This is an archived page from the Website Archive of British artist Ellie Harrison from Version 3.0 (active 2008 - 2015). New website: www.ellieharrison.com

last updated
15th July 2015

April 2009
AN Magazine (page 19)


Subscriber Prize: Five copies of Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector by Ellie Harrison to be won, courtesy of Plymouth College of Art Press.

Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector is the first book to be published about the work of Ellie Harrison. It is published to coincide with the artist’s solo exhibition at the Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, 23 April - 30 May.

Ellie Harrison was a ‘data collector’. For over five years she documented and recorded information about nearly every aspect of her daily routine, amassing reams of data in the process. She photographed and catalogued 1,640 meals and snacks for her project Eat 22, and calculated the total distance of a year’s worth of travel on public transport for Gold Card Adventures. But these laborious, demanding and introverted processes took their toll. Something had to give. Ellie had to quit!

Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector documents the process of rehabilitation that followed Harrison’s decision, as she set about coming to terms with her ‘data collecting’ past and beginning to reinvent her role as artist. It features a specially commissioned text by Sally O’Reilly and an introduction by Hannah Jones.

40pp with colour illustrations
Softback 978-0-9557491-3-1 £10
www.plymouthart.ac.uk
www.ellieharrison.com

To enter you must be a subscriber. Email prizes@a-n.co.uk putting ‘Subscriber prize’ in the email title. Add your name, address and which competition you are entering in the body text. Deadline 24 April. Call 0191 241 8000 to subscribe and enter the competition.