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2012

  • 2012 Media

    Early Warning Signs

    19 Jul 2012
    The List (p.92)

  • 2012 Publication

    A Guide for the Incurably Curious

    12 Jul 2012
    Wellcome Collection (p.76-77) ISBN 978-0957028517

  • 2012 Social / Networks

    National Museum of Roller Derby

    The National Museum of Roller Derby (NMRD) collection was founded at Glasgow Women’s Library in 2012 as Harrison’s contribution to the Library’s 20th anniversary celebrations. As a new ‘outreach’ initiative, the NMRD aims to bring a whole new, strong and revolutionary young audience to the Library, by using it as a home for the UK’s first permanent archive for the new and exciting all-female, full-contact sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby.
    Project website

  • 2012 Newsletter

    National Museum of Roller Derby / Ellie & Oliver Show

    13 Jun 2012

  • 2012 Lectures

    What If… Artists Redesigned Economics?

    Sustain Talks at Royal College of Art, London. Noel Douglas from Occupy Design UK, artist Ellie Harrison, and James Meadway and Ruth Potts from the New Economics Foundation discuss the failure of capitalism to deliver on social and environmental wellbeing, and explore the structures that might be, redefining economic parameters. Chaired by Cecilia Wee, RCA. Visual Communication graduate 2012, Livia Lima presents her work on alternative currencies.

  • 2012 Media

    On the Town

    1 Jun 2012
    ArtReview (Issue 60 p.154)

  • 2012 Media

    How to Celebrate an Art Festival

    17 May 2012
    a-n website

  • 2012 Exhibition

    Experimenting With Clouds

    12 May 2012
    Rua Red, Dublin (Ireland)

  • 2012 Media

    In conversation with Jordan McKenzie

    1 May 2012
    Artquest, London

  • 2012 Exhibition

    Ellie & Oliver Show

    20 Apr 2012
    Glasgow International

  • 2012 Exhibition

    Art Lending Library

    20 Apr 2012
    Glasgow International

  • 2012 Media

    Glasgow International 2012

    4 Apr 2012
    a-n website

  • 2012 Newsletter

    The Artists’ Bond

    1 Apr 2012

  • 2012 Media

    Artist Fund Thyself

    1 Apr 2012
    Art Monthly (Issue 355 p.16)

  • 2012 Lectures

    21 Revolutions

    Talk given by Harrison – in full Roller Derby attire – at Glasgow Women’s Library on 22 March 2012, where she discusses the ideas and hobbies, which developed into her founding of the National Museum of Roller Derby that June.

  • 2012 Lecture

    In conversation with Richard DeDomenici

    16 Mar 2012
    Buzzcut, Glasgow

  • 2012 Media

    Ellie & Oliver Show

    15 Mar 2012
    Central Station

  • 2012 Media

    Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid collaborate on weekly podcast

    5 Mar 2012
    The List

  • 2012 Lectures

    The Story

    A lecture by Harrison at The Story conference giving autobiographical whirlwind account of how her ideas have developed in relation to her life’s trajectory, exploring how her work has tended to reflect the things going on in the world around her.

  • 2012 Writing

    It’s like 10,000 ‘friends’, when all you need is a friend

    Harrison details how social media makes us feel as though we’re "employed as administrators for our own lives" in this special text for Oliver Braid‘s exhibition My Five New Friends at The Royal Standard in 2012. (Word count: 903)

  • 2012 Exhibition

    Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens

    7 Jan 2012
    Phoenix, Leicester

  • 2012 Internet / Broadcasts

    Ellie & Oliver Show

    For a whole year, artists, friends and flatmates Ellie Harrison & Oliver Braid worked together to broadcast a weekly radio show LIVE from their flat in Glasgow (and from a variety of special locations across the UK and Ireland including Edinburgh Art Festival and Glasgow International).
    Project website

  • 2012 Media

    FareFail Fails the Fairness Test

    3 Jan 2012
    Guido Fawkes

  • 2012 Media

    Interview with Ellie Harrison

    3 Jan 2012
    BBC Three Counties Radio

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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 – 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 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Ellie Harrison

Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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This 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 in Glasgow! 📢 I'm delighted to be talking about my work with Get Glasgow Moving & Glasgow Community Energy at the 𝘙𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸? conference at the University of Glasgow 🎟️ Tickets are free, so come join us 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! 👇 You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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"We need The Scottish Government to support our transport authority, SPT, to bring the bus network back into public control, so they can deliver a fully-integrated, accessible and affordable public transport network across the region like Greater Manchester’s new ‘Bee Network’, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshire’s ‘People’s Network’" — Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸 👏 Read online here 👇
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm 🌍 Find out more 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Are you in Glasgow this evening? Come along to this free screening of the brilliant POWER Film at The Glasgow School of Art 👇 I'll be introducing the event, talking about my work with Glasgow Community Energy and chairing a Q&A with artist and filmmaker Hilary Powell 😊 @followersSave the date! 🌞 We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion 👇
🗓️ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
🎟️ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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4 months ago
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It’s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning 😡 Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 for an essential public service as bankers in the City of London? Shame on The Scottish Government for presiding over this system for more than 25 years! @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Ten years ago today, I was just beginning my year-long durational performance #TheGlasgowEffect which was to become one of the most controversial publicly-funded artworks that Scotland had ever seen.

Part psychological experiment, part protest, part strike, for the whole of 2016, I vowed not to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike.

I described my experience of starting #TheGlasgowEffect, including being at the centre of the social media stooshie it provoked, in ‘When the Chips Hit the Fan’ – Chapter 5 of my book ‘The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint’ published by Luath Press 📚

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if you’d like to be transported back to that moment in January 2016... Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/book @followers
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It's been brilliant working with Metro Map Design to produce Get Glasgow Moving's new film setting out our vision for the new #ClydeMetro integrated public transport system 🤩 Check it out here 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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