History
of Sports Day
Sports Day was founded in 2005 by London based artist Adele Prince and Nottingham based artist Ellie Harrison. Adele and Ellie met through the group exhibition Day-to-Day Data, which was curated by Ellie and featured work by both artists. They discovered that they had many shared interests, including a passion for their weekly exercise routines and for transforming aspects of their everyday experiences into their work.
October 2005 saw their first collaborative project in the form of The Quotidian Factor: a gameshow style artists’ workshop for ARC at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Following the success of The Quotidian Factor, Adele (the keen runner) and Ellie (the devoted swimmer) founded Sports Day as a way of developing a network of artists in the UK and abroad, who spend time in the week exercising and who may want to share these otherwise uncelebrated achievements with others.
Sports Day was founded in 2005 by London based artist Adele Prince and Nottingham based artist Ellie Harrison. Adele and Ellie met through the group exhibition Day-to-Day Data, which was curated by Ellie and featured work by both artists. They discovered that they had many shared interests, including a passion for their weekly exercise routines and for transforming aspects of their everyday experiences into their work.
October 2005 saw their first collaborative project in the form of The Quotidian Factor: a gameshow style artists’ workshop for ARC at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Following the success of The Quotidian Factor, Adele (the keen runner) and Ellie (the devoted swimmer) founded Sports Day as a way of developing a network of artists in the UK and abroad, who spend time in the week exercising and who may want to share these otherwise uncelebrated achievements with others.
Ellie Harrison
Adele Prince
