Ellen Harvey was born in 1967 in Kent, England. “Most of my recent work is premised on the idea that the genres of painting (especially the more ludicrously dated ones, such as the romantic self-portrait, the idyllic landscape, the history painting) can proved fascinating and often extremely funny insight into societal expectations of the “proper” functions of art. Consequently many projects consist of trying to disrupt particular genres, often through the use of other “nostalgic” technologies of representation such as the polaroid or identity car -- a task quite properly doomed to failure.” In this series Harvey paints polaroids of women who were asked to make a monster face.