Ellen Jakeman-Barnes

photograms of plants, 2016

THE RED SUN (Letters) 2013-2014 Photographs from a Kodak Brownie 44B that I changed to take 35mm film with a ‘red sun’ light leak printed onto 80GSM inkjet paper, letter transfers were used for the sentences.. Words from my diary from July 2013-November 2014. I am currently looking at my life as a ‘ghost’

The pleasure is momentary, monoprint, 2012

My hands make things grow, visual diary, 2015

I am missing from my own existence, visual diary, 2015

Here’s how the first version of this started life

Ghost of the tyne, Run time: 3 mins 6 seconds, footage taken on the Shields Ferry between North and South Shields, music is 13 GHOSTS II by Nine Inch Nails 2016 (please set it to 1080p for full quality)

On Course And At Peace, run time: 2 minutes, 37 seconds, footage taken on the Shields Ferry between North and South Shields, music is Adrift and At Peace by Nine Inch Nails 2016 (please set it to 1080p for full quality)

Bethany getting ready, 12/12/15, visual diary.

Fragments of an unsent letter, ‘I thought I saw you today, 400 miles from where you live’ Sticker on a window in Newcastle, 2015

Working on some more hands, sketchbook work, 2016

That sinking feeling, (plus detail with penny for scale) Drawn with 0.1-0.5 fine liner pens, visual diary, 2015

phoebe bridgers / andrés cerpa / ellen jakeman / elvis depressedly / sleeping at last

I am missing from my own existence, visual diary, 2015

Taking meds, part 20, Collage with sewing into canvas, 2015

Taking meds, part 29 ‘With/out medicine’ collage, visual diary, 2015

Taking meds, part 34 ‘safety net’ collage, visual diary, 2015