Still Water was Ella’s first solo exhibition, held in the Art Hole Gallery from the 4th to the 9th of November, 2019. Still water is the part of a stream where there is no current visible, a place of slow transition before the flow resumes. A state that seems analogous to the transitional periods in life we face before choosing the path we will take into the future. The exhibition was a continuation of a previous photographic project entitled From the Muddy Banks, which sought to create a biography of the Waimakariri River, mapping the ways we utilise, shape, and value this significant waterway as both resource and taonga. As the project progressed, Ella traced the physical and psychological pathways that led her to the river, analysing her place within this landscape and what draws us into nature.