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  • 2006 Writing

    Part-time

    …the table. Chris (the tall man) sat at one end and his colleague Nick sat at the other (in the big chair). The interview focussed almost entirely on the information…

  • 2017 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect

    …take any time off. Like I just could not have any days off. So, I counted twelve days off that I had, five were at Christmas, but then I realised…

  • 2014 Media

    Scottish independence and artists: “It’s not about nationalism at all”

    In less than four weeks, Scotland will be voting to decide whether to become an independent nation or remain part of the UK. Chris Sharratt speaks to artists and those…

  • 2012 Media

    How to Celebrate an Art Festival

    …‘Christmas for artists’. We could keep it special by using the festival’s durational quality and temporary produce as a ‘totem’ to gather, unite and socialise around. I’m not suggesting that…

  • 2015 Media

    Blowing in the wind: artist launches campaign to fund art with renewable energy

    …the project. Any additional funds raised by the Kickstarter will go towards phase 2 – making the project happen – which Harrison states could cost up to £1m. Chris Sharratt…

  • 2014 Media

    Scottish indyref and artists: “No anger or disappointment”

    …in the name of reconciliation…’ After a passionate, loud, divisive and at times angry campaign, it’s a sentiment that can surely unite both sides of this Yes/No referendum. Chris Sharratt…

  • 2013 Media

    Artists’ Bond: “The aim is to forge a new sense of camaraderie”

    …way: “It’s a bit of collective fun, rather than a serious gambling problem!” To find out more about The Artists’ Bond and how to sign up, visit www.artistsbond.co.uk Chris Sharratt…

  • 2015 Media

    Project to turn renewable energy into arts funding has wind in its sails

    …society in general, helping to inspire and initiate positive social change.” Hear more about the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund at CCA Glasgow, Thursday 17 December, 6.30pm. Chris Sharratt…

  • 2012 Writing

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

    …Christmas sorting through and re-categorising the 1,500-odd ‘friends’ I have accumulated on Facebook over the last five years – painstaking shifting them into a variety of different ‘lists’. No doubt…

  • 2016 Social / Networks
    People Powered Money event at Glasgow City Chambers in November 2016

    People Powered Money

    …her work during The Glasgow Effect, Harrison helped to establish the ‘Glasgow Pound Working Group’ with local small business owner Chris Walls who had found Harrison through the webpage. Over…

  • 2015 Media

    Home Truths

    …GI but weren’t quite established enough to take part. We were looking to start something small, but it grew.” They quickly found more established artists – Sara Barker, Chris Coleman-Smith,…

  • 2015 Writing

    Venice Biennale: Think Local, Act Global!

    …captures the contradictions inherent in Okwui Enwezor’s sincere centrepiece show. (From what I got to see, only Christoph Büchel’s intervention successfully addresses the context of the ‘historic city’ in a…

  • 2001 Exhibition

    Trampoline

    Frank Abbott, AV_DV, David Bore, Jim Boxall, Chris Burns, Bill Callahan, Paul Drury & Ian Pare, Miles Chalcraft & Anette Schäfer, Finger Disko (Jon Burgerman & Ellie Harrison), Hollow Creature,…

  • 2016 Lecture

    The RRAAF Founding Symposium

    …that is that it intends to use: “the production of one sort of renewable energy to support the generation of another sort of energy, one that provokes and challenges.” Chris…

  • 2019 Lecture

    COP Tales

    Ben Twist, Chris Fremantle, Stop Climate Chaos, Manchester Science Festival, Glasgow National Park City, Creative Climate Symposium, Ellie Harrison, RSPB and Edinburgh Data Visualisation Meetup Group….

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Eat Me

    Dan Bannino, Katja Bjørn, Christopher Boffoli, Charlotte Brocard, Simone Brühl, Helen Chadwick, Søren Dahlgaard, Arpad Doriban, Jonas Edvard, Rose Eken, Marco Evaristti, Anja Franke, Anja Gallaccio, Ellie Harrison, John Isaacs,…

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Rising

    Helen Barff, Louise Beer, Ryan Gander, Helen Goodwin, Katie Goodwin, Ellie Harrison, Hayley Harrison, Ian Maslen, David Morgan-Davies, Catriona Leahy, Sujin Lim, Simon Read, Jessica Rinland, Ben Rivers and Chris…

  • 2005 Media

    Postcard Artist Set to Go Underground

    …in the ticket hall at Piccadilly Circus station. Gold Card Adventures will be displayed at Piccadilly Circus until March 21. For more information about Ellie’s work visit www.ellieharrison.com. Andreas Christophorou…

  • 2022 Performance / Events
    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at the Bluecoat on 13 November 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    …Roller Birds: Emilia Bona, Faye Wearing, Christine Higgins, Hannah Dickman, Shelly Salmon, Elle Jackson, Ellis Hogarth and Kate Rowlandson, and Wirral Roller Derby: Rebecca Farmer and Gemma Rigby, with music…

  • 2009 Exhibition

    It’s a Mess and Most Probably Irreversible

    Vasco Alvo, Cecile Azoulay, Sidsel Christensen, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Ellie Harrison, David Micheaud, Faith Millin, David Raymond Conroy, Joanna Steele and Jack Strange…

  • 2005 Media

    Exhibition: Day-to-Day Data

    …wayward to say the least. Hannah Brown will hand out her Daily Efficiency and Behaviour Analysis Self-Evaluation Checklists to challenge visitors to live up to her perfect day, while Christian…

  • 2005 Media

    Review: Day-to-Day Data

    …winning numbers by mapping banana skins onto Lotto cards in the spirit of pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions created by French writer Alfred Jarry in the 1890s. Christian…

  • 2016 Media

    Glasgow Effect artist may have the last laugh over misplaced internet ‘shaming’

    …just before Christmas that year, she tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids. Just kidding. I’m white!” It can be difficult to get tone across on a platform…

  • 2005 Media

    Sæbebobler på Skærmen

    …remme. En autentisk hjemmeside, formoder jeg, men hvordan kan jeg være sikker? Fra det infra-ordinære til det patafysiske. Min dagligdag på nettet er ikke længere den samme. Christian Yde Frostholm…

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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
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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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