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
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Photograph; reflecting on 'water under the bridge'. Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, N6 5HG. From 24th July to 12th August 2024.
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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.
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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
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Collages: In Shreds. In Loudest Whispers Exhibition: St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 9th February 2024 to 10th May 2024.
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Collage: lines of life. Cover image for Time in Practice; Temporality, Subjectivity, and Listening Differently (by Mary Lynne Ellis). Routledge 2024.
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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
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Collage: speaking of diversity and transformation. In Emerald 20 Exhibition : St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 19th June to 29th September 2023.
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Collages: on time and ageing. In Loudest Whispers Exhibition: St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 6th February 2023 to 12th May 2023.
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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
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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
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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
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Photograph. In online exhibition: LIP Chronicles: Life Goes On. London Independent Photography. From November 5th - 30th: https://www.lipchronicles.org/nature#10
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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.
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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
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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
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Photograph. Group exhibition: LIP Chronicles: Life Under Lockdown (online). London Independent Photography. From November 1st - 30th.
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Photographs: Marginalised Bodies, Marginalised Voices. In Loudest Whispers. Exhibition, St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery. From 7th February - 9th April.
2019
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Photographs: coercion, alienation, resistance ... Solo exhbition. In the Phoenix Cinema. East Finchley, London.
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Collage: Fragility and Courage in Loudest Whispers. Group Exhibition. St. Pancras Hospital Conference Centre and Gallery.
2018
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Photographs from exhibition coercion, alienation, resistance ... . In Camden New Journal, Islington Gazette, Ham and Hi, and Islington Tribune.
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Photographs: coercion, alienation, resistance ... Solo exhbition. In Resource for London, Holloway, London.
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Photographs: coercion, alienation, resistance ... Solo exhibtion. In Cafe Rustique/Literary Cafe, Tufnell Park, London.
2015
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Photographs: Loss... . In In the Making (Group Exhibition). AGIP Psychotherapy, Archway, London.
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Photographs: Empty Shoes ... Lost Ground ... .Solo exhibition. Photographs. Cafe Rustique/Literary Cafe, Tufnell Park, London.
2013
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Photographs: Identities Lived in Time. Solo exhbition. Cafe Rustique/Literary Cafe, Tufnell Park, London.
2012
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Skin... Photographs. Arts in AGIP (Group Exhibition). AGIP Psychotherapy, Archway, London.
2010
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Cover image (photograph) for Questioning Identities; Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice, by M.L. Ellis and Noreen O'Connor. (London: Karnac, 2010).
2010
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Fingers of the Sea. Ceramics. Arts in AGIP (Group Exhibition). AGIP Psychotherapy, Archway, London.
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Ceramics. (Group Exhibition). City and Islington College. Finsbury Park. London.
2009
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Fingers of the Sea. (Solo). City and Islington College, Finsbury Park, London.
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Ceramics. (Group Exhibition). City and Islington College. Finsbury Park. London.
2008
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Timescapes. Collage. Time and Being (Group Exhibition). Society for Existential Analysis Conference. Regent's College, London.
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Cover image (collage) for my book, Time in Practice: Analytical Perspectives on the Times of our Lives (London: Karnac, 2008).
1993
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Cover image (collage) for Wild Desires and Mistaken Identitites; Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis, by Noreen O'Connor and Joanna Ryan (London: Virago, 1993).
1984
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Blood and Strength. Sculpture. The Fertile Eye. (Women artists' group exhibition). Brixton Art Gallery, London.
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Fragility and Courage. Collage. 100 Artists' Show. The Showroom Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.