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  • 2010 Writing

    Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom

    …can be solved by the market… The relationship between capitalism and eco-disaster is neither coincidental nor accidental: capital’s ‘need of a constantly expanding market’, its ‘growth fetish’, mean that capitalism…

  • 2011 Media

    Market Forces

    …– with a healthy dose of self-irony. What’s the best way to illustrate the succession of stock-market crashes that have given the lie to aggressive free-market finance? With a lot…

  • 2011 Media

    In Conversation: Two Degrees Festival curator Mark Godber and artist Ellie Harrison

    Arts Admin’s week-long festival of art, activism, climate and cuts, Two Degrees, opens this Sunday June 12. In anticipation jotta talks to curator Mark Godber about the festival’s aims to…

  • 2014 Writing

    The Art School Handbook

    …Higher Education that have unfolded in a similar time frame. Changes which are arguably the result of the same ‘free-market forces’ that have driven all this technological ‘innovation’ – but…

  • 2004 Media

    Not to Be Sneezed at…

    …Mark Patterson talks to artist Ellie Harrison. Did you know that, when you sneeze, your eyes close automatically to prevent your eyes from being squeezed out of your head? Surprisingly,…

  • 2009 Writing

    How Can We Continue Making Art?

    …existence. So they could landfill contemporary art spaces with flash marketing events instead.” (Eichler 2007, p.213) It is the unique reactionary potential of art which Guattari believes has led to…

  • 2017 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect

    …of globalisation, perhaps in tune with the other global events of 2016, from Brexit to Donald Trump. It was a protest against the market forces which force so many of…

  • 2011 Exhibition

    Market Forces

  • 2010 Newsletter

    The History of Financial Crises (Market Gallery)

  • 2011 Newsletter

    Market Forces (Wunderbar Festival)

  • 2016 Media

    Glasgow subway anniversary marked with campaign for integrated public transport

  • 2020 Media

    Artists to present work outdoors and online to mark dates of cancelled Edinburgh Art Festival

    The 2020 Edinburgh Art Festival may have been cancelled, but it has still commissioned ten artists to present work online or in outdoor spaces. Edinburgh Art Festival announced its cancellation…

  • 2015 Lectures
    Ethics: Extremism & Compromise

    Ethics: Extremism & Compromise

    …the absurd consequences of our capitalist system, and to explore the impact free-market forces are having on our society and our individual day-to-day lives. I just want to pick this…

  • 2016 Media

    Is it art or crazy golf?

    Ten leading artists have created a crazy gold course with a difference at Hyson Green’s New Art Exchange – it’s art you can play on. Art reviewer Mark Patterson went…

  • 2004 Media

    Recording Artist

    …change. Mark Patterson met her. At her current rate of progress, Ellie Harrison will have swum across the Atlantic in 94.2265 years. But the fact that she’s making the attempt…

  • 2005 Media

    Just the Facts…

    …the idea is that I’ll learn something new every day. One fact every day, but it won’t have to be connected to where I am or my cycling.” Mark Patterson…

  • 2006 Writing

    Part-time

    …for the charities to invest their marketing budget in this sort of ‘direct marketing’, because the results were (percentage wise), so much better than any leafleting campaign could ever hope…

  • 2013 Writing

    Counter-Hegemonic Propaganda Machine

    …broader audience and to draw attention to the negative side effects of the free-market system, which big-business would rather we did not notice at all. As well as these more…

  • 2017 Media

    The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art Worldโ€™s Performance of Progression

    …paradigmatic corporations in the field. It is an organisation whose octopoid reach spreads to criticism, curation, commissions, sales, acquisitions and much more. Its name is Denmark Street Limited (DSL). Incorported…

  • 2017 Media

    Rebellious Concepts

    …by ‘job lot’ auctions and online marketing scams. Their work has political aspects without any sense of the didactic. “We hope this work creates discussion, reflection and awareness, but we…

  • 2011 Media

    Fair Exchange

    Rosalie Doubal lifts the lid on an inventive new art market opening in Glasgow this month and profiles some of the artists showcasing their work. Vault is a new art…

  • 2008 Media

    Save Nottingham’s Victorian Baths

    …are now rallying support for the landmark building ahead of the final decision, to be announced on March 18. Sat, meet outside Council House, Market Square, Nottingham, 11.30am. Dan Davies…

  • 2014 Media

    Spear vs. Scissors: Art Held Captive by Budget Cuts

    …and related fields of research activity. To survive in a situation of intense competition, artists and galleries have no choice but to adapt to market demands. Moreover, bureaucrats suggest quite…

  • 2016 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion

    …veggie box. I couldn’t give two shits. But the problem is when that’s used as a marker of difference. And then my sister uses her buying a… I don’t know……

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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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Ellie Harrison

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

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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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3 weeks 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 ... 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 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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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 ... 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 Glasgowโ€™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 โ€˜When the Chips Hit the Fanโ€™ โ€“ Chapter 5 of my book โ€˜The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprintโ€™ published by Luath Press ๐Ÿ“š

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if youโ€™d like to be transported back to that moment in January 2016... Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/book @followers
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4 months ago
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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 ๐Ÿคฉ Check it out here ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš‰ 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 ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜—๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต conference at KVS Brussels ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

4 months ago
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Why are we still waiting for better buses? ๐ŸšŒ 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 ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐— ๐—ฆ๐—ฃ๐˜€ to demand action ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers
๐Ÿ“จ betterbuses.uk/strathclyde/#email
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