Elina Bry is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.
EDUCATION
2016-18 MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2012-15 BA in Fine Art, TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art
et de design - Le Mans, France
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
2022 ITEM, Introduction to Electronic Music - Lewis Cook
2021 Experimental Creative Writing - Dr Tawnya Renelle
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES & COMMISSIONS
2023 Radiophrenia, Live-to-Air Commission, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
2022 Walking to Connect, Beacon, Greenock, Scotland
Becoming Red, Cabbage, French Street, Glasgow, Scotland
“Trái tim của anh trai tôi, My Brother’s Heart”, MoT+++, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam
Mobile Radio, Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, Scotland
2021 GOHF Croundfunder, Performance Digital, Glasgow Open House Art Festival, Scotland
FAKE NEWS: Please Fund Me, Digital Perfomance, EMBASSY Gallery - IG, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019 If E was V: A Night into a Parallel Universe, Arkadia OY, Helsinki, Finland
Hells Belles, Barão de São João, Portugal
Bless Your Heart, EMBASSY, Edinburgh, Scotland
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2023 Matinee, Old Hairdressers, New Performance works, Glasgow, Scotland
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Baked Beans on The Door Step, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland
Fusion Food, with Hélène Cayet, La Générale, Paris, France
2022 Heathcote Blue does Pig Melon, Pig Melon Gallery, Perth, Western Australia
Difficult Listening, RTRFM radio, Perth, Western Australia
Visual Communication: The International Exhibition of Art Books, Zines, Three-
Dimensional Arts, and Moving Images Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand
Annuale, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Surge Established Specialists Residency Presentation, Scotland
2021 Biscuit Tin Festival, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ben & Jerry’s Green Cabaret, Saint Luke’s, Glasgow, Scotland
BUZZCUT Superstream, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Take Me Somewhere, Think Time Radio Station, Digital Residency, Glasgow/INT
2020 Radiophrenia, International Radio Station, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
The Opera of the Body with Mark Vernon, Celine Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2019 SourSop, Performance Evening, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
EXHALE/Berlin Art Week Decompression, ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin, Germany
Bankito Fesztival, Feeling Myself - Lakeside Clinic, Nograd, Hungary
GLA/NYC Love Hangover, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Dare you do this ? FFFF it! Taiwan Gangshan Dist Contemporary Art
Warehouse International Exchange Program, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Glide&Slide2, Performance Event, Keir Street, Glasgow, Scotland
2018 House Guests, Hampton Court Guest House, Glasgow, Scotland
Launch of Wet Courage, by E.C.C.O, Pipe Factory, Glasgow, Scotland
Glide&Slide, Performance Event, Keir Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Down Material Mouth, AMIF, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Morbus, Tontine Building, Glasgow, Scotland
Cabbage, Junkspace: Tap for Sound -Audio and visual screening, Glasgow, Scotland
International Bike Polo Championship: Hell's Belles Vol.8, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland
Speculation on Marsh Lands, The Carnival Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
SIMPLY BEAMING, Hope, Engaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Screening for Maruseppu Art Residency , Maruseppu, Hokkaido, Japan
MFA Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow, Scotland
MFA at CitizenM, Glasgow, Scotland
Esther Ferrer : "I’m Going To Tell You About My Life", Pearce Institue, GI Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Flat Cam, GY Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Skip Ad-Play, Savoy Center, GY Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
2017 Girls in Print: Female Figures in British Comics, Dundee, Scotland
MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Lights Out, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland
2015 The BIG Big Show, Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts du Mans, France
Premier Plan, Angers, France
Les Photographiques, Le Mans, France
2014 La Quinzaine Radieuse #6, Piacé-Le-Radieux, France
DMC & Friends at the Dourven,Gallerie du Dourven, France
At Home, Projet D’exposition en Appartement, Le Mans, France
PUBLICATIONS
2019 POST-POST AVANT-POSTE, Published by David Michael Clark
2018 Cabbitches, Published by JJ Tipton
Morbus., Published by Christiana Myers
If E was V, Graphic Novel, Les Editions Du Soleil D’Hiver
2017 Growing Up: That Girl Comic, Team Girl Comic, Women Comic Collective
2015 SCREENPLAY / SCÉNARIO, The Good Reader, Ma Bibliothèque
TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2023 Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Multilingual Comics Workshop, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland
2022 Culture Collective, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee, Scotland
Cooking Up A Zine, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland
What is home, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland
Invited Lecturer, Comic Book, Elective Glasgow School Of Art, Scotland
19-22 Creative Leader Tutor, Impact Arts, Central Belt, Scotland
2021 COP 26, Climate Hub, The New York Times, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland
2019 “Je n’ai pas de limite”, TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art et de design - Le Mans, France
2018 "JE, n'est pas le Sujet mais le Verbe", TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art et de design - Le Mans, France
2017 Panel Event : Women in Comics, Dundee, Scotland
Home, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland
RESIDENCIES
2024 Leisure Project, Isle of Yell, Shetlands, Scotland
Flow-Country Research Residency,Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland
2023 The Bothy Project, Self-Directed Residency, Isle of Eigg, Scotland
Residency at La Générale with Hélène Cayet, Paris, France
2022 Inverclyde Culture Collective Residency - Your Voice Recovery, Greenock, Scotland
Resilience Residency, Cabbage, French Street, Glasgow, Scotland
“Trái tim của anh trai tôi, My Brother’s Heart”, MoT+++, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam
Surge Established Specialists Residency, Scotland
2021 Jeremie Space, Digital Residency, France/UK
Thick Time Radio Station, Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow, UK/International
2020 Plastic Follies - Digital Residency, Scotland
2019 Preselected, Cove Park - Artist Moving Image Residency, Scotland
2014 Osthang Project, Living Together, Collectif Etc, Darmstadt, Germany
AWARDS, GRANTS & BURSARIES
2023 Bursary to attend SPRINGBOARD Assembly for Creative Climate Action, Scotland
Open Fund for Individuals, Creative Scotland
Inverclyde Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund, Scotland
2022 ITEM, Introduction to Electronic Music, Bursary, Scotland
Resilience Programme, Cabbage, Scotland
Travel Bursary, Buzzcut, Glasgow, Scotland
Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers, Creative Scotland
2021 Selected for Volunteer of the Year Award, Sustrans, Scotland
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
2023 Alchemy Film Festival Report, The Skinny, Scotland
Culture Collective, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Scotland
2022 Difficult Listening, RTRFM radio, Perth, Western Australia
Becoming Red, Cabbage, Scotland
2021 End of Residency Interview, Jeremie Space, between France & Scotland
Compulsive Workout, Glasgow Open House Festival, Scotland
2018 Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show, The List, Glasgow, Scotland
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