Zavier Ellis 'England (Video et taceo) I (Red)', 2026 Ink, emulsion, digital collage on gloss paper 29.7x21cm (11.7x8.3 in)

Offered at a special museum collector’s price of £50 to mark the simultaneous exhibitions 'This is England' at South Hill Park, Berkshire and 'The Life in a Line' at Heath Robinson Museum, London. 

'England (Video et taceo)' layers portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Byron, and Johnny Rotten into a single composite figure, collapsing centuries of cultural and political identity. Embedded within the image are fragments of a recent anti-immigration protest in Epping, intertwining past and present narratives of power and exclusion.

Worked over by hand with emulsion and marker, the piece recalls a defaced street poster. Elizabeth I’s motto “I see and am silent” reframes silence as both authority and complicity.

About Zavier Ellis:

Zavier Ellis read History of Modern Art at Manchester University (1993-1996) before undertaking a Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2003-2005). He has exhibited alongside contemporary and 20th century artists including Peter Blake, Michael Craig-Martin, Marcus Harvey, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Derek Ridgers, Antoni Tàpies, Mark Titchner, Gavin Turk, Keith Tyson and Mark Wallinger. Ellis has exhibited globally including Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; Saatchi Gallery, London; Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipėda; Royal West Academy, Bristol; Dean Clough, Halifax; Paul Stolper, London; Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt; Raid Projects, Los Angeles; ENIA Gallery, Pireas; and Blond Contemporary, London. His work is featured in prominent private collections including the seminal Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Zurich and Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach.