Elena Mary Harris is a Glasgow-based community artist and facilitator.
CV
EDUCATION
2012-2015 – BA(Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, The Glasgow School of Art
2011-2012 – Foundation Diploma, University of the Creative Arts, Epsom
SOLO PROJECT/EXHIBITIONS
2018 – Reimagined Structures, 6-month residency and exhibition, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
2017 – Share My Table: I Hear the Image Moving, collaborative exhibition and performance with refugee community members, Tramway, Glasgow, October 2017
2016 – The Empire Pavilion at KPC, public installation in community garden, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
2016 – The Empire Pavilion 2016, local engagement project culminating in exhibition and community meal, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2015 – Glasgow Fort Knitting Club, durational community project, Easterhouse, Glasgow
2014 – La Distesa Sconfinata Della Argilla, Pisticci, Basilicata
2014 – Argilla, Creativita e Convivialita!, artist facilitated community event, Marconia, Basilicata
2014 – The Pisticci Woman, installation alongside Lucania Film Festival, Basilicata
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS/EXHIBITIONS
2015 – Freed Market: How do we feed ourselves?, documentary exhibition of socially engaged creative facilitation project, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen
2015 – Best of Degree Show, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow
2015 – All you can eat, Truman Brewery, London
2014 – Scotch, series of collaborative installation with Silvia Forese, Basilicata
2014 – I AM [Gold/Blue/Green/Pink] FOR YOU: Vernissage, Fleming House, Glasgow
2014 – Conversational Curry, The Green Room Gallery, Krakow
2014 – Robisz filmy krotkometrazowe?, public film project, Rynek Kleparski, Krakow
2013 – Rihanna’s Been Shot, Union Gallery, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
2013 – 100 Hours, Studio 41 Gallery, 41 West Graham Street, Glasgow
RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/COMMISSIONS
2017/18 – Volunteer Board Member, Repair Café Glasgow, Glasgow
2017 – Share My Table Facilitator, Tramway & Scottish Refugee Council, Glasgow
2017/18 – Artist in Residence, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
2017/18 – Community Artist in Residence, AiRspace at Plantation Productions, Govan
2016 – AiRborne Residency, supported by House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2016 – ThinkBig Grant, O2 Think Big Project Fund
2016/18 – Arts Coordinator, Aims Advocacy, North Ayrshire
2015 – Freed Market: How do we feed ourselves?, commission supported by Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden and Aberdeen
2014 – Tracce Maestre Residency, supported by the Lucania Film Festival and the European Capital of Culture Commission, Pisticci, Basilicata
2013 – SRC Student Initiated Project Fund, Glasgow Student Representative Council
2012 – John and Anna Laurie Bequest Undergraduate Scholarship, Glasgow school of Art
2010 – Silver Commonwealth Vision Award, The Royal Commonwealth Society
ARTICLES
‘The Empire Pavilion 2016’ by Clare McIntyre, http://www.kinningparkcomplex.org
‘Tracce Maestre’ by Rosanna Santagata, Mondo Basilicata, http://www.consiglio.basilicata.it
