Elina Bry

🌱 Something pretty magical happened during my time in Yell, Shetlands. I was able to cast peat on my new friends Croft. They trusted me enough to cast the peat myself with their small tushkar, because they felt like it was important that I could have a go and anyone should be able to be part of the history of the land. Peat casting has a bad reputation around climate change advocates and as a climate activist I’ve had my issues with it until I’ve met people who’ve used peat all their lives to heat their homes and survive the winter. Power cuts happen frequently on the islands and while I was there we were out of power for a good 12 hours, which isn’t particularly bad during this time of the year. Shetlands is full of wind farms producing electricity for the south, leaving Shetlands out of the power they help to produce. The mainland is colonising their power and shaming their ancestral ways of producing energy. The people who cast peat have a better understanding of the land than anyone else I’ve met, they see the years on the ground and imagine what age they would be when they start casting the peat 3 metres from where they are at. Something happens when you shift the land, the ground opens up and reveals something. There are no words to the experience of listening to what the land has to say. It’s something other, something impossible to translate as it’s something that touches you deeper than sound can ever do. I feel extremely grateful for the people who I’ve crossed paths, for everything I’ve learned and shared. Feeling part of a community which isn’t yours is probably one of the most rewarding thing I have experienced. I’m grateful for my new, old and future community and people who help others gather together. While experiencing this new journey, my heart goes to Palestine, we cannot stop talking and thinking about all the people robbed from their lives, robbed from their land, and robbed from their futures. I am saddened that the cease fire hasn’t been granted. My heart goes to everyone who is currently in an oppressed country. #shetlands #peat #castingpeat #peatbogs #tushkar #environmental

❄️ 🧊Above the Arctic Circle sweat turns into ice and dreams come true. In between -20C and -30C the body focuses on producing heat ~ to much of it makes you sweat and turns into ice. You walk, you take a break and listen to what your body has to say. Walking in the cold is my heritage and my body is built for this. Feeling my eyelids getting stuck because of the ice on my lashes is a reminder to take a break, stop, smell for a farway fire and find shelter. Sometimes the sky brings you something to remind you that we are not alone. My slow-travel wasn’t easy this time, my body took a toll and it took me sometime to recover, chronically ill bodies as healthy as they look sometimes need more time to readjust. Reconnecting with what I witnessed makes me understand the purpose of the slow journey, weeks later, my heart is still above the Arctic. My heart goes to all the oppressed communities, minorities, people on this planet, fighting for their freedom. Finland gained their independence in 1917 and to this day 06.12 is the most important day of the year. I want this for all the countries fighting to gain their independence so they can celebrate who they are, where they come from in a country with freedom of movement, speech and free to live. Cease Fire Now #arctic #lapland #northenlights #revontuli #winter #slowtravel #ecology #fujifilm #freeze #cold #portrait #natural

⚔️ thank you @hospitalfield for fulfilling all our baroque dreams ~ it’s been two weeks since I got woken-up around 2am by what I thought to be a ghost, at Hospitalfield. The ghost was in fact only Martita, locked out of her room in the middle of the night, perhaps she had been visited by Clytie (picture 3) staring at her all day to try to embody her emotions made her re-enact the distress Clytie symbolises. Hospitalfield team made us feel right at home, (picture 2) can be the witness. Last week I got asked if I had children, and to my surprise I couldn’t remember if I did, probably an after-effect of caring responsibilities that bled into days and nights. Two weeks ago I got visited by a ghost, perhaps I really was, not Martita, but our dear team members that have passed this year ~ talking about recovery, grief, mental health and anxiety all week made us remember those who have been and floats around us. Dreams do come true ~ (picture 4) is a proof - @creativerecoveryinverclyde on their first official residency. Extended thank you to Martita, @jenwardwardwardward , @rahellevine , Robin, Dana, Andrew, Billy, Avi and Siobhan. This residency was made possible by @creativescots Open Fund @gulabiphoto developing my most baroque artist photo. #hasselblad500cm

📻 @radiophreniaglasgow x @radio.worm ~ we’ve had a dreamy time working in @soundstudio.worm over the past week making our new Radio Play : Thalassonic Dynamo for @radio.worm 25H Relay Massive thank you to @ask_kilmartin and Lukas for accommodating all our dreams and the public on Saturday night for witnessing our first in-house collaboration ~ also big shout out to @gulabiphoto for developing these in 1hour30min after I dropped my films, what a power house!!

📣 Hei Helsinki! Save the Date : Is the Earth Chronically Ill? – film screening Saturday 31st of January, 17:00-19:00 SOLU Space, Helsinki Join us for the screening of : Is the Earth Chronically Ill? ~ Elina Bry’s first feature-length film. This very personal debut looks at the connections between the climate crisis and nature in three places that matter deeply to Bry: Scotland, Finland and France. In this ongoing project, Bry draws parallels between the Earth’s “chronic illness” ~ climate change ~ and their own experience of living with chronic illness. The film captures quiet, reflective moments in these landscapes, thinking about resilience, change and fragility. This film was made solely through slow-travel across Europe to connect Scotland, Finland and France. 53min long film followed by a Q&A Free event

👵🏼 Retirement workout has changed into retirement pampering ~ she only realised it was me when I hugged her and she said “oh it’s you, you really are granny’s child”. As she’s getting closer to her 98th birthday we added new things to our routine. When we get together it feels like two old friends, the roles are reversed and I get to care for her the way she has cared for me. She wants to hit 100, like some sort of revenge to the world, revenge of her sad and poor childhood ~ she wants to show them that she’s strong. I am in full admiration of her will to live and I’m grateful to have her in my life. - I wanted to add that she is aware she is being filmed and likes to create these wee scenes with me. - I feel extremely privileged to be able to see people I love age peacefully, and my heart is forever with families who have been robbed by the possibility to see their elders age, to share time with their loved ones and kids unable to dream. #retirement #workout #gran

🏰 What a privilege to be making our way to @hospitalfield tomorrow with @creativerecoveryinverclyde for the making of our next film. When I started my three month residency with Your Voice Recovery as part of @culturecolsco in 2022, I was nowhere to believe that three years in, two films later, two @creativescots funds, one award and multiple screenings we would be stepping foot in Hospitalfield for a residency. Last year I made up a DIY residency for the group in Loch Rannock after a group member asked if they could apply for an artist residency, I had just come back from @bothyproject and I didn’t have the courage to talk about the competetiveness of residencies. That’s why I believed that we could just make our own, rent a remote place, make our own food, work and spend time together. The snowball effect of our DIY residency on the participants was mind blowing and made us want more and dream big. It was time to apply for funding for 1,5 years and factor a residency in a “real” arts organisation. Hospitalfield was on board and has kindly offered to cover some in-kind cost to make sure 8 of us will be able to attend the residency and give us access to our wildest dreams. We are all buzzing and can’t wait to get working in “the Picture Room” ~ thank you Hospitalfield for the trust, thank you @creativescots for believing in us, thank you Kat Boyle ( @feralartprojects ) for being on our side and working hard on making our dreams possible, thank you Martita for dreaming with me, and thanks to my collaborators at creative recovery inverclyde, each person is a star in the making ~ it’s about giving time and space to grow. Super proud of what we’ve done! I also want to acknowledge everyone we’ve lost along the way, they are part of the shadows of everything we make. ~ if you struggle with addiction please reach out so I can help, listen and give you access to the services I know x @gulabiphoto developed these wee gems

We are very excited to be including the wonderful @elle.bry as our first featured short filmmaker in November! 📽️ Elina Is a French-Finnish multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, working across film, performance, and socially engaged practice. Their work explores ecology, memory, and the body, and they are also deeply involved in participatory arts within recovery, creating collaborative projects that empower communities through creativity. We will be screening Elina's Film Walking to Connect (2022), the winner of the Community Award at last year's @mhfestival film awards, alongside Talk About Lonely next Friday! 🏆 📅 Friday 7th November 📍 The Wynd Centre, 6 School Wynd, Paisley, PA1 2DB, 🕑 7pm (doors 6.30pm) 🎟️ £8,£6,£0 @creativerecoveryinverclyde #refractivefilmprogramme #paisleydocs #filmscreening #independentfilm #featurefilm #shortfilm🎞📽⚡️ #screenscotland #paisley #renfrewshire #creativerenfrewshire #lonlieness #creativerecovery #inverclyde

murmuration #7 - translate artist announcement; Elina Bry @elle.bry is a French-Finnish multidisciplinary artist based in Scotland. Their practice spans film, performance and sound exploring how the body and environment are entangled through memory, language, and listening. Sound and voice are central to their work. EB creates sound for films and performances as well as standalone pieces, often collaborating with choirs, artists and nature. They approach the voice not through pitch or melody, but as material: a site of breath, resonance, and embodied presence. In their practice, the voice becomes a medium and a form—shaped by inhaling, exhaling, speaking, or singing—and is deeply connected to their experience of working across different languages. Through attentive listening, collective vocal explorations, and recordings that emerge from walking and dialogue, EB traces the fragile and porous relations between people, places, and ecologies. Their practice opens spaces where sound and voice carry memory, create intimacy, and become tools for connection. They have performed sound works for Radiophrenia (Glasgow), Goolugatup Sounds (Western Australia), worked with Rhubaba Choir (Edinburgh) and are currently developing a project for a group exhibition in Oulu Museum, part of the European Capital of Culture 2026 programme.  / workshop / field trip; 31st May - 7th June 2026 Glenshee, Scotland drawing on transformative listening and diffusion practices, asking how we can use located sound / listening to inform creative work & explore the role of perception. Alongside listening sessions & field recording in the locale, we'll explore different approaches to placing sounds within other spaces, re-listening, composing & editing located sound, & translating vibrational materials into new formats inc. graphic / text based scores. We will also explore via extended techniques using contact micrs, ecoutic mics, hydrophones etc. /murmuration-2026.php #listening #fieldrecording #soundart #soundscape #ecoacoustics #sounddesign #jrfmicrophones #contactmic #hydrophone #graphicscores #textscores #artworkshop

Artist-in-residence 6/2025: Elina Bry Scotland based French-Finnish artist Elina Bry charmed Ii with her warm and open approach. During her residency period, she worked with her socially engaged project, that explores the relationship between humans and nature in our time of climate anxiety and climate change. In Ii Elina worked with school children from the Valtari school, the clients of the Pohde rehabilitative work activities, and other people of all ages from Ii. She organised a choir that performed in the opening of KulttuuriKauppilas summer exhibition, went swimming in Iijoki – preceded by sauna of course – and roamed the forests and fields in the area with local inhabitants. Elina Brys residency was organised in co-operation with Photo North, Streetlevel Photoworks (Scotland) and the Oulu2026 -project. /// Ranskalais-skotlantilais-suomalainen mediataiteilija Elina Bry hurmasi Iin. Residenssijaksonsa aikana hän toteutti osallistavia ja yhteisöllisiä työpajoja, joissa laulettiin, uitiin ja kuljettiin luonnossa. Elinan sosiaalisen taiteen projektiin osallistuivat Pohteen kuntouttavan työtoiminnan asiakkaat, Valtarin koulun oppilaat ja muut iiläiset. Elina Bryn residenssijakso toteutui yhteistyössä Pohjoisen elokuvakeskuksen, Street Level Photoworksin ja Oulu2026 -hankkeen kanssa. #residenssi #kulttuurikauppila #artii #artist-in-residence #Oulu2026 @photonorth.fi @oulu2026official @elle.bry Kuvat/photos: Jaani Föhr, Maiju Pohjanheimo.

CRISPS IN THE MUSEUM Episode 2: Glasgow School of Art Full episode linked in bio! Big thanks to GSA's archives team for putting up with us. If you're in Glasgow, go and visit them at The Whisky Bond building. You can see AMAZING pieces from GSA's collection for free! #gsaarchives #elinabry #durtybeanz #glasgowschoolorart #gsa

Come to @mote102leith for the screening of Is the Earth Chronically Ill? The first feature film by French-Finnish artist Elina Bry, filmed across Scotland, Finland and France. This work traces a journey through the eyes of a chronically ill body, intertwining geological time, memory and queer ecology. Developed in collaboration with the Rhubaba Choir, the film reflects Bry’s ongoing research into the entanglement between the environment and the human body in the context of climate change and ecological distress.