Assistant Lecturer

Email: David.Ellison@TUDublin.ie

Growing up in Cheshire and Cumbria, David began his photogra­phy career as a photographic assistant to Brian Griffin and fashion photographer Craig McDean. Now an Artist and Lecturer in Design History at Technological University Dublin he holds a PhD from Ulster University and a BA Hons in Photogra­phy from Lancaster University.

His research into embroidered wrestling costumes of the North of England has featured as part of touring exhibitions at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and Somerset House, London in 2017 as well as The Civic, Barnsley in 2019. His pho­tographs have been published into two photo-books - Herdwick Common (2014) and Tek Hod: Embroidered Wrestlers of the North (2020).

David’s work is held at the Archive of Modern Conflict (London), the Library of Birmingham and Tullie House Collections (Carlisle). His work has been exhibited across the UK and Europe and has photographed for leading, quality newspa­pers and magazines in England and France.

Professional Practice

Exhibitions

NORTH: Fashioning Identity - The Civic, Barnsley (2019)

NORTH: Fashioning Identity – Somerset House, London (2017)

NORTH: Identity, Photography and Fashion – Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2017)

ROOM 203: Trade Union Portraits – Ulster Hall, Belfast (2013)

TEK HOD: The Faces and Fields of Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling – Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle (2012)

COLLECTIVE OBSERVATIONS: Folklore and Photography from Benjamin Stone to Flickr – Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2012)

Books

Herdwick Common (2014)

Tek Hod: Embroidered Wrestlers of the North (2020).