Her work takes a variety of forms including performance spectacles, interactive installations, collaborative projects, political campaigns, media interventions, lectures, websites and coach trips.
She uses skills and strategies drawn from each of these perspectives to create playful and engaging work, in-and-out of art world contexts, which aims to expose and challenge the systems which control and rule over our lives, be they political, ethical, social or economic.
The image is from Fireworks Display 26 June 2010 - 'a one-woman attempt to re-enact a chronology of ‘the history of revolution’ over the course of the last 360 years via the medium of pyrotechnics.'
Ellie Harrison’s practice can be seen at www.ellieharrison.com (which links through to all the other online stuff if you investigate far enough)
+ Vimeo page for video documentation
www.vimeo.com/ellieharrison
+ Facebook page for recent news / pics
www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion
This is my MFA thesis, which I might talk about a bit:
www.ellieharrison.com/essays/trajectories/
Ellie Harrison was born in London in 1979. She lives and works in Glasgow. In 2009 she founded the Bring Back British Rail campaign and in 2010 she became the first individual artist to openly publicise an Environmental Policy on her website.
She is the secretary of The Artists’ Bond - established in 2011 as the successor to the Artists’ Lottery Syndicate - and is a full member of the Scottish Artists Union.
www.ellieharrison.comging from her ongoing attempt to strike-a-balance between the competing roles of ‘artist’, ‘activist’ and ‘administrator’.
She uses skills and strategies drawn from each of these perspectives to create playful and engaging work, in-and-out of art world contexts, which aims to expose and challenge the systems which control and rule over our lives, be they political, ethical, social or economic.
Her work takes a variety of forms including performance spectacles, interactive installations, collaborative projects, political campaigns, media interventions, lectures, websites and coach trips.
Ellie Harrison was born in London in 1979. She lives and works in Glasgow. In 2009 she founded the Bring Back British Rail campaign and in 2010 she became the first individual artist to openly publicise an Environmental Policy on her website.
She is the secretary of The Artists’ Bond - established in 2011 as the successor to the Artists’ Lottery Syndicate - and is a full member of the Scottish Artists Union.
www.ellieharrison.com
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