The Finished Article

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I'M IN Ellie Harrison's studio in Glasgow School of Art, a pristine office with a pin-board that might belong to a corporate drone. Pinned up alongside complex graphs and motivational phrases - including injunctions to "read, think and experiment" - is a print- out of her monthly diary.

Harrison is a young artist, just finishing her Masters of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art and the diary is full of ominous- sounding words like "final assessment" and "degree show installation". The problem is that although her room is a testament to her hard work - there are ranks of posters of recent exhibitions, two books she has published, and shelves of volumes on moral philosophy - she hasn't completed a central aspect of her degree show and she wants me to do it for her.

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The Finished Article

The deal is this: at Glasgow's CCA, Harrison would like to present her work on a pristine white plinth, but it's not a sculpture. It's a newspaper article about her and her work.

"I've been working ...

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