elliecbarrett@gmail.com
@EllieCBarrett
Lives and works in Lancaster
Co-Director of GRAFT
Former director of The Royal Standard
Academic and Part-time tutor at at Lancaster University and City & Guilds Art School
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Feb: The Grass is Blue (Jewellers, Morecambe)
2021
May: Personal Histories (sculptures commissioned by Festival of Making installed in Blackburn Bus Station)
April: Soft Hands On Mossy Rocks (With Kerry Tenbey, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool)
2020
March: Explain Things To Me (Subsidiary Projects, London)
2018
June: General Store (with Flora Bradwell, curated by Hewing Wittare, London)
2016
April: HOT / FRESH / SLICE (AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent)
2015
June: Aisles of Rust (Plinth, Glasgow)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
June: Graduate showcase at the Festival of Making (Blackburn)
April: Let Them Eat Fake (Bomb Factory, London. Curated by Bad Art).
2020
Oct: Breathing Space (Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Arts, Lancaster)
Feb: The Potion Room (Subsidiary Projects, London)
Feb: More T’North (the Harris, Preston, curated by the Harris Young Producers)
2019
Sept: I Know That You Know (Wells Projects, London)
July: Club Editions (commission for Index Festival, Leeds)
Jan: Wish in One Hand, Sh*t in the Other (Hanover Project, Preston)
2018
Aug: The Boy’s Club Secret Open House (secret location in Surrey Quays, London)
Aug: Fatal Attraction (Thamesside Studios, London)
July: Eminent Domain (ex Robert Miller Gallery, New York)
March: Artists and Food (film screening, Elmer, London)
2017
Sept: Small World (PS Mirabel, Manchester)
Aug: Nasty Women (Cross Street Arts, Wigan)
Aug: Let Them Eat Fake (Bones and Pearl, London)
June: Changelings (the Flying Dutchman, London)
May: Junk in the Trunk (touring exhibition, visiting Bones and Pearl, Copeland Carpark, Turf Projects and the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London)
Jan: Last Chance to Paradise (Collar MCR, Manchester)
2016
Nov: Touch Me Baby (curated by Bad Art at Bones and Pearl, London)
Sept: WORK IT! (group exhibition with Your Beautiful Collective as part of Artlicks Weekend 2016, A-Side B-Side Gallery, Hackney)
Aug: 30/30 (group show curated by 12o Collective, Stoke Newington, London)
March: Pivot (group show curated by Common Ground, Project Cafe, Glasgow)
2015
Dec: Cascading Relevant Information (group show curated by Crown Building Studios, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool)
Oct: Isla Nublar (group show, Constellations, Liverpool)
Aug: Treat Yo Self (group show curated by It’s All (Tropical), Bloc Projects, Sheffield)
Feb: BamBamBam (group show, the Royal Standard, Liverpool)
2014
May: Testing Bed: Light Night (group show, the Royal Standard, Liverpool)
2013
Nov: GSA M.Litt Sculpture 2011 – 2014 (group show, the Whisky Bond, Glasgow)
Oct: Clandestine (group show, Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool)
Mar: Open Show (group show, An Lanntair, Stornoway)
Feb: Erottaa +- Us (group show, the Glue Factory, Glasgow)
2012
Nov: Masters of Letters Degree Show (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Oct: Masters of Letters Degree Show (Bermondsey Project Space, London)
Sept: Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show (the Lighthouse, Glasgow)
Sept: Masters of Letters Degree Show (Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow)
Mar: Three Constrictions (group show, the Art School, Glasgow)
Jan: I Had Been on Autopilot (M.Litt Sculpture interim show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow)
2010
Sept: Borderland (group show, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool)
June: Twenty Ten – Lancaster University Fine Art Degree Show (Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster)
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
2020
Festival of Making, graduate commission 2020 recipient
Lancaster Arts, acquisition for permanent collection
RESIDENCIES
2022
Sept: Rocky Climates, Whitely Bay, supported by ArtHouses
2021
Aug: Art of the City, Preston Bus Station, supported by Derelict Live.
2019
June: Joya: AiR, Los Velez, Spain
2017
Oct: I Carried a Watermelon; Instagram residency with Shelf
2015
Oct: Common Ground Residency, Braemar
April: Newbridge Project Exchange, Newcastle
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
2023
June: The “Non-Expert”, paper presented at An Elastic Continuum symposium at S1 Artspace, Sheffield, produced by New Materialist Reading Group and supported by the University of Derby.
2021
May: Ceases to be Solid, digital text piece commissioned by Laura White for Tenderfoot
2020
Oct: Maker’s voices: four themes for material literacy in contemporary sculpture, published by Journal of Visual Art Practice
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 