Multidisciplinary Artist, Ele Bryan: Merging My Merkaba

Hope Primus | 30th January 2018

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Step into an immersive exhibition exploring the relationship between physical and mental health, through holistic healing and self discovery.

Ele Bryan is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, print, sculpture and word as remedial therapy to achieve greater well-being.

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In 2015 Bryan was formally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, and since then has used her works to express and explore her internal world when unable to verbally. Bryan trained as a printmaker and is now specialising in hand printmaking, which was the starting point for her exhibition “Merging My Merkaba”.

 

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In 2016, Bryan exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery for “Design for MSK: Invisible(Visible)” in conjunction with the NHS, where she showcased 7 fabric sculptures that mapped her pain over a 12-hour period.

Bryan developed her sculptures into a video, which documented the distress of “rest”, exploring the mask thrust upon her by herself and others living in such discomfort, unbeknown to onlookers and so often misinterpreted as laziness.

 

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Since then, Bryan has allowed her practice to naturally gravitate to the mediums of which best suit and has found great healing properties within her natural talents, abilities, and truest self. 

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“Merging My Merkabais a journey of Bryan’s darkness coming into light, a full 360 if you like. Reflecting back on previous works, Bryan displays the difference in perception, creating the difference in reality.

7th February 6.30pm-10th February 4.00pm 

The Horsfall 

87-91 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AG Manchester, United Kingdom

 

For more information on Merging my Merkaba, click here.