Ellie Harrison

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2023

  • 2023 Media

    The art of bus campaigning

    7 Dec 2023
    Jonathan Bray: News and stories of progressive change

  • 2023 Lecture

    Centre for Cities Report Launch

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison introduces Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities, at the launch of their new report Miles better: Improving public transport in the Glasgow City Region at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

  • 2023 Media

    The Nationalโ€™s book recommendations

    8 Oct 2023
    Sunday National (p.11)

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical interview to celebrate announcement on bus regulation

    6 Oct 2023
    Lisa Marrey, BBC Radio Merseyside

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation in Greater Manchester

    22 Sep 2023
    Channel 4 News

  • 2023 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical – special artist’s talk at Manchester Art Gallery

    19 Sep 2023

  • 2023 Lecture

    Taking our buses back into public control: What can Glasgow learn from Manchester & Liverpool?

    6 Sep 2023
    Unite Scotland

  • 2023 Media

    Investment Principles podcast: Sustainability

    16 Aug 2023
    Arts Council England

  • 2023 Media

    Glasgow’s night bus crisis

    14 Aug 2023
    BBC Reporting Scotland, BBC One

  • 2023 Media

    Glasgow searches for transport integration

    9 Aug 2023
    RAIL magazine (Issue 989 p.48-52)

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical feature

    16 Jul 2023
    Politics North West, BBC One

  • 2023 Exhibition

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    15 Jul 2023
    The Black-E, Liverpool

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical interview

    12 Jul 2023
    Helen Jones, BBC Radio Merseyside

  • 2023 Newsletter

    Donโ€™t miss these free events in Liverpool & Glasgow this summer

    10 Jul 2023

  • 2023 Media

    Making a song and dance about local buses

    10 Jul 2023
    The Northern Agenda

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical coming to a theatre near you

    9 Jul 2023
    Liverpool Echo

  • 2023 Lecture

    Campaigning for Outstanding Bus Services

    17 Jun 2023
    Yorkshire & Humber Pensioners Association, York

  • 2023 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical – Don’t miss your last chance to see the show!

    12 Jun 2023

  • 2023 Lecture

    Cycling the hidden Molendinar Burn

    19 May 2023
    OnBikes, Glasgow

  • 2023 Lecture

    Embedding sustainability principles in practice

    16 May 2023
    a-n Artist Council

  • 2023 Media

    Regulate! Ellie Harrison interview by Lynsey Hanley

    1 May 2023
    Tribune (Issue 18 p.92-94)

  • 2023 Media

    Faut-il privatiser les transports en commun?

    16 Apr 2023
    27, ARTE (France)

  • 2023 Lecture

    Energy Communities of Nepantla

    30 Mar 2023
    Sunlight Liberation Network

  • 2023 Lecture

    Chairโ€™s Report

    29 Mar 2023
    Glasgow Community Energy AGM, St Pauls Youth Forum, Glasgow

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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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Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' ๐Ÿ“š

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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! ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš† Listen to find out more about my campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving, Better Buses for Strathclyde, Bring Back British Rail & GoBike ๐Ÿ‘‡ @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 ๐Ÿ“ท

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 โ€˜The Bossโ€™ 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 โ€˜The History of Financial Crisesโ€™ (2009), โ€˜Desk Chair Paradeโ€™ (2009) and โ€˜Desk Chair Discoโ€™ (2011), and the โ€˜Work-a-thon for the Self-Employedโ€™ (2011).

Iโ€™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 Iโ€™m preparing for Get Glasgow Movingโ€™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 Iโ€™m passionate about. Over the years I've designed many campaign materials โ€“ including this โ€˜Trans-Clyde Links You Clyde-Wideโ€™ 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 Thatcherโ€™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 regionโ€™s buses back in public control.

If you like the T-Shirt, come down to the exhibition in September and youโ€™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 ๐Ÿ˜Š See you there! @followers
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1 month ago
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This ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐Ÿฑ ๐—๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ in Glasgow! ๐Ÿ“ข I'm delighted to be talking about my work with Get Glasgow Moving & Glasgow Community Energy at the ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ: ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Ž๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ? conference at the University of Glasgow ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Tickets are free, so come join us ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ...

3 months ago
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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! ๐Ÿ‘‡ You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
๐Ÿ“บ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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4 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 Manchesterโ€™s new โ€˜Bee Networkโ€™, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshireโ€™s โ€˜Peopleโ€™s Networkโ€™" โ€” Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about ๐˜ˆ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜Ž๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐Ÿ‘ Read online here ๐Ÿ‘‡
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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5 months ago
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '๐—”๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm ๐ŸŒ Find out more ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ...

5 months ago
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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 ๐Ÿ‘‡ 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 ๐Ÿ˜Š @followersSave the date! ๐ŸŒž We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion ๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
๐Ÿ“ Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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5 months ago
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Itโ€™s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning ๐Ÿ˜ก Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ 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 ...

7 months ago
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