Approved: 08.11.2017

Ellie Collins

Artist

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Approved: 08.11.2017

As an infant mouths a favoured toy, so a commuter absentmindedly fiddles with a coat buckle. A youth invisibly probes teeth with tongue. Meanwhile a tourist bunches and stretches sandalled toes.

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  • Location: Keelby, East

Artist Statement

As an infant mouths a favoured toy, so a commuter absentmindedly fiddles with a coat buckle. A youth invisibly probes teeth with tongue. Meanwhile a tourist bunches and stretches sandalled toes.

The desire to touch and be touched in small ways by our environment and the sensory gratification and transference of information derived from our embodiment is the basis for much of my work.

Since 2010 my practice-based research has increasingly taken on a multi-sensory aspect; pursuing the notion that our pre-reflective senses could disclose a plenitude of sophisticated inquiry.

Writing is a key element of my practice and is often a catalyst for analogous works in other media. These elements subsequently come together to form immersive environments.

I’m increasingly motivated to negotiate projects with other arts practitioners. I plan to exploit the potential to work with local, national and international peers via ...blip, occupying an empty shop in Grimsby through Axisweb’s Vacant Space initiative, in collaboration with Marc Renshaw and Tracey Payne.

CV & Education

EDUCATION AND AWARDS

2010-11            

MA Fine Art (distinction): Camberwell College of Arts

2005 & 2007      

ACE Grants for the Arts: Research and Development

SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS

2017      

...blip – a space for art: 8 Victoria Street, Grimsby. Via Axisweb’s Vacant Space initiative

2015                

B.mentored: Beacon Art Project, Wellingore, Lincolnshire

2011                            

5th International Tropical Lab Residency: Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore                                             

Joya Residency: Cortijada Los Gazquez, Andalucia Spain

‘On the Hoof’ participation: Peckham Space, London

Curatorial Projects: Gasworks and Beaconsfield, London

Sculptural Drawing: A Collaborative Endeavour: The Woodmill, London

2010                            

‘Journey by Choice’ Creative Partnership: Ganton School, Hull

2007                

AA2A Residency, HSAD: Hull

House of Art International Colony:  Kicevo, Macedonia

Paint a Future International Artist’s Symposium: Florianopolis, Brazil

2006                

No Boundaries International Artist’s Colony: Baldhead Island, NC USA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2015                

Art of the Lived Experiment: UICA, Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

2014                

Art of the Lived Experiment: Bluecoat, Liverpool

2013                

Shape Open: The Nunnery, London (touring)

Curiosity Acquired :20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

2011                

Flash in the Pan: Beaconsfield, London

10 Gales Prize: Bethnal Green, London

The Treacle Group Presents: Shop Jesus Lane, Cambridge

Curatorial Workshop: Gasworks, London

2010

No Boundaries Retrospective: UNCW Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Slipped Halo, Solo Exhibition: Ropewalk Gallery, Barton upon Humber

2008                

Solo, New Works on paper: Kuntur Gallery Amsterdam

2007                

No Boundaries Collection: Sawtooth Gallery, Winston, Salem. USA

Foreshore, Patriothall Gallery: Edinburgh

Alamance County Arts Counci: Graham NC. USA

 

House of Art Collection: Kicevo, Macedonia

Paint a Future Exposition: Galeria Multipla de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2006                

No Boundaries: ACME Studios, Wilmington NC USA