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Porky Hefer & Southern Guild, Plastocene – Marine Mutants from a disposable world, for NGV Triennial, 2020. Image credit: Tom Ross
Radical Beauty Project, 2022 presented at 180 The Strand, London
Shumeez Scott photographed by Antonia Steyn
Lea Colombo x COS, Cos flagship Coal Drop Yards London, 2022
Image credit: Cos
Lea Colombo, Colours of My Body publication, 2022
Image credit: Lea Colombo
Southern Guild at PAD London, 2019.  Image credit: Alain Potignon & Southern Guild
Lea Colombo, Colours of My Body, 2021. Cape Town. Image credit: Hayden Phipps
Xigera Safari Lodge, Okavango Delta, Botswana. Image credit: Dook
Rich Mnisi, Nyoka, 2021 solo at Southern Guild Cape Town gallery. Image credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild
Haas Brothers, Mouth-ew Broderick, 2019
Misha Kahn, Large Coffee Table, 2018. Image credit: Hayden Phipps
The Rigg Design Prize, 2025, NGV
Porky Hefer, Southern Guild and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Endangered, 2018, Design Miami/Basel
Image credit: James Harris  & Southern Guild
BMW activation, Colourfield - group exhibtion, 2019, Southern Guild, Cape Town. Image credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild
WallpaperSTORE* pop up, 2017, Southern Guild, Cape Town. Image credit: Kate McLuckie & Southern Guild
Lea Colombo, A Downward Evolution, 2022, 3537 Paris. Image credit: Lea Colombo
Lea Colombo  x COMME des GARÇONS limited edition shirt
Re-imagining the clubhouse, 2025, exhibition paste up, Melbounre Design Week. Image credit: Gareth Hemmings
Darcy Vescio, Almost Won, 2025 for Re-imagining the clubhouse
Melbourne Design Week. Image credit: Gareth Hemmings
Melbourne Design Week, 2026
Bala ga’ Lili (Damien Wright & Bonhula Yunupingu), Dhanparr Garak, 2024. Image credit: Bernie Wright
Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday, 2025, National Gallery of Victoria
Found Golf x OSKI campaign, 2025. Image credit: OSKI Studio
Xigera Design Safari. Image credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild
Villa Verte, guest house, Cape Town, 2018









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Ellen Keillar is a creative director working across curation, exhibition design, collectible design, interiors, and writing.

Ellen has over ten years of local and international experience as a design director for galleries and artists in South Africa and the UK, as well as working in the curatorial team for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at the National Gallery of Victoria, where she co-curated Melbourne Design Week in 2025 and 2026. Ellen is co-founder of the clothing brand Found Golf.

Education

MA Culture Criticism & Curation Central Saint Martins
University of the Arts London
2022

BA Industrial Design
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2015

BA Industrial Design
Parsons, The New School
2014

Experience

Galleries
National Gallery of Victoria
Odunpazari Modern Art Museum
Southern Guild
3537
Friedman Benda
R & Company
180 The Strand London

Fairs
Design Miami
Design Miami / Basel
Salon
Pad London
Melbourne Design Week
Melbourne Design Fair
Stockholm Furniture FairSelect Projects

Brands 
BMW
COS
COMME des GARÇONS 
Palm Angels
Wallpaper*STORE

Artists / Designers
Lea Colombo
Porky Hefer
Rich Mnisi
Andile Dyalvane
Chuma Maweni
Misha Kahn
Haas Brothers
Darcy Vescio
Millie Savage
Antonia Steyn
Damien Wright
Bonhula Yunupingu
Karabo Tlokotsi
Thabisa Mjo

Writing
NGV Magazine
Mother Digital Publication, NGV

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