Ella Doran

Ella Doran is a London-based designer and educator whose practice explores material narratives, colour and regenerative approaches to making. Working across textiles, interiors, furniture and spatial installations, her work foregrounds material literacy, colour and circular approaches to making. Alongside commissioned work for public and private clients, her interiors brand has developed award-winning collections bridging studio experimentation and industrial production.

In 2019, Doran presented her solo exhibition Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, tracing British wool from landscape to interior through transparency, collaboration and circularity. The accompanying documentary film, 'Fabric of the Land' by Paul Wyatt, was extended in 2025 and launched at the Cutty Sark.

As a Fellow of the RSA, Ella champions the principles of the circular economy through public engagement, teaching and participatory making. She has delivered lectures and workshops at institutions including the Barbican, the V&A and Clerkenwell Design Week, engaging diverse audiences in the creative re-use of materials, textiles and furniture. 

Doran is a co-founder of URGE Collective, an industry-facing platform dedicated to systems change through regenerative design, circular economy training and cross-sector collaboration. She holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Printed Textiles from Middlesex University and was among the early forerunners of applying digitally printed photographic imagery to everyday products in the late 1990s – a foundation that continues to inform her interdisciplinary approach today.