Ellie Harrison

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2017

  • 2017 Media

    Editor’s Picks

    9 Dec 2017
    The Guardian (The Guide p.24)

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Slow Violence

    29 Nov 2017
    Art & Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire

  • 2017 Education

    Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education

    1 Nov 2017
    (pass), University of Dundee

  • 2017 Lecture

    Think Outside the Circle

    26 Oct 2017
    Transform Scotland AGM, Glasgow City Chambers

  • 2017 Media

    The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression

    24 Oct 2017
    e-flux

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Rising

    29 Sep 2017
    Art Licks Weekend, London

  • 2017 Publication

    Eat Me

    23 Sep 2017
    Trapholt (Denmark) (p.28 & p.154-155) ISBN 978-8772690216

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Eat Me

    23 Sep 2017
    Trapholt, Kolding (Denmark)

  • 2017 Lecture

    Air Pollution & Better Buses

    15 Jul 2017
    Friends of the Earth Scotland Summer Weekender, Wiston Lodge

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    3 Jun 2017
    York Art Gallery

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Alles zur Zeit

    21 May 2017
    Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)

  • 2017 Media

    Rebellious Concepts

    1 Apr 2017
    Sleek (Issue 53 p.78-82) (Germany)

  • 2017 Media

    Q&A with Leisure Land Golf artist Ellie Harrison

    10 Mar 2017
    Art Fund

  • 2017 Lecture

    Energising Culture

    9 Mar 2017
    Julie's Bicycle, Barbican, London

  • 2017 Lecture

    How can we afford an ethical practice?

    1 Mar 2017
    Royal College of Art, London

  • 2017 Lecture

    Universal Basic Income

    23 Feb 2017
    For Fika Sake, Glasgow

  • 2017 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect

    22 Feb 2017
    CECHR Annual Symposium, University of Dundee

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Show Me the Money!

    10 Feb 2017
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (Denmark)

  • 2017 Newsletter

    The Glasgow Effect

    10 Feb 2017

  • 2017 Media

    Ellie Harrison – ‘The Glasgow Effect was a boycott of the oil industry, of privatised public transport’

    9 Feb 2017
    The List

  • 2017 Media

    The Glasgow Effect

    7 Feb 2017
    Kiltr

  • 2017 Media

    Love your local? Liverpool joins cohort of community currencies

    3 Feb 2017
    The Guardian

  • 2017 Media

    The timely return of activism

    28 Jan 2017
    The Herald (The Arts p.6)

  • 2017 Lecture

    In Conversation with Kathrin Böhm

    26 Jan 2017
    NN Contemporary Art, Northampton

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

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Opening this Thursday! 📢 Please don't miss this special exhibition I've curated to celebrate the Get Glasgow Moving campaign's 10th Anniversary 🥳 I've been working on it all summer and it's 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 at The New Glasgow Society as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival #GDODF26 @followers 🙏 ...

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I was delighted to be back in Liverpool City Region this week for the launch of Merseytravel's new publicly-controlled bus network 🚌🥳 I staged 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' here in 2022 and 2023 as part of the campaign which led to Steve Rotheram's decision to become the 2nd UK city region to roll-out bus franchising, after Greater Manchester. Find out more here: ellieharrison.com/merseyside @followers ...

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After 10 years campaigning, it's just brilliant to see The Scottish Government finally taking action to regulate bus fares in Glasgow 👏 But their £2 fare cap will do nothing to improve services, create new routes or integrate timetables and tickets with other transport modes 🚍🚇🚆 For that we must bring our bus network back into public control. Please support Better Buses for Strathclyde to make it happen ✊ @followers ...

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Thanks so much to The National Newspaper for inviting me to discuss how to fix Glasgow's public transport on their podcast! 😄🚍🚇🚆 Listen to find out more about my campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving, Better Buses for Strathclyde, Bring Back British Rail & GoBike 👇 @followers ...

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It was great to meet Paul from PalFox Photography last month when he visited me at Wasps Studios Hanson Street to take these fab pictures 📷

My studio has always been more like an office than anything else, going back to my very first one in Glasgow in the Barnes Building at The Glasgow School of Art from 2008-2010. I bought ‘The Boss’ mug back then as I was interested in the aesthetics of the corporate world and exploring what it meant to be self-employed worker, making pieces like ‘The History of Financial Crises’ (2009), ‘Desk Chair Parade’ (2009) and ‘Desk Chair Disco’ (2011), and the ‘Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed’ (2011).

I’m not making much art these days as nearly all my time goes into local community activism, particularly with the Glasgow Community Energy co-operative which I helped get up-and-running during the pandemic, and with the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign which I co-founded in 2016.

Over the summer I’m preparing for Get Glasgow Moving’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at the New Glasgow Society, which opens on Thurs 17 September as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026.

I love using my creative skills to further causes that I’m passionate about. Over the years I've designed many campaign materials – including this ‘Trans-Clyde Links You Clyde-Wide’ T-Shirt, which is based on the original marketing for the Trans-Clyde integrated public transport network launched by the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive in 1979, the year that I was born.

The integrated public transport networks which most big city-regions had were wilfully destroyed in 1986 with the deregulation (and later privatisation) of buses. This was one of the most destructive of all Margaret Thatcher’s policies, and it is shameful that The Scottish Government has continued to maintain it for more than quarter of a century of devolution. With the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign, we are doing all we can to get our region’s buses back in public control.

If you like the T-Shirt, come down to the exhibition in September and you’ll be able to get one there! And, if you'd like to have a nosey round my studio, I'm also planning to take part in the Open Studios at Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow on Sat 3 October 😊 See you there! @followers
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2 months ago
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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 ...

3 months ago
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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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5 months ago
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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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