Ellie Harrison

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2012

  • 2012 Media

    Notes towards Becoming a Good Citizen

    16 Dec 2012
    New Escapologist (Issue 8 p.17-21)

  • 2012 Media

    The Hour of Power

    9 Dec 2012
    Resonance FM

  • 2012 Exhibition

    Data as Culture

    30 Nov 2012
    Open Data Institute, London

  • 2012 Lecture

    The Lush Prize

    Alongside activist Peter Tatchell, Harrison co-hosted the awards ceremony for the inaugural Lush Prize in support of alternatives to animal testing.

  • 2012 Internet / Broadcasts

    Friendship Festival

    For Glasgay! 2012, Harrison & her flatmate Oliver Braid presented Friendship Festival. Building on the success of their popular radio show, they invited six other friendly duos with intimate and provocative thoughts to share with the world, into their home for a series of weekend radio show ‘takeovers’.

  • 2012 Installations
    The Redistribution of Wealth installed at Tate Britain in 2012

    The Redistribution of Wealth

    Installed in Tate Britainโ€™s Historic Collection Room, this piece retells the history of UK government spending on the arts from the birth of the โ€˜Council for the Encouragement of Music & the Artsโ€™ in 1940, right up to the present day climate of cutbacks.

  • 2012 Media

    Acts of Legacy

    4 Oct 2012
    a-n website

  • 2012 Newsletter

    The Redistribution of Wealth (Late at Tate Britain)

    1 Oct 2012

  • 2012 Exhibition

    21 Revolutions

    22 Sep 2012
    Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

  • 2012 Media

    She Shelves Sanctuary

    9 Sep 2012
    Scotland on Sunday (The Week p.8-9)

  • 2012 Publication

    The New Home Front II

    8 Sep 2012
    Green Party of England & Wales (p.41-42)

  • 2012 Political Campaigns, Writing

    Bring Back British Rail

    As founder of the Bring Back British Rail campaign, Harrison was invited to write about the public ownership of our railways for the Green Party of England & Wales’s The New Home Front II (p.41-42) in 2012, which looks to the post-war period for lessons on how to tackle climate change now. (Word count: 709)

  • 2012 Media

    National Museum of Roller Derby

    1 Sep 2012
    Lead Jammer (Issue 3 p.14)

  • 2012 Media

    The Revolution on Roller Skates

    1 Sep 2012
    Inside Line (Issue 5 p.34)

  • 2012 Media

    Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby

    24 Aug 2012
    London Rockin' Rollers

  • 2012 Media

    Shelagh Fogarty Show Debate

    15 Aug 2012
    BBC Radio 5 Live

  • 2012 Media

    British Transportation Systems in Turmoil

    15 Aug 2012
    Double Standards, Press TV

  • 2012 Media

    Danny Kelly Show Interview

    14 Aug 2012
    BBC Radio WM

  • 2012 Media

    Jeremy Vine Show Interview

    14 Aug 2012
    BBC Radio 2

  • 2012 Media

    Action for Rail

    14 Aug 2012
    USi News UK

  • 2012 Media

    Rail Fares

    14 Aug 2012
    Boulton & Co, Sky News

  • 2012 Media

    Ellie & Oliver Show

    10 Aug 2012
    Summerhall TV

  • 2012 Exhibition

    Ellie & Oliver Show

    3 Aug 2012
    Edinburgh Art Festival

  • 2012 Newsletter

    Early Warning Signs / Ellie & Oliver Show

    2 Aug 2012

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 โ€“ 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the ๐Ÿ˜น LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers

It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Published today! Check out The Artists Bonds 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
artistsbond.co.uk/14artistsbondreport2024.pdf

Published today! Check out The Artists' Bond's 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
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This ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐Ÿฒ ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ, ๐Ÿณ๐—ฝ๐—บ! ๐Ÿ“ฃ Don't miss our FREE Cultivating Community Activism: Learning from Cathy McCormackโ€™s โ€˜The Wee Yellow Butterflyโ€™ event as part of Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ Listen to my interview on Sunny Govan to find out more! @followers tune in from 1:04:09 ๐Ÿ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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I was delighted to be interviewed about the Bring Back British Rail campaign for 14-year-old Riku Fryderyk's brilliant new documentary about rail re-nationalisation ๐Ÿš‰ Well worth a watch! ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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It was such an honour to be part of this wonderful event on Saturday, and to help launch the new freely-available audiobook of The Wee Yellow Butterfly by Cathy McCormack ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ“š Find out more at: glasgowenergy.coop/audiobook @followers

It was such an honour to be part of this wonderful event on Saturday, and to help launch the new freely-available audiobook of The Wee Yellow Butterfly by Cathy McCormack ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ“š Find out more at: glasgowenergy.coop/audiobook @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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  • Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector Book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector £10.00
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