Ellen Christiansen is a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors.

She won the Talos Prize 2011, Founders Sculpture Prize 2015 and the Heatherley’s Prize 2018. Her portrait of Elisa was included in the Revelation of the Head exhibition at Messums, Wiltshire, 2018.

Ellen has been teaching since the early 90s and currently teaches portrait sculpture masterclasses at the Art Academy, London and with the Society of Portrait Sculptors in her studio in London.

She employs a ‘pointing’ measuring system which originated in stone carving and was developed for working from life by Brian Taylor FRBS (1935 – 2013) who was her personal tutor at Camberwell Art School where he taught for 20 years.