I will take part in the two-week Scholarship in Sound & Image: Workshop on Videographic Criticism: https://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/what-is-videographic-criticism/

I am excited to be working with original film footage and ephemera directly from the Nita Harvey Archive, and specifically the (digitised) Pre-Code Hollywood film Nita featured in, Search for Beauty (1934 (below). In the workshop, I will be engaging with contemporary film theory and current critical debates along with training in film editing, essential to the methodological integrity of the Nita Harvey Archive Project and in producing a new artist film.

In 1933, Nita won the English title in the Paramount Search for Beauty competition and a contract with Paramount, who shipped her from London to Hollywood to appear in the film and make her a ‘Paramount property’. You can see Nita in the original film poster below (4th from left).

I have moved into my new artist studio at Thames-side studios:

https://thames-sidestudios.co.uk/studios/directory

I have written my first (peer-reviewed) published research statement, along with a short film about The Nita Harvey Project :

https://www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-15-2/the-nita-harvey-archive

Along with three other international artists, working with mentor Aikaterini Geisian, as an ARCHIVO LAB | Visual Artist 2025, with The Nita Harvey Archive Project:

https://www.archivoplatform.com/post/lab25-nolan

January 2025, group exhibition and research talk with selected AHRC/ Techne artists.

This was the first showing of The Nita Harvey Archive archival photographs (which I hand-printed on a DeVere 504), exhibited together with my 2022 performance photographs and 16mm film stills, wearing Nita Harvey’s remade Hollywood costumes, revisiting her archival journey and the 1930s Hollywood casting couch story she told me as a child. Exhibiting archival analogue colour C-type handprints, DeVere 504 glass plate prints, collage, 3-D archival prints and my C-type practice photographs, which respond directly to the Nita Harvey Archive.

Curated and organised by Julia Schuerman and Alison Green. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEpw2GZI0Vj/

Techne/ AHRC funding award:

The Nita Harvey Project is selected for Techne/ AHRC artist & research funding from September 2024 till 2029 (on completion of my PhD):

https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-students/techne-students-list/2024/ellen-nolan

https://fastforward.photography/gallery/the-nita-harvey-archive/

The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Strand, London, WC2.
12.30-1.30 9th November
Nita Harvey’s Archive: the role of clothes in the life and career of an English actress (c.1930)
A talk by artist & lecturer Ellen Nolan

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I’m giving a lecture on Friday 23rd February 2018, from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. It’s open to the public & free. (You don’t need a ticket, turn up ten minutes early). The title of my paper is:

Nita Harvey’s Archive: the role of clothes in the life and career of an English actress (c.1930)

I will be showing unpublished images from Nita Harvey’s archive, see two examples below (Nita, top right & bottom left).

Q & A afterwards, then..pub! All my guests will be brought a half pint. (Hope there’s not too many of you.)