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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Ellie Harrison

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

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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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🚶🚲🚍🚇🚉 I was honoured to be invited to discuss my activism with Bring Back British Rail, Get Glasgow Moving & Better Buses for Strathclyde at ETF's 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 conference at KVS Brussels 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Why are we still waiting for better buses? 🚌 Check out this brilliant new animation by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee graduate Sooz Reilly which we launched this week as part of the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign. Please take two minutes to 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗦𝗣𝘀 to demand action 👇 @followers
📨 betterbuses.uk/strathclyde/#email
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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

7 months ago
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Published today! Che

Published today! Check out The Artists' Bond's 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling £125 🥳💷 This means an annual payout of £0.79 for each or our 159 artist members 👏 @followers Read more here 👇
artistsbond.co.uk/14artistsbondreport2024.pdf
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This 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝟲 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟳𝗽𝗺! 📣 Don't miss our FREE Cultivating Community Activism: Learning from Cathy McCormack’s ‘The Wee Yellow Butterfly’ event as part of Govanhill International Festival 🙌 Listen to my interview on Sunny Govan to find out more! @followers tune in from 1:04:09 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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