Ellie Harrison was awarded £15,000 from Creative Scotland to spend the year in Glasgow Getty ImagesA leading Scottish university has distanced itself from an arts project being undertaken by one of its lecturers. Ellie Harrison was awarded £15,000 from Creative Scotland to spend the year in Glasgow. The experimental artist triggered an angry backlash earlier this year after calling her project The Glasgow Effect, a term that refers to its poor health record, and promoting it with an image of chips. Ms Harrison, a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, part of the University of Dundee, was accused of being a middle-class tourist and sneering at the residents of Scotland’s largest city.

Source: The Times October 19, 2016 23:03 UTC