About
Ellie Pearch works between sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work looks at architectural and administrative systems of order and human relationships to and within these structures. Recent work focuses on the threshold between the commute and the home. She seeks to find instances of intimacy in the modular, mass-experienced infrastructure of London: Suburban architecture, transport networks, Metro newspapers, Microsoft Excel. The walls of a house or the grid of a crossword are imagined borders between comfort and chaos. Ellie is interested in the unreliability of this border and the unease associated with its permeability. In navigating the line between public and private, she seeks to amplify instances where tenderness and admin are embedded in the same object.
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 Prince’s Foundation Diploma Year.
Ellie Pearch works between sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work looks at architectural and administrative systems of order and human relationships to and within these structures. Recent work focuses on the threshold between the commute and the home. She seeks to find instances of intimacy in the modular, mass-experienced infrastructure of London: Suburban architecture, transport networks, Metro newspapers, Microsoft Excel. The walls of a house or the grid of a crossword are imagined borders between comfort and chaos. Ellie is interested in the unreliability of this border and the unease associated with its permeability. In navigating the line between public and private, she seeks to amplify instances where tenderness and admin are embedded in the same object.
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 Prince’s Foundation Diploma Year.
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
Selected Exhibitions
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
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
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
Selected Exhibitions
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
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