Ellie Harrison

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Life Raft

  • 2025 Exhibition

    Winter Sculpture Park

    1 Mar 2025
    Thamesmead Golf Course, London

  • 2019 Writing

    The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

    On 4 November 2019, Luath Press published Harrison’s first book. Inspired by her 2016 ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect – for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – the book provides the complete context for her thinking and action. (Word count: 119,000)

  • 2018 Exhibition

    Stored Sculpture Inventory

    20 Apr 2018
    Sculpture Showroom, Glasgow International

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Rising

    29 Sep 2017
    Art Licks Weekend, London

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    3 Jun 2017
    York Art Gallery

  • 2017 Media

    Q&A with Leisure Land Golf artist Ellie Harrison

    10 Mar 2017
    Art Fund

  • 2016 Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    2 Jul 2016
    QUAD, Derby

  • 2016 Lecture

    In Conversation with Doug Fishbone

    5 May 2016
    New Art Exchange, Nottingham

  • 2016 Media

    Is it art or crazy golf?

    13 Apr 2016
    Nottingham Evening Post

  • 2016 Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    2 Apr 2016
    New Art Exchange, Nottingham

  • 2016 Media

    The crazy golf course tackling capitalism, migration and police brutality

    21 Feb 2016
    The Guardian

  • 2015 Media

    Dead Reckoning: Ellie Harrison & The Art of Austerity

    24 Jun 2015
    Furtherfield

  • 2015 Writing

    Venice Biennale: Think Local, Act Global!

    Harrison self-critically reflects on the experience of taking part in the 2015 Venice Biennale (as part of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf) in this short text for Press Room, which laid the groundwork for The Glasgow Effect in 2016. (Word count: 760)

  • 2015 Media

    The top artists at this year’s Venice Biennale

    14 May 2015
    Dazed Digital

  • 2015 Installations
    Life Raft in action at Venice Biennale in 2015

    Life Raft

    Designed as the final hole of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, Life Raft – a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal – offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing.
    Project website

  • 2015 Media

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    7 May 2015
    BBC News at Six, BBC One

  • 2015 Newsletter

    High Street Casualties: The Exhibition (and other news)

    28 Apr 2015

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 – 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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I’m celebrating the 10th Anniversary of my crazy-golf inspired sculpture Life Raft by showing it as part of Gallery No.32s Winter Sculpture Park at the former Thamesmead golf course until 26 April 2025 ⛳ @followers When the Sculpture Park closes, I will be looking for a new home for Life Raft, so if you can help in anyway, please get in touch! 🙏

I’m celebrating the 10th Anniversary of my crazy-golf inspired sculpture 'Life Raft' by showing it as part of Gallery No.32's Winter Sculpture Park at the former Thamesmead golf course until 26 April 2025 ⛳ @followers When the Sculpture Park closes, I will be looking for a new home for 'Life Raft', so if you can help in anyway, please get in touch! 🙏 ... See MoreSee Less

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Im delighted to be showing my 2015 piece Life Raft as part of Gallery No.32s Winter Sculpture Park 2025, which opens this Saturday 1 March, 11-5pm in the former Thamesmead golf course in London ⛳ @followers I have a few places on the guest list for Saturdays party, so get in touch ASAP if youd like to come: https://www.galleryno32.co.uk/sculpture2025.html

I'm delighted to be showing my 2015 piece 'Life Raft' as part of Gallery No.32's Winter Sculpture Park 2025, which opens this Saturday 1 March, 11-5pm in the former Thamesmead golf course in London ⛳ @followers I have a few places on the guest list for Saturday's party, so get in touch ASAP if you'd like to come: www.galleryno32.co.uk/sculpture2025.html ... See MoreSee Less

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On the picket line today with fellow UCU members trying to protect jobs at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee and University of Dundee ✊ @followers

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Thanks to everyone who came to our Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion on Saturday 15 February at GoMA - Glasgow Museums 👏 The event marked a decade since Ellie Harrison’s Dark Days project, for which the artist invited 100 people to spend the night in GoMA’s great hall as part of a pop-up community 🙌 @followers

Thanks to everyone who came to our Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion on Saturday 15 February at GoMA - Glasgow Museums 👏 The event marked a decade since Ellie Harrison’s Dark Days project, for which the artist invited 100 people to spend the night in GoMA’s great hall as part of a pop-up community 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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