Ellie Harrison is an artist based in Glasgow (UK) shortlisted for the Converse/Dazed 2011 Emerging Artists Award and featured in The List Hot 100. In 2012 she is artist-in-residence at Glasgow Women’s Library and co-host of the weekly radio programme the Ellie & Oliver Show which broadcasts LIVE from her flat in Glasgow every Friday lunchtime.
An overview of Ellie Harrison’s recent practice is given in the text by Laurie Penny commissioned to accompany her solo exhibition Market Forces and in the artist’s profile by Martin Herbert published in Art Monthly in 2011. A survey of her earlier work can be found in the 2009 book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector, which features her project Eat 22 - now on permanent display at the Wellcome Collection museum in London.
This website serves as an archive of her gallery based work created since 2000 and acts as an introduction to her numerous internet based projects which can currently be viewed online. It also provides information about the curatorial and collaborative projects she has initiated since 2005 and is currently working on. You can also find information about her current and previous residencies and exhibitions, as well as a thorough press archive dating back to 2002.
The animation above features a random sample of some of Ellie’s most recent and well-known projects. Please click on a project title for more information. For each page on the website that you visit you will also be provided with a randomly generated definition of Ellie Harrison following the asterisk below the main menu.
Ellie Harrison is coordinator of the Bring Back British Rail campaign, agent for The Artists’ Bond and a member of the Scottish Artists Union.
