MARY PAULSON-ELLIS

ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a writer, currently working on my first novel about a girl who disappears and the people who feel they are responsible.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
I have been writing for around four years, dabbling in different mediums but focusing primarily on prose. I have worked as a fundraiser in the charitable and arts sector and currently work with the Green MSPs in the Scottish Parliament as an Administrator. I was born in Glasgow of English parents and lived in both Scotland and England as a child.

EXHIBITIONS

• THE COLLECTOR (short story), commended and published on ORANGE LABYRINTH website (2003)
  
• THE UNIVERSE IN REVERSE (play script), performed at The Arches Theatre, Glasgow by STILL POINT THEATRE (2002)
  
• THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (500 word synopsis and 1000 words of novel), long listed for A NOVEL APPROACH competition (2002)
  
• HE DIDN'T MEAN TO DO IT (short story), winner FRIENDS OF ARVON First Timer Competition, published in Friends newsletter (2002)