Elena Mary Harris is a Glasgow-based participatory artist and facilitator.
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UPCOMING PROJECTS
Autumn 2019– Youth Film Club, Any Possible Universe with Universal Connections @The Key Youth Centre, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
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 PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
2019– Creative Communities: Artist in Residence, Ward 12: Victoria Park, Glasgow Life
2018– Reimagined Structures, 6-month residency and exhibition, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
2017 –I Hear the Image Moving, collaborative exhibition and performance with refugee community members, Tramway, Glasgow, October 2017
2016– The Empire Pavilion 2016, local engagement project culminating in exhibition and community meal, House for an Art Lover & Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
2015– Elena Mary Harris, The Plinth, 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
2018 – Superkidz Film Club, Any Possible Universe, film club w/ ASL young people, East Renfrewshire
2015 – Freed Market: How do we feed ourselves?, documentary exhibition of socially engaged creative facilitation project, SeventeenGallery, 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– Organisation Secretary, Repair Café Glasgow, Glasgow
2017– Share My Table Lead Artist, 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
2015/18– Creative Advocacy Worker, 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
