Ellie Harrison
Ellie Harrison (born 1979)[1] is a British artist known for her use of large quantities of data, collected through labour-intensive games, trials, systems and experiments.
In 2005–2006 Harrison curated Day-to-Day Data, a group exhibition of 'artists who collect list, database and absurdly analyse the data of everyday life'.[citation needed] The exhibition visited Danielle Arnaud contemporary art in London, Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth and Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham. It was accompanied by a publication, a web-based exhibition and a Symposium that took place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 18 March 2006.
A typical work by Ellie Harrison is Eat 22, for which she photographed everything she ate for a year. Other large scale documentational projects include Gold Card Adventures, for which she calculated the total distance she travelled on London Transport in a year (9,236 kilometres), and the Daily Quantification Records, for which she collected data some 14 different elements of her daily life each day throughout 2003.
Harrison was born in Ealing in West London in 1979.[2] She studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University between 1998–2001, at Goldsmiths College from 2002–2003, and then at Glasgow School of Art from 2008-2010 where she completed a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme.
[edit] References
- Day-to-Day Data website
- Eat 22 website
- Gold Card Adventures website
- Daily Quantification Records information
- Art on the Underground information
- BBC website Tea Blog feature
- Axisweb profile
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