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  • 2016 Writing

    Practising what we Preach

    …since taking up my first permanent lecturing post on April Fools’ Day 2013. By exploiting the core contradiction in my own work-life (that I don’t live in the city where…

  • 2017 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect

    …Effect follows in a tradition of the works by artists I really admire. Artists who resist the commodification of their work and artists who really push the boundaries of what…

  • 2016 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion

    …of certain funding systems and I am working to set up a radical alternative: the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund, which will form the bulk of my workload in…

  • 2017 Media

    The Glasgow Effect interview

    …that anybody appreciates that actually I’m a ‘one woman band’. And I was listening to the phone-in you did earlier about the ‘work-life balance’ I’ve got a lot to say…

  • 2015 Lectures
    Ethics: Extremism & Compromise

    Ethics: Extremism & Compromise

    Ever since her early works, such as Eat 22 (for which she photographed everything she ate for a year), there has been a blurring between Ellie Harrison’s life and work,…

  • 2015 Newsletter

    Work-Life Balance (various projects)

  • 2006 Media

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Logger

    How did you first become interested in recording movements of your everyday life? My first experiment in recording moments from my everyday life took place during a college field trip…

  • 2006 Writing

    Part-time

    …to know each other before beginning work. It quickly transpired that we were following two of the other work pairs, with two of the other interviewees. One was the girl…

  • 2015 Media

    Artworks that Clock Working Life

    …anti-humanist nature of the worker-as-machine ethos of assembly lines. Unpacking the now entrenched notion of the 8-hour working day is Sam Meech’s monumental textile work, “Punchcard Economy.” The 5m x…

  • 2014 Writing

    The Art School Handbook

    …not cause for such optimism. Academic Capitalism In ‘Pedagogic Projects: ‘How do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art?’’ – a chapter in…

  • 2010 Writing

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

    …one. The secret, she taught us, was to have a strategy – to “plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan” (M. Thatcher n.d.); to think…

  • 2007 Media

    This is Ellie Harrison

    …with the possibility of things which occur in the artist’s day-to-day life directly affecting the appearance of her artwork. Most recently, for the exhibition Day-to-Day Data (which I also curated),…

  • 2020 Media

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

    …in lockdown, I started thinking about new ways of working and distributing work, and produced a performance piece (Calvin & Geppetto) as a live broadcast. My work for EAF will…

  • 2022 Media

    Railways: Back on track?

    …just want redundancy threats withdrawn – he’s after ‘lower working hours, less working time, more holiday, a better work-life balance’ for his members. ‘If there’s going to be a change…

  • 2022 Media

    Mobility: An Interview with Ellie Harrison

    …the globalised lives we’re encouraged to live out online, especially as workers in the knowledge economy, living: “transient, itinerant and opportunistic lifestyles, chasing work around the world” (p.128). Through meticulously…

  • 2011 Media

    Workers are Not Alone

    …people working in isolated environments without a social network or workplace solidarity. “For them, there are no employee benefits like sick pay, holiday pay or anyone to regulate working hours….

  • 2017 Media

    New money: Do local currencies actually work?

    …mutual credit network called Bristol Prospects. Through this network, businesses in Bristol can exchange credit in the form of loans that are neutralised within the network, helping one another to…

  • 2011 Writing

    A Good Climate for Business

    …freelance lifestyle that, by creating a social working environment and enforcing a ‘normal working day’, the Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed was attempting to challenge. Not only had my lack of…

  • 2020 Media

    Welcome to the 15-minute city

    …life. Workers want to work in places where land values are high, and live in a place where land value is cheaper. That needs to be factored in; workers will…

  • 2013 Writing

    Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed

    “The meaning of life is work”. That was the world according to my grandpa Goronwy Daniel. Although I didn’t get to know him as well as I would have liked…

  • 2014 Media

    Spear vs. Scissors: Art Held Captive by Budget Cuts

    …with Simon Sheikh in Russian. Unfortunately the interview was never published in English โ†ฉ 5. ‘The Paradox of Art and Work: An Irritating Note’ in Work, Work, Work: A Reader…

  • 2015 Media

    After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison

    …Working Life exhibit. I interviewed Ellie to learn how her former life as a data collector connects to her contemporary art practice. Stephen Fortune: Your Timelines work dates from when…

  • 2012 Media

    Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby

    …as a source material for your work, do you draw a line between your work and your real life? I’ve always battled with the with the life / work balance….

  • 2017 Media

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

    …– collective targeted refusals to work with or for new conservative organisations would mean that same work could be used to grow and bolster another sector, a truly egalitarian and…

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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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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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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

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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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3 months ago
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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

6 months ago
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Published today! Check out The Artists' Bond's 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
artistsbond.co.uk/14artistsbondreport2024.pdf
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This ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐Ÿฒ ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ, ๐Ÿณ๐—ฝ๐—บ! ๐Ÿ“ฃ Don't miss our FREE Cultivating Community Activism: Learning from Cathy McCormackโ€™s โ€˜The Wee Yellow Butterflyโ€™ event as part of Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ Listen to my interview on Sunny Govan to find out more! @followers tune in from 1:04:09 ๐Ÿ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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