Gold Adventure
Monday 17th January 2005
Metro (page 38)
It’s that time of year when Londoners with January blues while away their daily Tube commute by dreaming of sunnier climes. Now, a young multi-media artist has turned her own daydreams into a collection of international postcards set to bring some exotic inspiration to Piccadilly Circus Station as part of London Underground’s Platform for Art programme.
Running from today until March 21, the exhibition records the journey of Goldsmiths graduate, Ellie Harrison, who used her annual Gold Travelcard to travel between her home in Ealing and her campus at Goldsmiths College, New Cross, in 2002. She recorded each journey made over the year - calculating the cumulative distance and marking “stages” on her journeys as if they corresponded to the equivalent distance to destinations all over the world.
With a total of 350 hours’ travel and 1,495 journeys on almost every Tube line and many bus and train routes, the project soon developed into an imaginary challenge to visit as many “destinations” as possible. The final work, Gold Card Adventures, comprises a series of 18 mock postcards - from Moscow to Mexico - with a note of the distances reached en route.
Platform for Art curator Tamsin Dillon said “Gold Card Adventures raises questions around local and global travel in the 21st Century by considering the meaning of distance and the possibility of seeing the world without even leaving the city”. For the full exhibition go to www.ellieharrison.com/goldcard.
Further Reference
Other Press
- After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison
- Night at the Museum
- Interview: Ellie Harrison
- A Most Unusual Referendum Results Party
- Art Review: Counterpoint
- Getting Straight to the Point
- Confetti Cannon Primed to Explode, or Maybe Not
- Indyref Confetti Cannon to go on Display at Edinburgh Art Festival
- Counterpoint at Edinburgh Art Festival 2014
- Eat 22 (interview with Ellie Harrison)
- Power For The People! (by Ellie Harrison)
- Counter-Hegemonic Propaganda Machine (by Ellie Harrison)
- The Hunger Artists
- The Artists’ Bond
- Notes Towards Becoming a Good Citizen (interview with Ellie Harrison)
- She Shelves Sanctuary
- National Museum of Roller Derby (interview with Ellie Harrison)
- Early Warning Signs
- Artist Fund Thyself
- Ellie & Oliver Show
- Art for the Age of Information
- Workers Are Not Alone
- Market Forces
- DIY Lottery Art Funding
- Converse Emerging Artists Award: Ellie Harrison
- Fair Exchange
- Vault Art Glasgow
- A Good Climate for Business (by Ellie Harrison)
- Interview with Ellie Harrison
- A Brief History of Privatisation
- Art Monthly Profile
- Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
- Trajectories (interview with Ellie Harrison)
- Furtherfield Radio
- Funding: One Alternative
- New Forms of Collectivity (by Ellie Harrison)
- The Finished Article
- Art Erupts Out of a Fine Mess
- Artists in a Bid for Success with Different Type of Draw
- Party Politics: Election Art
- Young Scottish Artists
- Budget Buzzwords Prompted Machine to Deliver Crisps
- Lady Dada
- Summer Reading
- Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid (by Ellie Harrison)
- Ellie Harrison Loves Tea
- Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector
- Five Pointers to Becoming the ‘Perfect Artist’
- How Can We Continue Making Art? (by Ellie Harrison)
- This is Not a Circular
- Ones to Watch
- Braziers International
- Two Years of Tea Blog
- Angel Row Closing Party
- The Obsessives
- New Stars on Broadway
- This is Ellie Harrison
- Prime
- Insignificance
- Day-to-Day Data Review
- Sports Day
- Many Conceptual Artists Have an Unholy Delight in Statistics
- Day-to-Day Data Review
- Under the Data, the Stars
- Day-to-Day Data Exhibitions Preview
- Out of the Ordinary
- Just the Facts...
- Day-to-Day Data Event Preview
- Underground Movement
- Postcard Artist Set to Go Underground
- Gold Adventure
- Not to Be Sneezed at...
- The Big Sneeze
- Artist’s Profile
- LabCulture Feature
- Treat Yourself Review
- A Day in the Life
- Eat Me!
- Eat 22 Events Preview
- Graduate’s Snappy Diet
- Diet Hard
- Little Gems