Ellen works within an expanded practice that encompasses time-based media, facilitation, and curation. Working to interlace correspondence, rehearsal and duality, she produces multi-practitioner projects that expand from these motifs and emphasise collaboration, merging online and in-person outcomes.

She is a founder and co-director of Screen Service, a non-profit arts organisation facilitating experimentation and connectivity for early-career media artists in Ireland. In 2024 she curated a major retrospective of the work of artist John O’Connor for An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk. Ellen is from Co.Louth and has been supported by The Arts Council in 2022, 2023 and 2025.