Global Landscapes Singapore: An Interview with artist Ella Spira MBE on art and life

Artist Ella Spira is a woman of many talents – she’s a Grammy nominated composer, painter and theatre producer. Active in the arts since the age of 16, Ella has worked with companies as diverse as The Royal Ballet, BAFTA, BBC, Arakan Creative, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Ministry of Sound, and Universal Music. And that’s not …


Grammy-nominated and MBE-awarded Ella Spira adds Singapore to her portfolio of ‘Global Landscapes’ featuring Ex Royal Ballet dancer Pietra Mello-Pittman MBE.

Renowned multi-cultural, Jewish-British artist and Grammy-nominated composer Ella Louvaine Spira MBE will be painting a set of landscapes in Singapore. The paintings will feature Ella’s lifelong creative business partner former Royal Ballet ballerina Pietra Mello-Pittman MBE. Spira and Mello-Pittman co-founded Sisters Grimm in 2009 with the mission to tell cultural stories that maximise diversity and address …


Production company Sisters Grimm plot move from Grammys to Disney

The tale of the Sisters Grimm is one that leads from an ambitious composer and a ballerina to huge, stage productions, the Grammys and, they hope, the home of fantastical storytelling: Disney. “The dream is to create a major stage work and do a screen adaptation with Disney,” says Ella Spira, a self-confessed obsessive of …