Graham ELLARD

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Graduated from ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON, 1986.

Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are
-"The Pavilion" (w/Stephen Johnstone), group, parallel event to the Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, 2017
-"Things to Come" (w/Stephen Johnstone) in 'Moholy-Nagy: Future Present', group, Guggenheim, New York, 2016
-"For an Open Campus" (w/Stephen Johnstone) parallel event to the Aichi Triennial, solo, Satellite Gallery, Nagoya, 2016
-"Everything Made Bronze" (w/Stephen Johnstone) in 'Display Show', group, Stroom, Den Hague, 2016
-"Neue Museen" (w/Stephen Johnstone) solo, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 2011

Other activities (including awards received) are
-"Anthony McCall: notebooks and conversations", book, (w/Stephen Johnstone), pb. Lund Humphries, London, 2015
-"Studios for Artists: concepts and concrete", book, (w/Jonathan Harvey), pb. Black Dog, London, 2015

As an artist I have collaborated with Stephen Johnstone since 1993. Since 2007 we have worked exclusively in 16mm film to explore specific built locations - typically modernist and often 'visionary' - at times combined with archive material, drawings, models and studio recreations.

About works / performance

The Pavilion, Timber, approx. 7m x 15m x 3.5m. A temporary structure in a public space as a site for an exhibtion. Part of the Folkestone Fringe in parallel with the Folkestone Triennial 2017, Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone

La Mer (Four hands. Two dancers. Two films), Live dance, film, piano performance. 2018, Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, with Tony Thatcher
For an Open Campus, 16mm film, colour, sound, 29 mins. 2016,
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone.

Cut. Cast. Reveal, 16mm film, colour/black and white, silent. 9 mins, looped. 2016. Installation view: Shoko Shoreikan, Ritsurin Garden, Takamatsu, Japan. As part of the Setouchi Triennale.
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone

Everything Made Bronze, 16 mm film, colour, sound, 12.30 mins. looped, with acrylic and gold leaf model. 2013. Installation view: Satellite Gallery, Nagoya. Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone

Things to Come, 16mm film, black and white, silent. 2011
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone