Exhibitions %26 Events
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7th - 28th August 2010
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 - 18:00
OPENING: Friday 6th August, 19:00 - 23:00
Artnews Projects, Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Germany
Ellie will be showing her installations The History of Financial Crises and Transactions at the old Künstlerhaus Bethanien space in Berlin as part of the Glasgow School of Art MFA International Exhibition curated by John Calcutt and Graham Ramsay in collaboration with Artnews Projects. The exhibition features works by Oliver Braid, Fiona Burke, Celeste Carballo, Kirstin Carlin, Kaifeng Chun, Emily Donnini, Caroline Douglas, Solveig Einarsdottir, Hannah Ellul, Kitty Finer, Emma Fitts, Sarah Forrest, Ellie Harrison, Tom Harrup, Ga Young Jang, Amy Marletta, Gaby Peters, Charlotte Prodger, Rosemary Scanlon, Peter Schoeffer, Olga Schulz, Darren Tesar, Deniz Üster, Tobias Wootton and Jamie Wright.
Artists’ Lottery Syndicate Launch Party
2nd July 2010
This event held at the Arts Admin Bar & Café, London marked the official launch of Ellie’s new collaborative project the Artists’ Lottery Syndicate - a group of 40 UK based artists joining forces to play The National Lottery over the course of a year. Programmed to coincide with the results of the Syndicate’s first EuroMillions draw (which saw them scoop a massive £9) the event offered the opportunity to meet the Syndicate members, to hear more about the ideas behind the project from Ellie Harrison and to begin to discuss the wider issues it raises about the future of arts funding with Arts Admin director Judith Knight.
MFA Degree Show 2010
12th - 26th June 2010
To mark the end of her two years of study on the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art, Ellie showed new work at the CCA Glasgow and the Glue Factory as part of the MFA Degree Show 2010. The exhibition also features work by Oliver Braid, Fiona Burke, Celeste Carballo, Kirstin Carlin, Kaifeng Chun, Emily Donnini, Caroline Douglas, Solveig Einarsdottir, Hannah Ellul, Kitty Finer, Emma Fitts, Sarah Forrest, Tom Harrup, Ga Young Jang, Amy Marletta, Gaby Peters, Charlotte Prodger, Rosemary Scanlon, Peter Schoeffer, Olga Schulz, Darren Tesar, Deniz Üster, Tobias Wootton and Jamie Wright. The Closing Party will feature ‘Fireworks Display’ - a new performance in which Ellie attempts to re-enact the history of revolution via the medium of pyrotechnics.
General Election Drinking Game
6th May 2010
To coincide with the 2010 UK general election, Ellie Harrison coordinated and took part in this one-off endurance performance at the Star and Shadow in Newcastle. General Election Drinking Game featured four ‘players’ representing the main political parties. Each attempted to drink one shot of lager for every seat in parliament their party won, live as the results came in. Live coverage of the performance was webcast throughout the night.
Art at GFT
15th April - 27th June 2010
Ellie’s Vending Machine made its fourth UK appearance at the GFT in her home town of Glasgow as part of their new programme of artworks in-and-around the cinema building. Its exhibition run, which overlapped with the UK general election and the new government’s emergency budget and funding cuts, saw the machine working hard and gifting free crisps to many a passer-by.
Abandon Normal Devices
15th March - 10th April 2010
Ellie’s Vending Machine installation made its third appearance at a UK venue as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival of new cinema and digital culture at The Dukes in Lancaster. The project was featured on the BBC North West News and on The Bubble on BBC 2.
Hedonism vs. Asceticism:
A control freak’s guide to the MFA
16th March 2010
As part of the MFA screening programme at the CCA Glasgow, Ellie gave an illustrated lecture detailing her experience of studying on the Master of Fine Art (MFA) course at Glasgow School of Art - offering an insight into how she set about organising her time and the contents of her mind, and exploring her tempestuous relationships with work and play.
The Peckham Experiment
9th October - 15th November 2009
Ellie’s Vending Machine was shown at Space Station Sixty-Five as part of this group exhibition curated by Jo David and Rachael House in response to the innovative 1930s social health project The Peckham Experiment. The exhibition featured work by Jonathan Bishop, Gayle Chong Kwan, Jay Cloth, Nicholas Cobb, Freee, Ellie Harrison, Dean Kenning, Freddie Robins, Mark Wayman and Annie Whiles and took place at venues across south east London.
L’Atelier est Mort, Vive l’Atelier!
6th - 8th November 2009
Ellie was commissioned alongside Nina Beier, David Blandy, Ruth Buchanan, Kelly Mark, Nicholas Matranga and Richard Peel to make a special poster for the Springhill Institute poster-book L’Atelier est Mort, Vive l’Atelier! The publication aimed to explore how contemporary artists make use of their studios in a ‘post-studio’ age and was available free throughout The Event in Birmingham.
Seeing Things: Data Visualisation
4th November 2009
As part of Ffotogallery’s Vision On season examining the creative impact of new digital technologies, Ellie gave a talk about her practice and the art of ‘data visualisation’. The lecture was programmed to coincide with the Aaron Koblin exhibition and took place at Turner House, Penarth in collaboration with the University of Wales, Newport.
Book Launch & Therapy Session
8th October 2009
For the official London launch of Ellie’s new book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector at Space, Sally O’Reilly and Ellie Harrison gave an introduction to the groundbreaking new therapy which helped Ellie recover from her past obsessions and become a better artist.
Desk Chair Parade
2nd August 2009
Ellie Harrison and Adele Prince collaborated as Sports Day to put on this one-off event in Manchester as part of Castlefield Gallery’s 25th Anniversary celebrations. The Desk Chair Parade was a large group of willing volunteers - office workers, shoppers and gallery goers alike - freewheeling through the streets on ordinary office chairs.
Transfers and Actions
16th April - 7th June 2009
Ellie showed two brand new installations The History of Financial Crises and Transactions in this two-person show at Mejan Labs in Stockholm, Sweden. Transfers and Actions brought together the work of Casey Reas and Ellie Harrison, both artists who explore the transformation and translation of information.
Ellie Harrison
23rd April - 30th May 2009
Ellie’s solo exhibition at the Viewpoint Gallery at Plymouth College of Art marked the end of her period as artist in residence at the college. It featured the brand new installation Vending Machine. The exhibition opening also doubled as the launch of Ellie’s new book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector, which was published by Plymouth College of Art Press and features a specially commissioned text by Sally O’Reilly.
Interim MFA
16th May - 23rd May 2009
This group exhibition at the Mackintosh and Newbery Galleries marked the end of Ellie’s first year of study on the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art. Ellie showed her new installation Toytown. The exhibition also featured work by Oliver Braid, Fiona Burke, Celeste Carballo, Kaifeng Chun, Emily Donnini, Caroline Douglas, Solveig Einarsdottir, Hannah Ellul, Kitty Finer, Sarah Forrest, Tom Harrup, Ga Young Jang, Amy Marletta, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Charlotte Prodger, Rosemary Scanlon, Peter Schoeffer, Olga Schulz, Darren Tesar, Deniz Üster, Alberta Whittle, Tobias Wootton and Jamie Wright. In collaboration with Aye-Aye Books, the exhibition opening also featured the Glasgow launch of Ellie’s new book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector.
It’s a Mess and Most Probably Irreversible
24th February - 1st March 2009
The wall chart which resulted from Ellie’s year-long research project Know Your Thinkers & Theorists was shown in London as part of the exhibition It’s a Mess and Most Probably Irreversible curated by Five Storey Projects. The exhibition brought together a group of artists who escape classification by digesting, recycling and representing existing information from our over-saturated society. It included work by Vasco Alvo, Cecile Azoulay, Sidsel Christensen, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Ellie Harrison, David Micheaud, Faith Millin, David Raymond Conroy, Joanna Steele and Jack Strange.
Braziers Open Day
17th August 2008
Ellie took part in the 2008 Braziers International Artists’ Workshop at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. The workshop was open to the public for one day on Sunday 17th August and featured installations, interventions and performances by Edwina Ashton, Jonathan Baldock, Katy Beinart, Hangfeng Chen, Sunoj Damodaran, Julia Defferary, Steven Eastwood, Ghalib El-Khaldi, Evgenia Golant, Ellie Harrison, Isabelle Krieg, Olawole Lagunju, Barak Reiser, Chris Schiavo, Mia Taylor and Pauline Thomas.
A Process of Living
11th July - 30th August 2008
A Process of Living was a group exhibition at The City Gallery in Leicester, which aimed to explore the relationship between the visual arts and education. It featured Ellie’s Names animation, made in response the Operation Treasure Hunt residency she undertook at Imperial Avenue Infant School in Leicester in October 2007. The exhibition also featured work by John Aiken, Ed Allington, Glenn Boulter, Copenhagen Free University, John Hilliard, John Latham, Measure by Measure, Michael Craig Martin, Bruce McLean, United Nations Plaza, Annika Ström, tenantspin and Gary Woodley.
Closing Party
22nd September 2007
Ellie was commissioned to make a special interactive work for the closing party of Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham. The gallery closed on 22nd September 2007, after 16 years as Nottingham’s leading contemporary art space, to make way for Nottingham Contemporary opening in 2009. Ellie’s piece, Angel Row Jukebox, aimed to celebrate the 254 exhibitions which took place at the gallery during its life. The closing party featured new commissions by Ellie Harrison and Alexander Stevenson.
Hen Weekend Talk
5th September 2007
Ellie led a presentation and discussion at Modern Art Oxford about her networking initiative Hen Weekend - a series of professional development seminars for female artists, writers and curators. The event was held as part of the ARC programme in partnership with OVADA.
FILE Festival 2007
13th August - 9th September 2007
Ellie was again selected to be part of the annual FILE Festival, this time for her web-based project Tea Blog. FILE is the International Festival of Electronic Language held at Galeria de Arte do Sesi in São Paulo, Brazil.
Medicine Now
21st June 2007 - ongoing
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 18:00, Thursday 10:00 - 22:00
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
Ellie’s project Eat 22 is now on permanent display in London at the new Wellcome Collection museum, as part of the exhibition Medicine Now. To celebrate this, the Eat 22 website was redesigned and relaunched. It now features larger versions of each of the images, a web version of the animated film and a complete archive of press cuttings. Medicine Now features the Eat 22 animated film plus a specially produced book. It also features work by Heather Barnett, Robin Blackledge, Annie Cattrell, Julie Cockburn, Katherine Dowson, Christopher Frayling, Susie Freeman & Liz Lee, Ellie Harrison, Michael Hopkins, John Isaacs, Rob Kesseler, Alastair Mackie, Mauro Perucchetti and Julian Walker.
I’ve Been Watching You
14th June - 31st July 2007 and touring
Ellie was commissioned to make a new screen-based work to mark the launch of Digital Broadway - the new digital arts programme at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. The launch programme also included work by Marcus Coates, Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie and Annie Watson. Ellie’s piece I’ve Been Watching You took the form of an animated notebook chronicling the three-and-a-half years she spent working as Undercover Artist in Residence at the cinema. The 38 minute animation was screened continuously in the Cafébar throughout July 2007. It then toured to Showroom Cinema in Sheffield in August and to Filmhuis Den Haag where it formed part of Todaysart Festival from 20th - 22nd September 2007.
Ariston
15th - 18th March 2007
Ellie showed a new version of her installation Statistics Are Hot Air as part of the group exhibition Ariston, curated by Candice Jacobs. The exhibition took place at the Warren Bar (a temporary venue within Birmingham Moor Street Station) as part of New Art Birmingham 2007. This new vinyl on glass version of Statistics Are Hot Air is now a semi-permanent feature at Moor Street Station. The Ariston exhibition featured work by Ayling & Conroy, Dave Bond, Tomas Chaffe, Faye Claridge, Greg Cox, Ellie Harrison, Tristan Hessing, Ian Nesbitt and Elizabeth Rowe.
Oeen Group Show
11th January - 8th February 2007
Ellie showed a specially made site-specific installation Self-Destruction (Building Site Ballot) as part of the Oeen Group Show in Copenhagen, Denmark. The exhibition, which took place inside a container on the second floor of a building site, featured small-scale works by 14 international artists including Matthieu Clainchard, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Tue Greenfort, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Ellie Harrison, Oliver Heinzenberger, Juha van Ingen, Jakob Jensen, Sean Lynch, Henrik Menné, Kaj Nyborg, Simon Starling and Michael Sailstorfer.
Live Lecture
23rd February 2007
Ellie gave an in depth, illustrated lecture about her practice at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham as part of the Live Programme organised by Nottingham Trent University in collaboration with Broadway. The lecture took place in Broadway’s screen one.
Day-to-Day Data Symposium
18th March 2006
Ellie chaired the Day-to-Day Data Symposium, which was held at the ICA in London. She also gave a presentation about her work in relation to the subject ‘data logging’. Alongside presentations by four other artists Richard Dedomenici, Tony Kemplen, Adele Prince and Abigail Reynolds, the symposium aimed to give an insight into the concepts and working methodologies of the artists involved in the Day-to-Day Data project.
Day-to-Day Data
20th July - 7th September 2005 and touring
Day-to-Day Data was Ellie’s first major curatorial project in which she also showed two specially commissioned installations the Daily Data Display Wall and the Daily Data Display Room. The project launched at Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham and toured to Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth from 17th September - 29th October 2005 and to Danielle Arnaud contemporary art in London from 11th March - 23rd April 2006. It featured newly commissioned work by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, Cleo Broda, Hannah Brown, Kevin Carter, James Coupe, Hedley Roberts & Rob Saunders, Sam Curtis, Hywel Davies, Richard Dedomenici, Jem Finer, Helen Frosi, Ellie Harrison, Tony Kemplen, Lucy Kimbell, Christian Nold, Adele Prince, Abigail Reynolds, Gabrielle Sharp, Therese Stowell, Tim Taylor and Mary Yacoob.
FILE Festival 2005
21st June 2007 - ongoing
Ellie’s web-based project Swear Box 2005 was selected to be part of the 2005 FILE Festival. FILE is the International Festival of Electronic Language held at Galeria de Arte do Sesi in São Paulo, Brazil.
Gold Card Adventures
17th January - 21st March 2005
Ellie showed specially commissioned work documenting her Gold Card Adventures project, for her first solo show in London. The 20 large format posters which made up the exhibition were installed at Piccadilly Circus Underground Station in the ticket hall and exit subway two. It was presented by public art programme for London Underground - Platform For Art (now Art on the Underground).
A New Centre for Architecture
13th - 23rd January 2005
Ellie worked in collaboration with architects AOC on their plans for the new Architecture Foundation building in London. Ellie developed a proposal which would allow passers-by to interact with the building during its development using their mobile phones and digital cameras. AOC’s designs were showcased alongside the seven other short listed architects, a-Graft, AOC (with Ellie Harrison), Caruso St John, Foreign Office, Zaha Hadid, Lacaton & Vassal, MVRDV and Bernard Tschumi, in an exhibition at the Ragged School in London. The competition was won by Zaha Hadid, with second place going to a-Graft and 3rd place to AOC (with Ellie Harrison).
The End is the Beginning is the End
6th November - 28th November 2004
Ellie showed her installation Mass = Energy = Time, as part of a group show The End is the Beginning is the End curated by Casey & McAree at their new Colony gallery space in Birmingham. The exhibition featured works by Casey & McAree, Meiying Collins, Ellie Harrison and Dave Roland.
Sneezes 2003
30th September - 7th November 2004
For her first solo exhibition in Nottingham Ellie presented the installation Sneezes 2003 at the Wallner Gallery in Lakeside Arts Centre. The exhibition was commissioned as part of the You Are Here Festival 2004.
For the Time Being
4th - 19th September 2004
Ellie was commissioned by the Transition art programme at Victoria Baths in Manchester to produce the web-based work Bath Time. The work was launched as part of the exhibition For the Time Being: A Promise of Progress which also featured new work by Tod Hanson, Lizzie Hughes, Joanna Karolini, Claudia Pilsl and Humberto Vélez.
Relay
7th August - 25th September 2004
Ellie’s internet based work The Challenge Series was shown in the exhibition Relay: Homage to the Olympic Games at Q Arts in Derby throughout summer 2004. Relay was programmed to coincide with the Olympics in Athens and featured works by Jos Boys, Faye Chamberlain, Veronique Chance, Simon Green, Ellie Harrison, Adele Prince, NOScH and Linda Young. Q Arts closed in 2007 to make way for QUAD - Derby’s new art and film centre.
Re: Thinking: Time
10th April - 23rd May 2004
Ellie’s interactive Mac based work Tictac Typing & Peanut Typing was installed as part of Re: Thinking: Time - an exhibition of artworks made during the LabCulture residency programme curated by Ele Carpenter. The show took place at Peterborough Digital Arts (now The Space 4 Gallery in Peterborough) and included work by Alistair Gentry & Joe Magee, Ellie Harrison, Scott Martin, Damien Robinson and Ming Wong.
Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show
25th - 28th July 2003
Ellie exhibited The Monthly Sculptures Determined by the Daily Quantification Records at the 2003 Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show in London. The show also included work by Jaishri Abichandani, Caroline Achaintre, Eric Ayotte, Sarah Baker, Emma Barrow, Anat Ben-David, Juan Bolivar, Mauro Bonacina, Pablo Bronstein, Simon Clark, Lior Danzig, Dan Davis, Doug Fishbone, Oriana Fox, Laura Gannon, Ellie Harrison, Pearl Hsiung, Jamie Kilburn, Philip Lee, Shoko Maeda, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Jost Münster, Anj Smith, Sarah Smith, Akiko & Masako Takada, Alvaro Verduzco, Richard T Walker, Richard O Wilson and Neil Zakiewicz.
Treat Yourself
23rd May - 9th November 2003
The animated film of Ellie’s Eat 22 project was shown in the exhibition Treat Yourself: Health Consumers in a Medical Age, at the Science Museum in London. Ellie’s work featured in the ‘Food and Drink’ section alongside Sophie Calle and Martin Parr. The exhibition also featured works by Michelle Charles, Brian Eno, Leo Fitzmaurice, Paddy Hartley, Mona Hatoum, Nancy Honey, Anne-Claire Maurier, Jorge Molder, Angela Rumble, Gabriella Sancisi, Helen Sweeting, Shellburne Thurber, Andrei Tarkovsky, Spencer Tunick, Julian Walker and Shelley Wilson.
Minus 20
24th January 2002 - ongoing
Ellie’s specially produced piece Minus 20kJ was selected for Minus 20 - an online exhibition by E-2 of digital art works under 20kb. The exhibition was launched at the Gasworks Gallery in London on 24th January 2002 and features works by Paul Allitt, boredomresearch, Phil Coy, Nat Goodden, Ellie Harrison, Christopher Otto, Random77, Tim Taylor and Anna Williams & John Rogers.
