated Award Exhibition for Jewellery, JMGA, Sydney
2015
Line of the Arc; Rudimentary Ceramics, C.R.E.T.A, Rome
2015
Jewellery in Australia; From Antiquity to Now,
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
SCHOLARSHIPS, Awards, Residencies
2025
Travel Grant: Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2023
Scholarship: Australian Government Research
Training Program Scholar, PhD, RMIT, Melbourne
2019
Student award, Gold & Silversmithing, RMIT
2019
McCraith Scholarship in Fine Art, RMIT
2015
Conceptual Rigour,
Design Centre Enmore
2015
GOTYA; Graduate of The Year Award, finalist,
Design Institute of Australia
2015
The One to Watch, Design Institute of Australia
