BIOGRAPHY
Ella Barclay (B.1981 Bendigo) is an artist concerned with the transfixing, impulsive and intuitive behaviours brought about by new technologies. In 2006 she obtained an MSc. in Digital Media with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh, courtesy of the British Council Scotland Scholarship and subsequently graduated with the John Lansdowne Media Art Award. In 2007 she was an active member of the international collective FutureAcademy StudioLab, with whom she conducted exhibitions and symposia in Edinburgh, Tokyo, Akiyoshidai and for the Documenta 12 Magazines project in Kassel. Since 2008 she has exhibited extensively at artist-run and project spaces and selected regional galleries in NSW, with some invitations to exhibit interstate and internationally. She has been a board member at runway magazine (2009-11). In 2011 she undertook an Asialink residency at Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan and was shortlisted for the Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, exhibiting at Artspace, Sydney.
ELLA BARCLAY
B.1981 Bendigo, Australia | Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Education
MSC. DIGITAL MEDIA with Distinction, University of Edinburgh 2005-06
B. ART THEORY (HONS), College of Fine Arts, Sydney, 2000-04
B.ARTS (ENGLISH), University of New South Wales 2000-04
Selected Solo Exhibitions
QUICK DIP, db project, Sydney 2010
VELLEITY STUDY, GRANTPIRRIE|WINDOW, Sydney 2009
SHIT RIP, First Draft Gallery, Sydney 2009
CHORAL SWELL, MOP Projects, Sydney 2009
RAVE JARS Gaffa Gallery, Sydney 2008
STONE SOUP Gaffa Gallery, Sydney 2008
LUCKYBUNDLE launch at Alison House, Edinburgh, 2006
TOUGH NUGGETS with Vicki Papageorgopoulos, First Draft Gallery, Sydney 2005
A NIGHT OF BRIEF EXCITEMENT, The Wedding Circle Gallery, Sydney 2005
#FREE!! Gallery Wren Project Space Gallery Wren, Sydney 2005
Selected Group Exhibitions
HOUSE WORK, curated by Diana Smith, Performance Space, Sydney, December 2011
HELEN LEMPRIERE TRAVELLING ARTS SCHOLARSHIP (shortlisted, forthcoming), Artspace, Sydney 2011
FOR THE LOLZ (Forthcoming), Curated Sandra Di Palma, Tin Sheds Gallery, 2011
ILLUMINATIONS + BAD FAITH, Curated by Todd McMillan, Bondi Pavillion Art Gallery, 2011
PHENOMENONONONONONONON Curated by Marley Dawson +Christopher Hanrahan, SCA Gallery 2010
REFLEX, Curated Geoff Facquar-Still, Gaffa, Sydney 2010
BIG THOUGHTS, Curated Jennifer Turpin + Pete Volich, MOP, Sydney 2010
FIDELITY, Curated Kelly Robson, Gaffa, Sydney, 2010
SCEGGS REDLANDS ART PRIZE, Selected by Daniel Boyd, Mosman Gallery, 2009
ARCADE PARK, BETA Spaces, Brooklyn 2009
SHOWING OFF, Bathurst Regional Gallery 2009
APPEAR OFFLINE, Albion Place, Sydney 2009
BY GEORGE! LANEWAY FESTIVAL, facilitated by City of Sydney Council, 2008-09
DAY JOB FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Winner Projects, Sydney 2007
WHO’S HERE, curated by Naoko Horiuchi, Police Box Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, 2007
THE LIVING NEWSPAPER, Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany, July 2007
AKIHABARA GORILLA WORK FAIR with M-Lab, Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, 2007
FUTURE ACADEMY GAMES EXCHANGE, Akiyoshidai International Artists Village, Japan 2007
FROM SMALL THINGS (BIG THINGS ONE DAY COME), Curated by Liz Reidy for 1/2 Doz, Chauvel, Sydney 2007
A CONSTRUCTION OBSTRUCTION ABSTRACTION School of Informatics, Edinburgh 2006
WARREN Next Wave Festival, Docklands, Melbourne 2006
Selected Articles
Tubbs, Marian; For the Lulz: Exhibition Review, Art and Australia: Summer 2011
Yen, Sam; 'Public Art',Going Places, Malaysia Airlines Travel Magazine, December 2011
McDonald, John; 'Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship', Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 October pp 12
J.D Reforma; 'ROFL-UTION: Rolling and Trolling For the Lulz', DAS500, July 2011
Sophia, Olivia; 'Round and Round in the Night", Runway:Return October 2010
Frost, Andrew; "Metro Picks', Sydney Morning Herald 27 August 2010 p.14
Fogarty, Rich; "Sydney's Best Young Creative People" Concrete Playground, June 2010
Concrete Playground Eds, Conspirators: A Snapshot of Creative Sydney June 2010
Robson, Kelly; Gaffa: Short Story #1, published by Gaffa, 2009.
Lacey,Stephen “Game on as screen images mount a gallery invasion” SMH 27 April 2009
Good Game, ABC TV interview regarding “One More Go One More Go”. ABCTV Airdate 23 February 2009
McKenny, Leesha "Big Guns Shake Up the Art of the City", Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2008
Frost, Andrew; "In the Name of Contemporary Art I Put my Head in a Garbage Bin”Sydney
Morning Herald,(Opinion), 19 April 2008.
“Shared, Mobile, Improvised, Underground, Hidden, Floating” Documenta 12 Website 05.07.07
Ashdown, Georgia “Artistic Networking” Urbis Architecture Magazine, NZ Autumn 2006
Nelson, Robert “Sweet Smell of Community in Docklands", The Age, Melbourne, 22 MAR 2006
Miller, Clare; “Scotland is the Place: Ella Barclay” Scottish Executive website, 2006
Nurse, Amanda; “WARNING: Art is Not a Consumable – Ella Barclay”, COFA Magazine, Spring 2005
Higgins, Joanne “Pop Goes the Culture” (on 905) State of the Arts, 2005
Residencies
TAIPEI ARTIST VILLAGE Asia-Link Residency (current) 2011
RUNWAY Magazine, board member 2008 – 2011
GAFFA GALLERY, extra-projects coordinatior 2008 - current
FIRST DRAFT artist in residence 2009
FRASER STUDIOS artist in residence 2009
DOCUMENTA 12 MAGAZINES, for “The Living Newspaper”, Kassel, Germany July 2007
COMMAND+R, for “Akihabara Gorilla Workfare”, Tokyo, Japan 2007
AKIYOSHIDAI INTERNATIONAL ARTIST VILLAGE, Yamaguchi, Japan 2007
FUTURE ACADEMY STUDIO LAB, Facilitated by Dr. Clementine Delis, 2006-08
Awards
HELEN LEMPRIERE TRAVELLING ARTS SCHOLARSHIP (shortlisted, forthcoming), Artspace, Sydney 2011
SCEGGS REDLANDS ART PRIZE (shortlisted) Emerging category, nominated by Daniel Boyd 2009
GEORGES MORA FELLOWSHIP (shortlisted) 2009
JOHN LANSDOWN MEDIA ART AWARD for most outstanding final project, University of Edinburgh 2006
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE SCHOLARSHIP, the British Council 2005-06
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP (in partnership with British Council) 2005-06
UNSW EXCHANGE SCHOLARSHIP, University of Amsterdam 2002
Employment
College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Lecturer, Fine Arts 2011 - present
LOVEART, Executive Assistant to Amanda Love, November 2007 - Current
ROSLYN OXLEY9 GALLERY, Events Assistant 2004-05
SHAUN GLADWELL, Assistant 2004-05
GRANTPIRRIE, Gallery Assistant 2004-05
Collections
GRANTPIRRIE COLLECTION
LOVE COLLECTION
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
