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2019

  • 2019 Media

    The Glasgow Effect interview

    19 Dec 2019
    Jackie Brambles, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    11 Dec 2019
    Blackwell's South Bridge, Edinburgh

  • 2019 Lecture

    COP Tales

    10 Dec 2019
    Creative Carbon Scotland, Civic House, Glasgow (36:04-42:26)

  • 2019 Lecture

    In Conversation with artist Ellie Harrison

    5 Dec 2019
    Outwith Agency, Glasgow

  • 2019 Lecture

    Assembly: Alternative Funding

    22 Nov 2019
    The NewBridge Project, Gateshead

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    13 Nov 2019
    The NewBridge Project, Gateshead

  • 2019 Lecture

    Art After the Collapse

    8 Nov 2019
    Dartington, Totnes

  • 2019 Media

    Public Transport Discussion

    7 Nov 2019
    The Nine, BBC Scotland

  • 2019 Lecture
    Pecha Kucha Dundee

    Pecha Kucha

    4 Nov 2019
    Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee

  • 2019 Writing

    The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

    On 4 November 2019, Luath Press published Harrison’s first book. Inspired by her 2016 ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect – for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – the book provides the complete context for her thinking and action. (Word count: 119,000)

  • 2019 Media

    You can’t take the girl out of Glasgow

    3 Nov 2019
    The Herald (Scottish Life p.6-9)

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    1 Nov 2019
    Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

  • 2019 Newsletter

    Early Warning Signs / Book Launch

    31 Oct 2019

  • 2019 Lecture

    Contemporary Art Practice Speaker’s Programme

    30 Oct 2019
    University of Dundee

  • 2019 Media

    The Glasgow Effect – Book Review

    28 Oct 2019
    Goodreads

  • 2019 Media

    Shut M8 to let Glasgow breathe, says artist

    27 Oct 2019
    The Sunday Times (p.5)

  • 2019 Media
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

    Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”

    27 Oct 2019
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)

  • 2019 Lecture

    Gender (Still) Matters! How Citizenship Education Can Promote Empowerment

    25 Oct 2019
    NECE, University of Strathclyde

  • 2019 Media

    Roller-skating bus regulation musical premieres in Manchester

    22 Oct 2019
    Coach & Bus Week

  • 2019 Lecture

    Radical!

    16 Oct 2019
    Culture Day, University of Dundee

  • 2019 Lecture

    How Glasgow Can Buy Back The Buses

    12 Oct 2019
    Glasgow's Debt - Glasgow's Promise, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

  • 2019 Lecture

    Transport Poverty: Problems & Solutions

    10 Oct 2019
    Challenge Poverty Week, Kinning Park Complex

  • 2019 Media

    What Bus Regulation: The Musical can tell us about the follies of privatisation

    3 Oct 2019
    CityMetric

  • 2019 Publication

    Feast for the Eyes

    1 Oct 2019
    Loose Associations, The Photographers' Gallery (Volume 5 p.19-20) ISSN 2397-0839

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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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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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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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