Ellie Brown

Writer, researcher, editor

Currently completing a PhD in art, architecture and design history on the shopping centre in Britain 1967–82. Published writing relating to this includes: Rise/Fall: Post-War Mall (C20 Magazine), MK Shopping Building (C20 Society online), Instagrammable Shopping Centre (Vestoj).

Writer, editor for Present Space magazine (2023–), features with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joel Meyerowitz, Dara Birnbaum, John Akomfrah. Previously, writer and editor for NR Magazine (2017–22), features including Mark Leckey, Sumayya Vally, Willem Dafoe. Writing elsewhere on art, design, photography, etc., including an exhibition catalogue essay on Boyd & Evans for MK Gallery, and interviews with Jamie Hawkesworth for British Journal of Photography and Simon Phipps for Pooleyville.

Visiting Research Fellow 2025, Henry Moore Institute