CV + BIO
Lives and works in Lancaster and Morecambe
Associate Lecturer in Fine Art, Lancaster University
elliecbarrett@gmail.com
@EllieCBarrett
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2024
April – Handmade Soft Play exhibition, Lancaster City Library
March – Play, Make, Build, 3 public play sessions with In-Situ, Pendle
Feb – Finding Place, participatory research project, facilitated by Jenny Peevers, Morecambe
2023
Feb – Sept – Mini Micro-Gardens, collaborative commission for Creative West End
Feb – March – The Grass is Blue, solo exhibition Jeweller’s, Morecambe
2022
June – Personal Histories at Festival of Making, Blackburn
May – Let Them Eat Fake, Bomb Factory, London, curated by Bad Art
2020
Oct – Breathing Space, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
Oct – Objects, Lancaster University
March – Explain Things to Me, solo show, Subsidiary Projects, London
Feb – More T’North, the Harris, Preston, curated by Harris Young Producers
Feb – The Potion Room, Subsidiary Projects, London
2019
Sept – I Know That You Know, Wells Projects, London
July – Club Editions, Index Festival, Leeds
Jan – Wish in One Hand, Sh*t in the Other, Hanover Project Space, Preston
RESIDENCIES
2024
Nov 23 – March – In-Residence, In-Situ, Pendle
2022
Sept – Rock Up!, Rocky Climates research group residency, Whitley Bay, supported by ArtHouses
2021
Sept – Art of the City, Preston Bus Station, supported by Derelict Live
2019
June – Joya AiR, Los Velez national park, Spain
PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS
2024
March – Anything, Here, artist’s talk for In-Situ, Pendle
2023
June – The Non-Expert, paper presented at “An Elastic Continuum” symposium, hosted by NMRG and supported by University of Derby.
2021
June – Material Arts Network, research publication, artist’s book, in collaboration with Kerry Tenbey
May – Ceases to be Solid, text piece, Tenderfoot, commissioned by Laura White
2020
Oct – Maker’s voices: four themes for material literacy in contemporary sculpture, in Journal of Visual Art Practice, 19(4).
2019
Aug – Material Sensitivity, the ethics of contemporary art production, commissioned by IPPR
June – Getting Our Hands Dirty: the material encounter in contemporary sculpture as a catalyst for social change; the 14th Arts in Society Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
Jan – artist speaker at UCLAN, Preston
EDUCATION
2017 – 2020 PhD Contemporary Art, Lancaster University
2011 – 2012 M.Litt Fine Art Practice (Sculpture), Glasgow School of Art
2007 – 2010 BA Fine Art, Lancaster University
ELLIE BARRETT 