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                                                                                           BIO

 

 

 

 

 Educational Background

 

1977 - 78: Foundation Course, Herts College of Art and Design 

1981: B.A. Hons. Art and Design (Camberwell School of Art, UAL) 

1983: Dip. Art Therapy 

1989: M.A. Art Therapy

1992: Dip. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 

1998: M.A. Modern European Philosophy   

 

                                 

Exhibitions and Published Art and Photographic Work

2024

  • Photograph; reflecting on 'water under the bridge'. Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, N6 5HG. From 24th July to 12th August 2024.

  • Photographs: Cover image and second image inside for fLIP Magazine for London Independent Photograpy Theme    of Time.  April 2024. Photograph; reflecting on 'water under the bridge'. Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, N6 5HG. From 24th July to 12th August 2024.

  • Photobooks: Empty Shoes ... Lost Ground ... and coercion, alienation, resistance ... . In Photobooks by Women Photographers: Women's History Month Exhibition. 1 - 31 March 2024. Online https://alternativearts.org.uk/mary-lynne-ellis

  • Collages: In Shreds. In Loudest Whispers  Exhibition: St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery.     From 9th February 2024 to 10th May 2024.

  • Collage: lines of life. Cover image for Time in Practice; Temporality, Subjectivity, and Listening Differently (by Mary Lynne Ellis). Routledge 2024.

  • Photograph: reflections: outside in/inside out. In Construction Disclosure. In London Independent Photography Annual Exhibition at Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG. From 23rd  to 28th January 2024.

2023

  • Collage: speaking of diversity and transformation. In Emerald 20 Exhibition : St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 19th June to 29th September 2023.

  • Collages: on time and ageing. In Loudest Whispers  Exhibition: St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 6th February 2023 to 12th May 2023.

  • Photograph: ageing with courage and humour ... . In Attention : Vitality.  London Independent Photography Annual Exhibition at Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG. From January 24th - January 30th, 2023.

2022

  • Photographs: Older Women Rise. In Women's History Month Photo Open 2022 at The Brady Centre, Hanbury St. E1 5HU. March 3rd - March 31st, 2022: https://alternativearts.org.uk/mary-lynne-ellis

  • Collages: if black voices matter, listen ... and see ... and the radiance of moths and the pallor of white privilege.  In Loudest Whispers Exhibition: Politics in Art; the arc is long. Old Diorama Arts Centre, 201 Drummond Street, London NW1 3FE. From February 4th - March 31st, 2022. 

2021

  • Photograph. In online exhibition:  LIP Chronicles:  Life Goes On. London Independent Photography. From November 5th - 30th: https://www.lipchronicles.org/nature#10

  • Photographs: she nursed us, she clothed us, she taught us, she fought for us ... . Series of photographs of older Black women in Loudest Whispers Exhibition, St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From July 12th - September 30th, 2021.

  • Photographs: she nursed us, she clothed us, she taught us, she fought for us ... Photographs of older Black women in Loudest Whispers (online) exhibition. From February 5th - July, 2021:  https://theartsproject.com/theartsproject/loudestwhispersexhibition

  • Photographs: Older Women Rise. In Women's History Month Photo-Open 2021. Online March 1st - March 31st, 2021:  https://alternativearts.org.uk/mary-lynne-ellis

2020

  • Photograph. Group exhibition: LIP Chronicles: Life Under Lockdown (online). London Independent Photography. From November 1st - 30th.

  • Photographs: Marginalised Bodies, Marginalised Voices. In Loudest Whispers.  Exhibition, St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 7th February - 9th April.

2019 

  • Photographs: coercion, alienation, resistance ... Solo exhbition. In the Phoenix Cinema. East Finchley, London.

  • Collage: Fragility and Courage in Loudest Whispers. Group Exhibition. St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery.          

                        

2018

  • Photographs from exhibition coercion, alienation, resistance ... . In Camden New Journal, Islington Gazette, Ham and Hi, and Islington Tribune. 

  • Photographs: coercion, alienation, resistance ... Solo exhbition. In Resource for London, Holloway, London. 

  • Photographs: coercion, alienation, resistance ... Solo exhibtion. In Cafe Rustique/Literary Cafe, Tufnell Park, London.

                     

​2015    

  • Photographs: Loss... . In In the Making (Group Exhibition). AGIP Psychotherapy, Archway, London.

  • Photographs: Empty Shoes ... Lost Ground ... .Solo exhibition. Photographs. Cafe Rustique/Literary Cafe, Tufnell Park, London.     

       

2013 

  • Photographs: Identities Lived in Time. Solo exhbition. Cafe Rustique/Literary Cafe, Tufnell Park, London.

2012 

  • Skin... Photographs. Arts in AGIP (Group Exhibition). AGIP Psychotherapy, Archway, London.

2010   

  • Cover image (photograph) for Questioning  Identities; Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice, by M.L. Ellis and Noreen O'Connor. (London: Karnac, 2010).

2010 

  • Fingers of the Sea. Ceramics. Arts in AGIP (Group Exhibition). AGIP Psychotherapy, Archway, London.

  • Ceramics. (Group Exhibition). City and Islington College. Finsbury Park. London.

​2009 

  • Fingers of the Sea. (Solo). City and Islington College, Finsbury Park, London.

  • Ceramics. (Group Exhibition). City and Islington College. Finsbury Park. London.

 

2008

  • Timescapes. Collage. Time and Being (Group Exhibition). Society for Existential Analysis Conference. Regent's College, London.

  • Cover image (collage) for my book, Time in Practice: Analytical Perspectives on the Times of our Lives (London: Karnac, 2008).

1993

  • Cover image (collage) for Wild Desires and Mistaken Identitites; Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis, by Noreen O'Connor and Joanna Ryan (London: Virago, 1993).

1984

  • Blood and Strength. Sculpture. The Fertile Eye. (Women artists' group exhibition). Brixton Art Gallery, London.

  • Fragility and Courage. Collage. 100 Artists' Show. The Showroom Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.

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