Ellie Harrison

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  • 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 โ€“ a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal โ€“ offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing.
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  • 2011 Installations
    The yellow on black sign installed outside Eastside Projects, Birmingham in 2013

    Early Warning Signs

    One of Harrison’s contributions to Two Degrees festival in 2011 and now on a life-long tour of UK arts venues. These four signs were designed to mimic those you might find outside a garage or a Bureau de Change. On a mission ‘promote’ climate change, they try hard to grab the attention of passers-by.
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  • 2011 Installations
    A Brief History of Privatisation installed at Watermans in 2011

    A Brief History of Privatisation

    An installation in which the oscillations in UK public service policy over the last century are re-enacted by an inner circle of electric massage chairs under the seedy glow of red, and then blue, neon.

  • 2009 Installations
    Vending Machine installed at the Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art in 2009

    Vending Machine

    An installation for which an old vending machine is reprogrammed to release snacks only when news relating to the recession makes the headlines on the BBC News RSS feed.

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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 โ€“ 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 ๐Ÿ˜น LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Iโ€™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 โ›ณ @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! ๐Ÿ™

Iโ€™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 โ›ณ @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! ๐Ÿ™ ... 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 โ›ณ @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 โ›ณ @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 โœŠ @followers

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 โœŠ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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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 ๐Ÿ‘ The event marked a decade since Ellie Harrisonโ€™s Dark Days project, for which the artist invited 100 people to spend the night in GoMAโ€™s great hall as part of a pop-up community ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers

Thanks to everyone who came to our Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion on Saturday 15 February at GoMA - Glasgow Museums ๐Ÿ‘ The event marked a decade since Ellie Harrisonโ€™s Dark Days project, for which the artist invited 100 people to spend the night in GoMAโ€™s great hall as part of a pop-up community ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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