exhibitions + events
2023
Beyond Text: Innovative Poetry Festival (January)
2021
Last Fridays, Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse (November)
Folkestone Fringe: Sub-Plot, old Gasworks site (October)
2020
Domestic presented by Word of Warning on Zoom (October)
Generations 3 Sharing Event, Student Theatre UAL: Central Saint Martins (March)
MISC: MA Performance Design & Practice Live Works on Zoom, part of UAL Graduate Showcase (August)
UAL Graduate Showcase (July- online archive)
Dancer in Handbag at Home by Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company (May)
2019
F_able navigates: another space, another time Art Walk, Roman Road (November)
Tomorrow We Will Be Lighter Than Air: Part 1 & Part 2, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen (May)
Performer in Copernican Dream// we are not alone by Kelsey Yuhara, Aylesbury Learning Centre, Elephant & Castle (November)
Contemporary dancer in Nothing Makes Sense, Arts Dance Showcase, Bridewell Theatre (March)
Dancer in Handbag by Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company, Shoreditch Town Hall (October)
Work in Progress, The Street, UAL Central Saint Martins (January)
Performer in p e r f o r m 1 3 0 6 1 9 by Michael Spencer in Formations, Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space, Prague Industrial Palace (June)
2018
Graftin (BA Fine Art) Kingston School of Art Degree Show, Kingston School of Art (June)
Painting by Numbers, Kingston School of Art (March)
Amuse Bouche Presents: Entrée, Kingston School of Art (March)
Amuse Bouche, 17 Hawks Road Kingston (March)
2017
Critarta, Kingston School of Art (November)
Remnants: Redefining Printmaking, Safehouse 1, Peckham (May)
Mark I’m Out, Give it a Rest, Kingston School of Art (May)
Museum of Futures: Visual Poetry Exhibition, Museum of Futures, Surbiton (February-March)
America Square, America Square, Tower Hill (PV February- Permanent Collection)
Inventory of Behaviours: Blip Blip Blip, East Street Arts, Leeds (February)
No Working Title, Uniqlo Tate Lates, Tate Exchange (January)
2016
Unpalletable, Kingston School of Art (December)
Bring Mum and Dad, Kingston School of Art (May)
Performer in short film Learning It (produced from an interview between Jo Addison and Alice Walton in Play Ground 4) exhibited at Art…Is, Tate Modern (April)
Fling, 41 Spelman Street, Shoreditch (February
2014- 2015
University for the Creative Arts: Canterbury Graduation Show, Canterbury (May- June)
Mouton/Sheep at the Art Sequana Event with UCA and the ICR Project, University of Rouen (February- April)
Platform 1, Herbert Read Gallery (February 2015)
John Downton Awards: Young Artists Exhibition, Maidstone County Hall (October- November 2014)
published works
Graphic design for Opening the Door: a report on Generations 3 by Hannah Zeilig (December 2020)
Runner up Rusthall A Picture Tells All, (July 2014)
Shortlisted Tate Collective Open Call #Everyday Dora Maar, Uniqlo Tate Lates (January 2020)
Featured Assemblage artist in MURZE Visual Arts, Issue 7 (July 2019)
Illustrations for Cat Tales: An Anthology of Short Stories (June 2016)
residencies + awards
Inteatro Villa Nappi, Polverigi, Italy. Movement workshop with Athina Valha (February 2020)
Residency at Tatwerk and Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, Berlin. Created the collaborative performance Tomorrow We Will Be Lighter Than Air: Part 1 (March- May 2019)
Inteatro Villa Nappi, Polverigi, Italy. Site-specific performance workshop with Geraldine Pilgrim (February 2019)
Awarded the Stanley Picker Travel Grant for a research trip to the Shetland Islands (July 2017)
ELLY RUTHERFORD 