Clarke

Ella Clarke is a designer working across architecture, theatre, landscape and the arts.
Ella trained in architecture at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Architecture before graduating with distinction in planting design from the London College of Garden Design, awarded the Judge's prize. She currently works on projects throughout the UK across landscape, installations and architecture.
Recent works have combined experience across all disciplines, working with a range of materials, spaces and collaborators.
At the core of Ella’s ethos is placing people at the heart of designs, creating spaces that engage with those that use them. Whether this is blurring the boundary between audience and performer or creating connections between indoor and outdoor spaces, she believes understanding the way spaces are used is the key to effective design.
2022
Installations
2025
A Symphony of Flesh and Bones: designer
Manchester International Festival: Aviva Studios
2024
In the Ruins of The Big House: designer
Factory International: Aviva Studios
2023-25
Imagine Bamboo: lead artist/facilitator
Imagineer Productions
2022
R&D: Raising a Barn at The Factory building
Manchester International Festival
2022
Collective Art Installation: From Nothing to Something
Godiva Festival, Daimler Powerhouse
2021-22
RIBA Show Windows: Boundless Hope
Coventry City of Culture
2020-22
Studio and exhibition: Radford Bubbles
Coventry City of Culture
Theatre
2022
Costume sourcing/making: As You Write It
Shakespeare North Playhouse
2022
Costume sourcing/making: Queen's Jubilee Pageant
Imagineer Productions
2022
Costume design/sourcing/making: Milesians
Imagineer Productions
2021-22
Costume sourcing/making: Allesley Silas
From the Heart Theatre
Architecture
2022-25
Design tutor: second and first year studios
(residential and community-based spatial design)
Coventry University Department of Architecture
2018-20
Residential, education, arts
MICA Architects
2017-18
Residential, education, commercial
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
2017
Residential, mixed-use, small-scale, community
Emmett Russell Architects
2015-16
Residential, commercial
Make Architects
Landscape
2025
Telling Stories, Making Memories
RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Awards and accolades
2024
Judge's Prize - Growing together: Ready Generations Nursery Garden, London College of Garden Design
2019
Group think-tank project exhibited as part of NLA's Future Streets exhibition
2015
Final-year project nominated for the RIBA President's Medals Bronze award
Contact
If you have a project you would like to collaborate with me on or you would like to discuss working together in the future please contact me using the details or form below.
07989880339