Elena Mary Harris is a Glasgow-based participatory artist and facilitator.
CV
UPCOMING PROJECTS
Summer 2020 – #BehindTheScreens, Any Possible Universe with Key Youth Centre, East Kilbride
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
2019 – EK Music, Any Possible Universe with Universal Connections @The Key Youth Centre, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
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, 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
2019/20 – Social Inclusion Coordinator, The Whiteinch Centre, Glasgow
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
2015/20 – 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
