MULL IT OVER - INTERVIEW

A few weeks ago photographer and curator Jonathan Cherry approached me to answer some questions for MULL IT OVER - a series of web based interviews with innovative contemporary photographers from around the world.  

You can read the interview, and have a look at some photos, here.

Uncertain States Newspaper

The Study of Peter Pan features in the latest issue of Uncertain States - a quarterly, artist led photography newspaper.

You can pick up a copy at the V&A, Rich Mix, Flowers East, Four Corners, Baltic Newcastle, Ikon Birmingham, Open Eye Liverpool, Impressions Gallery Bradford, or please get in touch if you would like me to send you a copy. 

Capricious No.15 — Boundaries

The latest issue of Capricious (featuring my work) has just been launched at the L.A Art Book Fair, and will hit European bookshelves over the next couple of weeks...

 

Capricious No.15 — Boundaries
This 120-plus page, full-colour issue ruminates on eleven photographer’s work, with a curation of text by Litia Perta.

Featuring /
 
Photographers

Kate Elliott / Claudio Nolasco / Bindi Vora / Colleen Maria Lenihan / Christine Haroutounian / Pauline Miko / Annegien Van Doorn / Kyler Zeleny / Charlotte Lybeer / João Grama / Virginie Rebetez
Writers

Dylan Mira / Litia Perta / Matt Longbucco

From the exploration of an undocumented family caught between counties, to the blurred lines of witchcraft in South African society, and onto the cliffs of a Portuguese seaside village, we feature work that walks the perimeters of its borders, illuminating the expanse and constraint. Capricious Boundaries is a state of mind, the deciding moment before crossing or retreating, the limbo that brings into focus the fragile lines between one world and another.

Here I Stand for Five Minutes

Here I Stand for Five Minutes is a KEEM project, made during the month-long residency at the Farringdon Factory.

KEEM set up a blog, and put up posters, asking occupants of the neighbouring building (5 Fleet Place) to stand in the window at a certain time in order to pose for a five-minute group portrait.

KEEM were interested in creating a dialogue between the Factory and the surrounding external world, and in exploring the act of performance involved in portraiture, and the relationship between the public and private. 

Click here for further information.

Season's Greetings

 

(In) The landscape darling © Kate Elliott

 

Wishing you all a happy 2014!

Open Factory - 18 December

The month-long occupation of the Farringdon Factory culminates in a one day event on 18 December from 
13:00 - midnight. For information on times of screenings and events click here.

 

                            The Factory © Kate Elliott 2013

To an outsider 20 Farringdon Street appears to be out-of-service. An unregulated and unlit building whose surfaces have lost their gleam; an out-of-date monument to the not-so-distant past. Situated in the City of London, the surrounding architecture is permanently illuminated as the bulk of multinational corporations forms the backdrop to the labours of a workforce that operates into the night. 20 Farringdon Street is a seven-story building that has been stripped back to its skeletal structure. It is a hermetically sealed space formed of a series of cavernous L-shaped rooms which each encompass an entire floor of the building. 

Between the 25 November and 18 December, this empty space operates as the Farringdon Factory; an open studio complex for live events, screenings and installations, performances and talks. 

The Factory Cinema is located on the ground floor and will host a programme of short films made by both resident and invited artist/filmmakers. This curated programme will seek to connect the studio practice upstairs with both visitors and the pedestrians on the street, locating the building itself as a unique site for observation and discussion.

The Factory builds upon research by artists Natasha Cox and Keira Greene, whose collaborative practice engages with the construction of the photographic image and the mechanisms of cinema.

Resident artists include:
Max Atkins, Cilla Berg, Verity Birt, Lucy Clarke, Alex Culshaw, Amy Dickson, Hazel Dowling, Kate Elliott, Stephen Emerson, Sara Hibbert, Elizabeth Homersham, Emily Iremonger, Rebecca James, Benji Jeffrey, Ann-Marie LeQuesne, Genevieve Lutkin, Girolamo Marri, Bella Marrin, Ella McCartney, Emma McGarry, Isobel Mei, Justine Melford-Colegate, Jenny Berger Myhre, Karolina Magnusson Murray, Mette Boel Olesen, Karolina Raczynski, Annette Robinson, Jack Strange, Will Ward, Bea Wilson.

Click here to visit the Farringdon Factory website, and here for the Farringdon Factory's Facebook page.

Farringdon Factory - The Seagull

This work is being made as part of the Farringdon Factory. Click here for further information.

Farringdon Factory - FF 25.11.13

Using 20 Farringdon Street as a site for observation I am currently working on a few mini-projects, some linked, some not. A couple of days ago I made a series of portraits FF 25.11.13. I am interested in exploring the gap between our inner selves and the outside world, and in creating a dialogue between the internal and external (both physically and emotionally), and the still and the moving-image.

This work is being made as part of the Farringdon Factory. Click here for further information.

                            FF 25.11.13 © Kate Elliott

Farringdon Factory

The Farringdon Factory is a month long residency, curated by artists Keira Greene and Natasha Cox, during which I, along with around 20 other artists, have full reign of a huge, disused office space on Farringdon Street. Here's a film snippet I took during the first visit to the space (with artist Emma McGarry).

20 Farringdon Street is a seven story building in the City of London. A structure that has been stripped back to its basic form, it is a soundproofed expansive space with enormous, lengthy rooms which look out over the energy of the passing city. The hum of the building's past activities echoes in this suspended space-in-waiting. 20 Farringdon Street has six L-shaped floors, identical in dimension and vacuity. Each is a blueprint of the last - like a strip of film waiting to be exposed.

From the 25th November to 19th December, this empty space will become the Farringdon Factory, a seven story open studio complex whereby the curators and resident artists will plan live events, screenings, and installations, performances and talks.

The ground floor will be transformed into a constructed cinema, a space that encourages discursive engagement. The facade is glass fronted, and passers­‐by will encounter screenings and events as they filter down through the many levels of the building, and will be invited to become part of the project in this communal and public space. Resident artists, along with invited speakers, will present events that examine methods of research and production linked to both film-making and the temporality of the site. This curated programme will run during the residency and will seek to connect the studio practice upstairs with both visitors and the pedestrians on the street, locating the building itself as a unique site for observation.      
    
  
  

One day in a forest in Autumn