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| About the Artist | |
Ellie Harrison is an artist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2001 she began to develop an area of practice based on documenting information about her daily routine. Most well known are her projects Eat 22 - for which photographed everything she ate for a year, and Gold Card Adventures - for which she calculated the total distance of a year's worth of travel on public transport (9236 kilometres). |
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Angel Row Jukebox
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| An interactive installation commissioned for the closing party of Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham. The Jukebox contained all the UK #1 hits which corresponded with the openings of 254 exhibitions held at the gallery over its lifetime. The audience were asked to punch in the code for the exhibition they first remembered visiting. |
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Self-Destruction (Building Site Ballot)
2007 |
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| A site-specific installation made for the launch of a gallery on the second floor of a working building site in Copenhagen. The audience’s attitude and nerve were tested by being asked to respond to the question of whether or not they think the ‘artwork’ (a small replica of the gallery), is any good. Their response helped decide whether it should be saved or destroyed. |
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Statistics Are Hot Air
2007 |
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| This colour-coded vinyl bar chart visualises the exact quantity of gaseous emissions Ellie produced daily throughout 2003. The piece was originally created in 2003 as a studio based wall chart exploring the notion of ‘artistic output’, for which Ellie added one bar to the chart each day. In 2007 the completed chart was installed as semi-permanent installation on glass at Birmingham Moor Street Station as part the New Art Birmingham exhibition Ariston. There is also an online version of the chart. |
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Sneezes 2003
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| Throughout 2003, Ellie recorded the exact date and time of her every sneeze. For this solo exhibition at the Wallner Gallery in Nottingham, she transformed the gallery walls into a giant two-way timeline. Mini colour-coded prints representing each of the 318 sneezes were positioned around the walls to indicate the exact date and time at which they occurred. |
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Daily Data Display Room
2006 |
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| For the duration of the Day-to-Day Data exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art in London, Ellie collected information about 10 elements of her everyday routine. Each morning the results from the previous day were emailed to the gallery and used to reconfigure and adjust the 10 different objects comprising the installation. Over the course of the exhibition, the display aimed to test and visualise an experiment as to whether there was a correlation between different elements of this information. |
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Daily Data Display Wall
2005 |
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| For the duration of the Day-to-Day Data exhibition in Nottingham and Portsmouth, Ellie collected data about 20 different elements of her daily life onto Daily Data Log sheets. Each morning the Log Sheet results were emailed to the gallery and used to reconfigure the 20 different items in the installation, so that it took on a slightly different appearance each day of the exhibition. |
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The Monthly Sculptures Determined by the Daily Quantification Records
2003 |
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| Throughout 2003, Ellie also collected data about 14 different elements of her everyday life onto Daily Quantification Records. Each month this data was converted into a set of averages, which then was applied to a set of scales and systems to output the specifications for a monthly sculpture. The first six months’ worth of sculptures was installed at the 2003 Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show. |
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Gold Card Adventures
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| For her solo exhibition at Piccadilly Circus Underground Station in 2005, Ellie created a series of 20 large format posters to visualise the data collected during her Gold Card Adventures project, for which she recorded the total distance of every journey she made on London Transport in a year (9,236 kilometres). These posters were used to mark the stages of this cumulative journey by featuring a series of imitation postcards from different global destinations at progressive further distances away from London. |
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Eat 22
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| For one year and one day Ellie photographed and recorded information about everything that she ate. The images were posted to the Eat 22 website weekly over the course of the year. The website was redesigned and relaunched in 2007 to coincide with the opening of the Wellcome Collection in London, where the animated film featuring all the images is now on permanent display. |
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Mass = Energy = Time
2002 |
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| This kinetic installation uses two found weight mechanism clocks. The lead weights which are normally used to power the clocks have been removed and replaced by foods (bread and bananas) of the same mass. The clocks continue to work as normal - powered by the gravitational potential energy inherent in the foods. Originally installed at Goldsmiths College in 2002 and then at the Colony gallery space in Birmingham in 2004. |
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TicTac Typing & Peanut Typing
2004 |
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| This installation features two Mac computer programmes made during the LabCulture digital arts residency in 2002. The programmes mimic the common typing test, but rather than telling you your speed or accuracy, they inform you of the equivalent number of TicTacs or peanuts you are burning off whilst typing. Bowls of TicTacs and peanuts are installed alongside the two Macs for hungry participants. |
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Potential Generator
2001 |
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| This kinetic sculpture was designed to give gravitational potential energy to apples. Apples are placed on the escalator device at the rear of the bike and, as a result of the bike being pedalled, are transported to a height above the ground proportional to their chemical energy content. A similar, but proportionally larger, Potential Generator for doughnuts was also designed. |
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Kinetic Cake vs Kinetic Carrot
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| In this kinetic installation a carrot and a chocolate éclair race around two facing train tracks at speeds proportional to their chemical energy contents - the éclair being just over three times faster than the vegetable of a comparable size. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Masters Degree in Fine Art (pending), Glasgow School of Art, June 2010 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, July 2003 BA (Hons) Fine Art (first), Nottingham Trent University, June 2001 BTEC Foundation Art & Design (distinction), West Thames College, June 1998 |
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| Website: www.ellieharrison.com | |
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