Ellen Nolan is an artist and academic living in London. Ellen’s practice explores hidden feminine histories, experience and representation. Her current work, The Nita Harvey Project, uses innovative archival practice and performance photography and film to consider cultural change, aligning 1930s Hollywood archival evidence, with now. Ellen is a senior lecturer in photography at Ravensbourne University, London, an AHRC PhD researcher at University of Westminster, and member of the CREAM research group.

Ellen has exhibited selected works in, The Photographers Gallery (London), Four Corners Gallery (London), The Arles Photography Festival (France), MoMu (Fashion Museum Antwerp), Florence Biennale (Fashion/Cinema) (Italy), GRIMMUSEUM (Berlin), The Houses of Parliament (#209 Women) (London), ICA (London), Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool) and The National Portrait Gallery (London), where five of her works are held in their collection.

Ellen has given academic papers on the Nita Harvey Archive Project at, The Courtauld Institute (London), The Institute of Art History (Zageb), Chelsea College of Art & Design and London College of Communication, and recently published her first peer reviewed article on The Nita Harvey Archive Project for Screenworks.

Ellen has a degree in Photography (Nottingham Trent University), and MFA (Goldsmiths, London), and PGCert in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication and HE Fellowship (UAL).