ELINA BRY is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.

EDUCATION  

2016-18  MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland                                         
2012-15  BA in Fine Art,  TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art et de design              - Le Mans, France



ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION    
                         
2022     ITEM, Introduction to Electronic Music - Lewis Cook 

2021     Experimental Creative Writing - Dr Tawnya Renelle  

 
                                                                                                                                                                     



SOLO EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES & COMMISSIONS

2025 Is the Earth Chronically Ill? Screening Premiere, Kulttuurikauppila, Ii, Finland

     Water Flows West, in collabortation with Annika Moses and Alina Tang, PANSY, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

2023 Radiophrenia, Live-to-Air Commission, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland

2022 Walking to Connect, Beacon, Greenock, Scotland

     Becoming Red, Cabbage, French Street, Glasgow, Scotland

    “Trái tim của anh trai tôi, My Brother’s Heart”, MoT+++, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam 

2021 GOHF Croundfunder, Performance Digital, Glasgow Open House Art Festival, Scotland

     FAKE NEWS: Please Fund Me, Digital Performance, EMBASSY Gallery - IG, Edinburgh, Scotland

2019 If E was V: A Night into a Parallel Universe, Arkadia OY, Helsinki, Finland

     Hells Belles, Barão de São João, Portugal

     Bless Your Heart, EMBASSY, Edinburgh, Scotland





EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES

2026 Oulu2026 Adapation exhibition, Oulu Art Museum

2024 Goolugatup Sounds, Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, Perth, Western Australia


     Rendezvous With Madness Screening, Toronto, Canada

     Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

     Through The Lens of Recovery, The Wyllieum x Waterfront Cinema, Greenock, Scotland

     Homemade, Shetland Arts, Shetland, Scotland

2023 Matinee, Old Hairdressers, New Performance works, Glasgow, Scotland

     Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland

     Baked Beans on The Door Step, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland

     Fusion Food, with Hélène Cayet, La Générale, Paris, France

2022 Heathcote Blue does Pig Melon, Pig Melon Gallery, Perth, Western Australia

     Difficult Listening, RTRFM radio, Perth, Western Australia

     Mobile Radio, Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, Scotland

     Visual Communication: The International Exhibition of Art Books, Zines, Three- 

     Dimensional Arts, and Moving Images Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand

     Annuale, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

     Surge Established Specialists Residency Presentation, Scotland

2021 Biscuit Tin Festival, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

     Ben & Jerry’s Green Cabaret, Saint Luke’s, Glasgow, Scotland

     BUZZCUT Superstream, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

     Take Me Somewhere, Think Time Radio Station, Digital Residency, Glasgow/INT

2020 Radiophrenia, International Radio Station, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland

     The Opera of the Body with Mark Vernon, Celine Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2019 SourSop, Performance Evening, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 

     EXHALE/Berlin Art Week Decompression,  ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin, Germany

     Bankito Fesztival, Feeling Myself - Lakeside Clinic, Nograd, Hungary 

     GLA/NYC Love Hangover, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

     Dare you do this ? FFFF it! Taiwan Gangshan Dist Contemporary Art                               

     Warehouse International Exchange Program, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

     Glide&Slide2, Performance Event, Keir Street, Glasgow, Scotland 

2018 House Guests, Hampton Court Guest House, Glasgow, Scotland

     Launch of Wet Courage, by E.C.C.O, Pipe Factory, Glasgow, Scotland

     Glide&Slide, Performance Event, Keir Street, Glasgow, Scotland

     Down Material Mouth, AMIF, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

     Morbus, Tontine Building, Glasgow, Scotland

     Cabbage, Junkspace: Tap for Sound -Audio and visual screening, Glasgow, Scotland

     International Bike Polo Championship: Hell's Belles Vol.8, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland

     Speculation on Marsh Lands, The Carnival Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

     SIMPLY BEAMING, Hope, Engaru, Hokkaido, Japan

     Screening for Maruseppu Art Residency , Maruseppu, Hokkaido, Japan

     MFA Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow, Scotland

     MFA at CitizenM, Glasgow, Scotland

     Esther Ferrer : "I’m Going To Tell You About My Life", Pearce Institue, GI Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

     Flat Cam, GY Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

     Skip Ad-Play, Savoy Center, GY Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

2017 Girls in Print: Female Figures in British Comics, Dundee, Scotland

     MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

     Lights Out, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland

2015 The BIG Big Show, Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts du Mans, France

     Premier Plan, Angers, France

     Les Photographiques, Le Mans, France

2014 La Quinzaine Radieuse #6, Piacé-Le-Radieux, France

     DMC & Friends at the Dourven,Gallerie du Dourven, France

     At Home,  Projet D’exposition en Appartement, Le Mans, France

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PUBLICATIONS

2024 Creative Recovery, in partnership with Creative Recovery Inverclyde

2019 POST-POST AVANT-POSTE, Published by David Michael Clark 

2018 Cabbitches, Published by JJ Tipton

     Morbus., Published by Christiana Myers

     If E was V, Graphic Novel, Les Editions Du Soleil D’Hiver

2017 Growing Up: That Girl Comic, Team Girl Comic, Women Comic Collective

2015 SCREENPLAY / SCÉNARIO, The Good Reader, Ma Bibliothèque​

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TALKS/WORKSHOPS

2024 Scottish Mental Health Art Festival, Scotland

2023 Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland

     Multilingual Comics Workshop, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland

2022 Culture Collective, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee, Scotland  

     Cooking Up A Zine, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland

     What is home, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland

     Invited Lecturer, Comic Book, Elective Glasgow School Of Art, Scotland

19-22 Creative Leader Tutor, Impact Arts, Central Belt, Scotland

2021  COP 26, Climate Hub, The New York Times, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland

2019 “Je n’ai pas de limite”, TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art et de design - Le Mans, France

2018 "JE, n'est pas le Sujet mais le Verbe", TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art et de design - Le Mans, France

2017 Panel Event : Women in Comics, Dundee, Scotland

     Home, Comic Event, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, Scotland



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RESIDENCIES  

2025 Hospitalfield with Creative Recovery Inverclyde, Scotland

     Centrum för Social Skulptur, Högmarsö, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden

     Oulu2026 Adaptation : Photo North, KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre, Street Level Photowork, Ii, Finland

2024 Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, Perth, Western Australia

     Leisure Project, Isle of Yell, Shetlands, Scotland

     Flow-Country Research Residency,Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland

2023 The Bothy Project, Self-Directed Residency, Isle of Eigg, Scotland 

     Residency at La Générale with Hélène Cayet, Paris, France

2022 Inverclyde Culture Collective Residency - Your Voice Recovery, Greenock, Scotland

     Resilience Residency, Cabbage, French Street, Glasgow, Scotland

     “Trái tim của anh trai tôi, My Brother’s Heart”, MoT+++, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam 

     Surge Established Specialists Residency, Scotland 

2021 Jeremie Space, Digital Residency, France/UK 

     Thick Time Radio Station, Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow, UK/International

2020 Plastic Follies - Digital Residency, Scotland

2019 Preselected, Cove Park - Artist Moving Image Residency, Scotland

2014 Osthang Project, Living Together, Collectif Etc, Darmstadt, Germany





AWARDS, GRANTS & BURSARIES

2024 Community Award at Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Scotland

     Shortlisted for SURF Award - Creative Recovery Inverclyde

2023 Bursary to attend SPRINGBOARD Assembly for Creative Climate Action, Scotland

     Open Fund for Individuals, Creative Scotland

     Inverclyde Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund, Scotland

2022 ITEM, Introduction to Electronic Music, Bursary, Scotland

     Resilience Programme, Cabbage, Scotland

     Travel Bursary, Buzzcut, Glasgow, Scotland

     Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers, Creative Scotland 

2021 Selected for Volunteer of the Year Award, Sustrans, Scotland 





ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS

2025 OULU2026 Adaptation Project - PhotoNorth

2024 Through the Lens of Recovery, Telegraph, Scotland

2023 Alchemy Film Festival Report, The Skinny, Scotland

     Culture Collective, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Scotland

2022 Difficult Listening, RTRFM radio, Perth, Western Australia

     Becoming Red, Cabbage, Scotland

2021 End of Residency Interview, Jeremie Space, between France & Scotland

     Compulsive Workout, Glasgow Open House Festival, Scotland

2018 Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show, The List, Glasgow, Scotland


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Creative Degrowth Scotland
ELINA BRY is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.