About
My practice involves fixating on the standardized and mass-produced apparatus of domestic and city life to dig out buried vulnerabilities, intimacies and narratives. Some of these are there to be excavated, but some have to be fantasized, extrapolated from scraps. This search is motivated by the strong emotions I feel in certain places alongside a curiosity for how materials can be mis-functioned beyond their original context. I try to balance introspection with a search for common ground. Cardboard, coat hooks, toilet paper, concrete: Familiarity is important, I want you to recognize the generic materials I choose. Like these objects, the feelings and memories I draw upon are both personal and generic: Stunted conversations, missing someone, closing the front door. Formal qualities of materials (proximity, weight, roughness, rigidity) give me metaphors for emotional states and relationship dynamics. While the work holds an abject confession of my own feelings and memories, I hope a recognition takes place which allows you to overwrite my memories with your own.
Bio
Ellie graduated from Fine Art Sculpture at Brighton University in 2016. She is currently studying MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University 2022-24. In 2016 she was selected as a participant on Into The Wild, a year long artist development programe run by Chisenhale Art Place. In 2016 she was nominated by De La Warr Pavilion for the Platform Graduate Award. Her work has been shown at De La Warr Pavilion, East Bristol Contemporary and Chisenhale Art Place alongside project spaces based in London and Brighton. She was born in Enfield, London in 1994 and continues to live and work in London. She is a visiting tutor at The King’s Foundation Diploma Year.
My practice involves fixating on the standardized and mass-produced apparatus of domestic and city life to dig out buried vulnerabilities, intimacies and narratives. Some of these are there to be excavated, but some have to be fantasized, extrapolated from scraps. This search is motivated by the strong emotions I feel in certain places alongside a curiosity for how materials can be mis-functioned beyond their original context. I try to balance introspection with a search for common ground. Cardboard, coat hooks, toilet paper, concrete: Familiarity is important, I want you to recognize the generic materials I choose. Like these objects, the feelings and memories I draw upon are both personal and generic: Stunted conversations, missing someone, closing the front door. Formal qualities of materials (proximity, weight, roughness, rigidity) give me metaphors for emotional states and relationship dynamics. While the work holds an abject confession of my own feelings and memories, I hope a recognition takes place which allows you to overwrite my memories with your own.
Bio
Ellie graduated from Fine Art Sculpture at Brighton University in 2016. She is currently studying MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University 2022-24. In 2016 she was selected as a participant on Into The Wild, a year long artist development programe run by Chisenhale Art Place. In 2016 she was nominated by De La Warr Pavilion for the Platform Graduate Award. Her work has been shown at De La Warr Pavilion, East Bristol Contemporary and Chisenhale Art Place alongside project spaces based in London and Brighton. She was born in Enfield, London in 1994 and continues to live and work in London. She is a visiting tutor at The King’s Foundation Diploma Year.
Selected Exhibitions
Flesh and Blood, duo show with Michalis Karaiskos, curated by Pengyi Li, No Format Gallery, London, 2024
Sludge Signals, duo show with Lucie Holzer, Take Courage Gallery, London, 2024
Not Found, Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show, London, 2023
Approximate Distance, hARTslane, London, 2023
Taste the Difference, Hypha studios, London, 2023
Instant Karma, SET Lewisham, London , 2019
Low Entertainment, Arch 5 Hackney Central, London, 2018
EBC018, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, 2018
The Fear Is Back, Chisenhale Art Place, London, 2017
Blue Sky Thinking SET Capstan House, 2017
Soft Opening SET Studios, London, 2017
Platform Graduate Showcase, De La Warr Pavilion, 2016
Fine Art Degree Show, University of Brighton, 2016
The Five Abstractions, Atelier 51 Gallery, Brighton, 2016
North Lodge Residency, Cawdor Castle, Scotland, 2015
Shift, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, 2015
Summer of Somewhere to_ , Circus Street, Brighton, 2015
After Image, Artista Gallery, Hove, Brighton, 2015
Education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, 2022-2024
INTO THE WILD artist development programme with Chisenhale Art Place, 2016-2017
Fine Art Sculpture BA, University of Brighton, 2013-2016
Awards and Publications
Emotional Art Magazine, Haunted - Intimacy in a digital age, 2019
Selected for INTO THE WILD, Chisenhale Art Place 2016-2017
Shortlisted for The Platform Award by De La Warr Pavilion 2016
@elliepearch
eleanor.pearch@gmail.com
Flesh and Blood, duo show with Michalis Karaiskos, curated by Pengyi Li, No Format Gallery, London, 2024
Sludge Signals, duo show with Lucie Holzer, Take Courage Gallery, London, 2024
Not Found, Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show, London, 2023
Approximate Distance, hARTslane, London, 2023
Taste the Difference, Hypha studios, London, 2023
Instant Karma, SET Lewisham, London , 2019
Low Entertainment, Arch 5 Hackney Central, London, 2018
EBC018, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, 2018
The Fear Is Back, Chisenhale Art Place, London, 2017
Blue Sky Thinking SET Capstan House, 2017
Soft Opening SET Studios, London, 2017
Platform Graduate Showcase, De La Warr Pavilion, 2016
Fine Art Degree Show, University of Brighton, 2016
The Five Abstractions, Atelier 51 Gallery, Brighton, 2016
North Lodge Residency, Cawdor Castle, Scotland, 2015
Shift, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, 2015
Summer of Somewhere to_ , Circus Street, Brighton, 2015
After Image, Artista Gallery, Hove, Brighton, 2015
Education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, 2022-2024
INTO THE WILD artist development programme with Chisenhale Art Place, 2016-2017
Fine Art Sculpture BA, University of Brighton, 2013-2016
Awards and Publications
Emotional Art Magazine, Haunted - Intimacy in a digital age, 2019
Selected for INTO THE WILD, Chisenhale Art Place 2016-2017
Shortlisted for The Platform Award by De La Warr Pavilion 2016
@elliepearch
eleanor.pearch@gmail.com