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1st August 2010

Plymouth College of Art

1st January - 1st June 2009

In 2009 Ellie was artist in residence at Plymouth College of Art. For the first four months of the year she made a monthly research visit to the college to conduct a series of workshops and tutorials with students and to develop a major new installation Vending Machine for her solo exhibition at the college’s Viewpoint Gallery from 23rd April - 30th May 2009. To coincide with the launch of the exhibition, Plymouth College of Art Press published the special book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector which reflects upon Ellie’s previous ‘data collecting’ works and features a specially commissioned text by Sally O’Reilly.

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Braziers International Artists’ Workshop

3rd - 19th August 2008

Ellie was selected to attend summer 2008’s Braziers International Artists’ Workshop. As a development from previous years, this workshop had a specific emphasis on collaboration through risk-taking and the questioning of existing working methods. The selected artists were by Edwina Ashton, Jonathan Baldock, Katy Beinart, Hangfeng Chen, Sunoj Damodaran, Julia Defferary, Steven Eastwood, Ghalib El-Khaldi, Evgenia Golant, Ellie Harrison, Isabelle Krieg, Olawole Lagunju, Barak Reiser, Chris Schiavo, Mia Taylor and Pauline Thomas.

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Operation Treasure Hunt

1st - 19th October 2007

Ellie was invited by The City Gallery in Leicester to take part in Operation Treasure Hunt - a Creative Partnerships project at Imperial Avenue Infant School in Leicester. Ellie spent five days in residence at the school together with three other artists Frances Bossom, Glenn Boulter and Francis O’ Donnell Smith. Ellie’s Names animation, made in response to the project was shown at the The City Gallery from 11th July - 30th August 2008 as part of the exhibition A Process of Living.

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I’ve Been Watching You

17th November 2003 - 7th June 2007

For three-and-a-half years Ellie was Undercover Artist in Residence at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. Assuming the role of usher she spent her shifts getting to grips with the inner workings of the cinema and expanding her knowledge of contemporary film. After ‘coming out’ as an artist in 2007 she was asked to present her findings as one of the commissions for the launch of Digital Broadway - the cinema’s new digital arts programme alongside works by Marcus Coates, Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie and Annie Watson.

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Part-time

26th June - 23rd July 2006

Ellie was one of the three artists commissioned by the Liverpool-based artist-run organisation Prime, to take part in the project Part-time. The artists were required to spend four weeks working undercover in low-wage jobs and to make work in response to their experiences. Ellie was not able to find one employer for the entire time, but instead did a variety of jobs, temping working, interviews and training sessions in and around Nottingham. Ellie formed the Union of Undercover Artists alongside the other two artists, Elizabeth Kearney and Joanna Spitzner, as one of their major responses to the project.

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Bath Time

5th - 18th June 2004

For two weeks, Ellie was artist in residence at Victoria Baths in Manchester - a popular, ornate Victorian swimming pool complex which has been closed to the public since 1993. Ellie used her period of residency to research for her web-based commission Bath Time. The residency was part of the Transition art programme, which ran at the baths from 2003 - 2004 and culminated in the exhibition For the Time Being: A Promise of Progress at from 4th - 19th September 2004 at which Bath Time was launched.

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LabCulture

15th - 22nd September 2002

LabCulture was a series of week-long intensive digital arts residencies attended by ten artists, which were coordinated by PVA and took place at different arts and media venues around the UK. Ellie was selected to attend the 2002 Lab at Watershed in Bristol alongside Alinah Azadeh, Cleo Broda, Ross Dalgleish & Spencer Nicholls, Gair Dunlop, Rowena Easton and Louise K Wilson. With technical production assistance from Duncan Speakman, Ellie produced the interactive computer based piece TicTac Typing & Peanut Typing.

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