LMH alumna Elleanna Chapman (2021, Fine Art) is currently exhibiting at the Saatchi Gallery as part of a group show organised by Good Eye Projects, which runs until 1st March 2026.
Elleanna Chapman alongside her artwork Attack of the 50 Foot Comrade, which is on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
Photo of Elleanna ©Hayley Jay.
Elleanna, who graduated from Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art in 2024, participated in Good Eye Projects’ Summer 2025 residency. The exhibition brings together artists from the programme’s Autumn 2024, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025 residencies.
Good Eye Projects supports emerging artists by providing free studio space in West London across three residencies each year. Since its launch, the programme has supported 60 artists and collaborated with institutions including Christie’s and the Saatchi Gallery - one of the UK’s most prominent venues for contemporary art, which is known for introducing emerging artists to wider audiences.
Elleanna’s work explores the relationship between art and politics, often drawing on working-class histories, popular culture and visual languages associated with “low” art. Working across media, particularly installation, she combines playful, familiar imagery with more serious themes, inviting viewers to look again and think more deeply.
The piece on display in the Saatchi Gallery is titled: Attack of the 50 Foot Comrade (2026). Created using rhinestones, glue, acrylic, plywood, inkjet prints on paper, and wheatpaste, the artwork features a militant Beyoncé holding the very first issue of The Communist, the fortnightly newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party. It recently received a write-up in Fetch Magazine.
Elleanna said of her work: “I am increasingly interested in the life of images and how we steal, appropriate, and reimagine the ideas of those that precede us. Stealing (bootlegging, knocking-off, etc.) images feels increasingly relevant under an economic and political system where workers are forced to rent everything and anything – from our homes, to films, music, and culture. With a more communal spirit in mind, Attack depicts a bedazzled rendition of an illustration titled Comrade Lenin Cleans the Earth from Scum. Originally created as a newspaper cartoon by Mikhail Cheremnykh, Comrade Lenin was then made famous in 1920 at the hands of Viktor Deni who circulated the work as a Bolshevik lithograph poster, before the illustration was then reprinted as the inaugural cover of The Communist in 2024. Today, Comrade Lenin has been translated yet again, this time via approximately 30,000 rhinestones.”
Elleanna has participated in group shows across the UK and was awarded the Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize, The Supporting Act Foundation Creative Bursary, and The Eaton Fund in 2022, 2023, and 2025, respectively. She has been an artist in residence at Good Eye Projects, Hypha HQ, WOMB with Bow Arts, Cambridge Artworks and Art Space, and The Koppel Project. Exhibiting at the Saatchi Gallery marks an exciting new step in her career.
Elleanna's artwork on display in the Saatchi Gallery
The artwork features over 30,000 rhinestones
