• The chips and the fury

    …The job now, for Harrison, and for everybody else, is to seize the power back. I hope The Glasgow Effect does something wonderful to help make that happen. Neil Cooper

  • Ellie Harrison’s glorious piece of agit-prop theatre

    …how public services are being asset stripped in plain sight. This makes for a vitally of the moment piece of serious fun that is well worth the fare. Neil Cooper

  • Our arts body cannot only back risk-averse ideas

    …led to some fine writing and reflections. It would be an oversight to not mention rapper and writer Darren McGarvey, aka Loki, take on it, or our own Neil Cooper’s…

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)

    Neil Cooper describing it as “Ellie Harrison’s glorious piece of agit-prop theatre”. https://www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/photos/10162237540361336/ Bibliography Barclay, K, 2017, Scottish Buses during Deregulation, Amberley Publishing Barclay, K, 2019, Scottish Buses during Deregulation:…

  • Review: Edinburgh Art Festival 2020

    …be available from August 10th-30th. A live online performance of SING SIGN: a close duet will be performed by Hanna Tuulikki and Daniel Padden. Details to be confirmed. Neil Cooper

  • Counterpoint

    …as any to sprawl over and use as a viewing post for forthcoming performances by Jeans & MacDonald, Alexa Hare and Ortonandon. Whatever happens next, fireworks are inevitable. Neil Cooper

  • Notes towards Becoming a Good Citizen

    Neil Scott interviews Ellie Harrison about her transition from obsessive ‘data collector‘ to active political campaigner. The neoliberal orthodoxies of the last 30 years lie in tatters: free market capitalism…

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

    People Powered Money

    …the year the group grew to include: Ailie Rutherford, Archie Neil, Christie Williamson, Neil Scott, Caitlin O’Connell, Zara Kitson and Helen Voce. The group’s work culminated in the People Powered…

  • A Day in the Life

    …core of what photography is about: the passage of time through significant or insignificant moments”, says Elaine O’Neil, a professor of fine art photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology….

  • Dark Days Follow-Up

    Ellie Harrison’s Dark Days offered participants the unique opportunity to stay overnight at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow. Web developer Neil Scott was lucky enough to be one…

  • Consensus decision-making facilitated by Tripod

    Dark Days

    …Tramway as part of Creative Carbon Scotland’s Glasgow’s Green: Imaging a Sustainable City event on 14 March 2015 (both pictured below). Two other event participants: Caren Gilbert and Neil Scott,…

  • Artist as Active Citizen

    …Politics of Small Places: Paul Noble & Patrick Geddes, Cooper Gallery, p.17 ↩ 2. Macdonald, M, 1999, ‘The Significance of the Scottish Generalist Tradition’ in Popular Education & Social Movements…

  • Practising what we Preach

    …and specialise, but to combine. It should explore the ways in which mind and body can be made to cooperate; discover what new combinations make good wholes in human life….

  • Environmental Policy

    …Internet bank from The Co-operative Bank), which both operate strict ethical policies with regards to human rights, international development, ecological impact and animal welfare. She took part in The Co-operative…

  • How Glasgow Can Buy Back The Buses

    Mark Langdon (SANE), Research for Action, Ellie Harrison (Get Glasgow Moving) and Neil McInroy (CLES)….

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

    …The Glasgow Effect, carbon plummets to zero. O’Neill (2018, p.251) identifies that self-tracking data abstracts experience into numbers with potential to form the ‘ultimate dematerialized artwork’. By relying on an…

  • Website Archive

    This is Version 4.0 of ellieharrison.com designed and built by Neil Scott in collaboration with Harrison. The website was finally launched in October 2015, after nearly three years of development…

  • UK Weather Report

    …Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson, were busy compiling their 2010 ‘Weather Report’. The Effect of the Weather on the Market / The Effect of the Market on the Weather Taking…

  • Artists speak about ‘value’ at For the love of it

    …hour-long break out sessions. Martin’s introductory sentiment was echoed throughout the day, particularly during the first break out session on ‘Value’. Led by theorist Neil Cummings, curator and lecturer Sophie…

  • The Glasgow Effect

    Film by Stuart Platt Q&A chaired by Peter McCaughey Thanks to Peter McCaughey, Michelle Emery-Barker, Janie Nicoll & Jenny Brownrigg Ushering by Margaret McInnes, Sheena Maclean, Katherine Matthews & Ellie…

  • Radical!

    Peter Mossey, Ellie Harrison, Richard Holme, Tim Morris, Inke Nathke, Kenneth Baxter, Jane Fenton, Matthew Jarron, Matt Graham, Beverley Searle and Neil Paterson….

  • A Real Moving Story: Fifty years of Greater Manchester transport policy On Wheels

    …Like the premise of bus re-regulation and integrated transport policies, cooperation made Bus Regulation The Musical possible. As well as Ellie Harrison, there was Summer Dean’s creative background and her…

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art

    …Conolly, Anne Constantine, Chris Cooper, Hannah Cork, Simon Crampton, Kate Duckham, Adam Dunne, Anne Edwards, Rebecca Fitzsimmonds, Sarah Flewellen, Graham Flisher, Benjamin Flynn, Ryo Fujikura, Victoria Furze, Lisa Gascoigne, Ellie…

  • Have it out with your local MP… on a seven-person bike

    …questionable, but it should probably be noted that a seven-seater bicycle requires a considerable degree of cooperation to function – it’s a truly democratic vehicle (possibly the reason the Tories…