Ellie Harrison - March 2002

Standalone film designed to be exhibited on a monitor - previously shown at the Science Museum in London from 23 May - 9 November 2003 and now on permanent display at the new Wellcome Collection museum.

This high-speed animated film features all of the 1640 photographs taken during the project Eat 22, for which I photographed everything I ate for a year. Reproduced courtesy of the Wellcome Trust.

For a better quality version of this film please visit:

http://www.eat22.com

Ellie Harrison - December 2000

Film documenting a kinetic installation originally installed at Nottingham Trent University, whilst I was in the 3rd year of my BA Fine Art course in 2000.

The carrot and the éclair moved round the two train tracks at speeds proportional to their energy contents.

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Ellie Harrison - January 2007

Film made to be shown on an upturned mini TV as part of a site-specific installation at the OEen Group gallery in Copenhagen. The exhibition took place inside a container on the second floor of a building site.

The film features a Danish builder character, who invites the audience to vote on whether or not they think the artwork (a scale model of the gallery) is any good. Their decision helps to determine whether it is saved or destroyed.

Danish version made by learning the script phonetically.

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http://www.ellieharrison.com/index.php?pagecolor=3&pageId=project-selfdestruction

For one year and one day Ellie Harrison photographed and recorded information about everything that she ate. The images and the data about them were posted to the Eat 22 website weekly, over the course of the year. The website was then redesigned and relaunched in 2007 to coincide with the opening of the Wellcome Collection in London (UK), where the animated film featuring all the images is now on permanent display.

http://www.eat22.com/

In this kinetic installation a carrot and a chocolate éclair race around two facing train tracks at speeds proportional to their chemical energy contents - the éclair being just over three times faster than the vegetable of a comparable size.

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This kinetic sculpture was designed to give gravitational potential energy to apples. Apples are placed on the escalator device at the rear of the bike and, as a result of the bike being pedalled, are transported to a height above the ground proportional to their chemical energy content. A similar, but proportionally larger, Potential Generator for doughnuts was also designed.

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This kinetic installation uses two found weight mechanism clocks. The lead weights which are normally used to power the clocks have been removed and replaced by foods (bread and bananas) of the same mass. The clocks continue to work as normal - powered by the gravitational potential energy inherent in the foods. Originally installed at Goldsmiths College in 2002 and then at the Colony gallery space in Birmingham in 2004.

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This colour-coded vinyl bar chart visualises the exact quantity of gaseous emissions Ellie produced daily throughout 2003. The piece was originally created in 2003 as a studio based wall chart exploring the notion of ‘artistic output’, for which Ellie added one bar to the chart each day. In 2007 the completed chart was installed as semi-permanent installation on glass at Birmingham Moor Street Station as part the New Art Birmingham exhibition Ariston. There is also an online version of the chart.

http://www.ellieharrison.com/index.php?pagecolor=3&pageId=project-statistics