About
Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). Her work takes a variety of forms: from installations and performance / events, to lectures, live broadcasts & political campaigns.
Using an array of strategies, Harrison investigates, exposes and challenges the absurd consequences of our capitalist system: from over-consumption, inequality and alienation, to privatisation and climate change – and explores the impact free-market forces are having on our society, and our individual day-to-day lives.
As well as making playful, politically-engaged work for galleries and public spaces, Harrison is also the founder and coordinator of the national Bring Back British Rail campaign – which strives to popularise the idea of re-nationalising our public transport system – and is the agent for The Artists’ Bond – a life-long speculative funding scheme for artists, now with 160 members across the UK.
Harrison is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has also written several critiques of higher education.
Harrison (b. London 1979) studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmiths College and Glasgow School of Art. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award for her installation A Brief History of Privatisation (presented in collaboration with comedian Josie Long) and, for the 2014 Climate Week Awards for her life-long project Early Warning Signs. Her referendum-themed installation After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess? formed part of the 2014 Generation survey show of contemporary art in Scotland and, in 2015, she was named one of Dazed Digital’s “top ten artists at the Venice Biennale” for her piece Life Raft, as part of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf.
In 2016, Harrison slashed her own carbon footprint for transport to zero and made headlines with her ‘controversial’ project The Glasgow Effect, for which she refused to leave Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – an action Scottish Rapper Darren McGarvey famously described as a “poverty safari“. Her first book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was inspired by the 2016 project and published by Luath Press in November 2019. Since the book’s launch, Harrison has spoken at several literary festivals including Edinburgh International Book Festival and AyeWrite, and now features in the Scottish Book Trust’s Live Literature author directory. In autumn 2021, a new and updated edition of the book was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Harrison’s work features in two public collections in London: her 2002 project Eat 22 – for which she photographed everything she ate for a year – is on permanent display at the Wellcome Collection, and her Vending Machine – programmed to gift out free crisps when news relating to the recession makes the headlines – is installed at the Open Data Institute.
She is a member of the Scottish Artists Union and the University & College Union, and is a studio holder at Wasps Hanson Street Studios.
- 2017 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education, (pass), University of Dundee
- 2010 Master of Fine Art, (distinction), Glasgow School of Art
- 2003 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, (pass), Goldsmiths College, London
- 2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art, (first class honours), Nottingham Trent University
- 1998 BTEC Foundation Art & Design, (distinction), West Thames College, London
- 2024 Less is More, Plenty? festival, The Barn, Banchory
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside), The Black-E, Liverpool
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde), Platform, Glasgow
- 2022 Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside), Bluecoat, Liverpool
- 2022 Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- 2020 Tonnes of carbon produced by the personal transportation of a ‘professional artist’, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh
- 2019 Bus Regulation: The Musical (Greater Manchester), Get Together & Get Things Done, Manchester Art Gallery
- 2018 Stored Sculpture Inventory, Sculpture Showroom, Glasgow International
- 2018 The Elephant in the Room, Panic! It's an Arts Emergency, Create London
- 2018 Conduct, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Arts
- 2018 😹 LMAO, Open Data Institute, London
- 2017 Slow Violence, Art & Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire
- 2017 Rising, Art Licks Weekend, London
- 2017 Eat Me, Trapholt, Kolding (Denmark)
- 2017 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, York Art Gallery
- 2017 Alles zur Zeit, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)
- 2017 Show Me the Money!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (Denmark)
- 2016 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, QUAD, Derby
- 2016 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
- 2015 Big Bang Data, Somerset House, London
- 2015 Laboro Ergo Sum, amberPlatform, Istanbul (Turkey)
- 2015 For Love or Money, Still Rolling With The Times, Transmission, Glasgow
- 2015 Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund, Harnessing the Wind, Beaconsfield, London
- 2015 This Is What Democracy Looks Like!, The Yard Theatre, London
- 2015 There’s nothing More Unequal than Equality amongst Unequals, Island: Adaptation I & II, g39, Cardiff
- 2015 The Art of Self-Tracking, QS15 Exposition, San Francisco (USA)
- 2015 Poetics & Politics of Data, HeK, Basel (Switzerland)
- 2015 Life Raft, Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, Venice Biennale (Italy)
- 2015 High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk, Ort Gallery, Birmingham
- 2015 Dark Days, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- 2015 Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, HKW, Berlin (Germany)
- 2014 The Global Race, Part of the Game, nGbK, Berlin (Germany)
- 2014 After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess?, Counterpoint, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
- 2014 Playword, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton
- 2014 Anti-Capitalist Aerobics, Facing Extinction, University for the Creative Arts
- 2014 Progress Report, Vision & Values, Transmission, Glasgow
- 2014 Art Lending Library, Crown Street Gallery, Darlington
- 2014 Transition Community of One, Glasgow Open House Arts Festival
- 2014 Ellie & Oliver’s Long Distance Relationship, Glasgow Open House
- 2014 Definite Motion, Generator, Dundee
- 2014 Attempt at an Inventory…, The Hospital for Dazed Art, The Briggait, Glasgow
- 2013 Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, FACT, Liverpool
- 2013 Anti-Capitalist Aerobics, Ways of Seeing Climate Change, University of Manchester
- 2013 The Other Forecast, Quays Culture, Salford
- 2013 21 Revolutions, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
- 2013 Spaceship Unbound, Castlefield, Manchester
- 2013 Money after Money, Eye of Gyre, Tokyo (Japan)
- 2013 Thrift Radiates Happiness, Birmingham Municipal Bank, Birmingham
- 2012 Data as Culture, Open Data Institute, London
- 2012 Friendship Festival, Glasgay! Glasgow
- 2012 The Redistribution of Wealth, Late at Tate Britain, London
- 2012 21 Revolutions, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- 2012 Ellie & Oliver Show, Edinburgh Art Festival
- 2012 Experimenting With Clouds, Rua Red, Dublin (Ireland)
- 2012 Ellie & Oliver Show, Glasgow International
- 2012 Art Lending Library, Glasgow International
- 2011 Relentless Innovation, The List Hot 100 Party, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
- 2011 Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
- 2011 Best of the Rest, I'll Look Forward to It, Collective, Edinburgh
- 2011 Desk Chair Disco, Wunderbar, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed, Wunderbar, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Market Forces, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- 2011 Fair Game, Vault Art Fair, Glasgow
- 2011 Ha Ha Road, QUAD, Derby
- 2011 Left to My Own Devices, Inspace, Edinburgh
- 2011 Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed, Two Degrees, Artsadmin, London
- 2011 Early Warning Signs, Artsadmin, London
- 2011 Personal Political Broadcast, Bloc, Wales
- 2011 Trajector Art Fair, Brussels (Belgium)
- 2011 UK Weather Report, SP Weather Station, Center for Book Arts, New York (USA)
- 2011 A Brief History of Privatisation, Watermans, London
- 2011 Re-generation, Plato Sanat, Istanbul (Turkey)
- 2010 Transmission: Glasgow to London, Up Periscope, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- 2010 The History of Financial Crises, Market Gallery, Glasgow
- 2010 Definite Article, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Germany)
- 2010 The History of Revolution: Ellie Harrison’s Fireworks Display, Master of Fine Art Degree Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
- 2010 Press Release, Master of Fine Art Degree Show, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- 2010 General Election Drinking Game, Star & Shadow, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2010 Vending Machine, Glasgow Film Theatre
- 2010 Vending Machine, Abandon Normal Devices, Lancaster
- 2009 The Peckham Experiment, Space Station Sixty-Five, London
- 2009 Desk Chair Parade, Castlefield, Manchester
- 2009 Toytown, Master of Fine Art Interim Show, Newbery Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
- 2009 Capitalyst, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
- 2009 Vending Machine, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
- 2009 Transfers & Actions, Mejan Labs, Stockholm (Sweden)
- 2009 It’s a Mess and Most Probably Irreversible, Five Storey Projects, London
- 2008 A Process of Living, City Gallery, Leicester
- 2007 Angel Row Jukebox, Closing Party, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
- 2007 I’ve Been Watching You, Filmhuis Den Haag (Netherlands)
- 2007 Olympic Ring Doughnut Eating Contest, Burgess Park, London
- 2007 Notts on Tour, Documenta 12, Kassel (Germany)
- 2007 File Festival, Galeria de Arte do Sesi, São Paulo (Brazil)
- 2007 I’ve Been Watching You, Showroom, Sheffield
- 2007 Medicine Now, Wellcome Collection, London
- 2007 I’ve Been Watching You, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2007 Hen Weekend, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
- 2007 Ariston, New Art Birmingham
- 2007 OEen Group Show, Israels Plads, Copenhagen (Denmark)
- 2006 Bouncy Boxing Championships, NAN-NANA New Adventures in Networking, Nottingham
- 2006 Daily Data Display Room, Day-to-Day Data, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
- 2005 File Festival, Galeria de Arte do Sesi, São Paulo (Brazil)
- 2005 Total GHAOS, Nottingham
- 2005 The Quotidian Factor, ARC, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
- 2005 Day-to-Day Data, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
- 2005 Day-to-Day Data, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
- 2005 Trampoline, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2005 Gold Card Adventures, Art on the Underground, London
- 2004 Trampoline, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2004 The End is the Beginning is the End, Colony, Birmingham
- 2004 Sneezes 2003, You Are Here Festival, Wallner Gallery, Nottingham
- 2004 The Reactor Red Rooms Razzamatazz, You Are Here Festival, Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
- 2004 Bath Time, For the Time Being: A Promise of Progress, Victoria Baths, Manchester
- 2004 Horse Drawn GHAOS, Q Arts, Derby
- 2004 Relay: Homage to the Olympic Games, Q Arts, Derby
- 2004 The Reactor Party is for You, Comrade, Waygood, Newcastle
- 2004 Reactor Barge Inn, LIFT, Bargehouse, London
- 2004 Re: Thinking: Time, Peterborough Digital Arts
- 2004 Horse Drawn GHAOS, Seen, Leicester
- 2004 GHAOS ZX, Screenplay, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2004 Food TV, The Awning Project, Bristol
- 2003 GHAOS Starts Here!, NOW Festival, Nottingham
- 2003 The Monthly Sculptures Determined by the Daily Quantification Records, Postgraduate Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London
- 2003 Treat Yourself, Science Museum, London
- 2003 Digi-Monde, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond
- 2002 Feminale, Cologne (Germany)
- 2002 Eat 22, 291 Gallery, London
- 2002 Minus 20, Gasworks, London
- 2001 eXpo: Festival of Emerging Artists, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2001 Potential Generator, BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Nottingham Trent University
Full archive of Exhibitions / Events →
- 2023 Centre for Cities Report Launch, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy, Stephen Fry Public Engagement Awards, University of Dundee
- 2022 Art, activism and the fight for better buses in Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, AoMO2022, Liverpool
- 2022 Creative Action, Close of Play, Glasgow School of Art
- 2021 The Glasgow Effect online discussion, Resurgence Book Club
- 2021 Demand Better Public Transport Rally, George Square, Glasgow
- 2021 The Glasgow Effect – Book Launch and Q&A, Innovate4Cities, UN Habitat
- 2021 Bike & Talk around Glasgow with artist Ellie Harrison, Glasgow Open House Arts Festival
- 2021 Britain’s Bus Crisis: Privatisation, Poverty & Human Rights, Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, New York University
- 2021 Walk & Talk with artist Ellie Harrison, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- 2021 Environmental Sustainability in Policy & Programming, Cultural Adaptations, Creative Carbon Scotland
- 2021 How should Scotland change how it travels?, Scotland’s Climate Assembly
- 2020 Artists & Climate Change: Awareness, Scottish Artists Union
- 2020 Ellie Harrison: Bunker Talks, Manchester School of Art
- 2020 Dark Days, Academy of Urbanism, Glasgow School of Art
- 2020 Performing Solidarity – Ethics and Responsibility, Middlesex University
- 2020 Artist Talk: Ellie Harrison, Castlefield, Manchester
- 2020 Toxic Inequalities in Glasgow & Beyond – Ellie Harrison & Mary O’Hara, AyeWrite, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
- 2020 Each for Equal: International Women’s Day, Trade Union Education Centre, City of Glasgow College
- 2020 Sonnet Youth, Edinburgh, Stirling & Glasgow
- 2019 In Conversation with artist Ellie Harrison, Outwith Agency, Glasgow
- 2019 Pecha Kucha, Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee
- 2019 Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- 2019 The Glasgow Effect: Social Mobility in Scotland – Ellie Harrison & Kenneth Calman, ScotlandsFest, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 2019 A Tale of Two Cities – Ellie Harrison & Jemma Neville, Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 2019 World-class Transport for Glasgow, Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community & Citizen Engagement Committee, Glasgow City Council
- 2018 The Future of Public Transport, We Own It conference, London
- 2018 Roundtable Discussion on Transport Bill, Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
- 2018 Art & Energy, Free Exchange, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire
- 2018 Art, Activism & the Absurdities of Economic Growth, TEDx Southampton
- 2017 Think Outside the Circle, Transform Scotland AGM, Glasgow City Chambers
- 2017 Energising Culture, Julie's Bicycle, Barbican, London
- 2017 In Conversation with Kathrin Böhm, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton
- 2017 The Glasgow Effect, Glasgow Film Theatre
- 2016 People Powered Money, Glasgow City Chambers
- 2016 Scottish Artists Union AGM, South Block, Glasgow
- 2016 Get Glasgow Moving, Renfield St. Stephen's, Glasgow
- 2016 What can the world learn from radical approaches to socially engaged art-making?, ITAC3, Edinburgh
- 2016 The RRAAF Founding Symposium, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- 2016 White Wood Forum, Deveron Projects, Huntly
- 2016 In Conversation with Doug Fishbone, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
- 2016 Data Dystopia, Somerset House, London
- 2016 The Glasgow Effect, Cross-Party Group on Culture, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
- 2016 Think Global, Act Local!, CECHR Annual Symposium, University of Dundee
- 2016 The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion, Imagination, Glad Cafe, Glasgow
- 2015 The RRAAF Report Launch Event, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- 2015 The RRAAF Debate, Beaconsfield, London
- 2015 Sustainability in Practice, Culture & Sustainability, Julie's Bicycle, The Tetley, Leeds
- 2015 Data Traces, Academy of Art & Design FHNW, Basel (Switzerland)
- 2015 Ethics: Extremism & Compromise, Camden Arts Centre, London
- 2015 Glasgow’s Green: Imagining a Sustainable City, Tramway, Glasgow
- 2015 Dark Days, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- 2015 Transmediale: Capture All, HKW, Berlin (Germany)
- 2014 Artist’s Talk, Brandts 13, Odense (Denmark)
- 2014 Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Funen Art Academy, Odense (Denmark)
- 2014 Create & Sustain, Glasgow School of Art
- 2014 In conversation with Ewa Jasiewicz, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
- 2014 Some People Think I’m Bonkers, LIFT, The Yard Theatre, London
- 2014 Practices in Motion, Dundee Contemporary Arts
- 2014 Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, Royal College of Art, London
- 2014 Say No to Tesco, Petitions Committee, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
- 2014 Green Tease, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- 2013 The Future of Our Railways, Green Party Conference, Brighton
- 2013 Say No To Tesco: Stop Supermarket Expansion on our Local High Streets, Petitions Committee, Glasgow City Council
- 2013 Lost Lines, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
- 2013 For the Love of It, Artquest, London
- 2013 REcreative, South London Gallery, London
- 2013 Data as Culture, Open Data Institute, London
- 2012 The Lush Prize, Shoreditch, London
- 2012 National Museum of Roller Derby, Glasgow Women's Library
- 2012 What If… Artists Redesigned Economics?, Royal College of Art, London
- 2012 21 Revolutions, Glasgow Women's Library
- 2012 In conversation with Richard DeDomenici, Buzzcut, Glasgow
- 2012 The Story, Conway Hall, London
- 2011 Relentless Innovation, The List Hot 100 Party, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
- 2011 Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed, Wunderbar, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Pecha Kucha, Inspace, Edinburgh
- 2011 Trajectories, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2011 Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed, Artsadmin, London
- 2011 Trajectories, Inspace, Edinburgh
- 2011 Trajectories Launch, Inspace, Edinburgh
- 2011 How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with our Impending Doom, Edinburgh College of Art
- 2011 Pecha Kucha, Glasgow School of Art
- 2010 Upgrade, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
- 2010 Art & The Economy, Market Gallery, Glasgow
- 2010 Artist’s Talk, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2010 Recessional Aesthetics, James Taylor Gallery, London
- 2010 In Production, Nottingham Contemporary
- 2010 One Minute Manifesto, AHM Symposium, University of Glasgow
- 2010 Artist’s Talk, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)
- 2010 Artist’s Talk, Swinburne University, Melbourne (Australia)
- 2010 Artists’ Lottery Syndicate, Artsadmin, London
- 2010 Trajectories, Apple Store, Glasgow
- 2010 Hedonism vs. Asceticism: A control freak’s guide to the MFA, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- 2009 This is… Ellie Harrison, Central Station launch, Sloans, Glasgow
- 2009 Data Visualisation, Ffotogallery, Turner House, Penarth
- 2009 The Centre is Here, Chapter, Cardiff
- 2009 In conversation with Sally O’Reilly, Space, London
- 2009 Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector, Plymouth College of Art
- 2008 Record, Re-enact, Act, LCB Depot, Leicester
- 2008 Artist’s Talk, Plymouth College of Art
- 2007 Artist’s Talk, University of Derby
- 2007 Hen Weekend, ARC, Modern Art Oxford
- 2007 Hen Weekend, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
- 2007 The Live Lecture, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2006 Artist’s Talk, University of Leeds
- 2006 Critical Meet, LCB Depot, Leicester
- 2006 Accelerator, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
- 2006 Day-to-Day Data Symposium, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- 2005 Day-to-Day Data, Arts Council England, Nottingham
- 2005 Day-to-Day Data, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
- 2005 Artist’s Talk, University of Lincoln
- 2003 LabCulture Symposium, Bridport
- 2002 LabCulture, Watershed, Bristol
Full archive of Lectures / Talks →
- 2024 Too far to cycle?, Edinburgh Napier University
- 2024 A Quiet Revolution in Public Transport, Scottish Left Review (Issue 138 p.8-9)
- 2023 The National’s book recommendations, Sunday National (p.11)
- 2023 Bus Regulation in Greater Manchester, Channel 4 News
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical feature, Politics North West, BBC One
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical interview, Helen Jones, BBC Radio Merseyside
- 2023 Regulate! Ellie Harrison interview by Lynsey Hanley, Tribune (Issue 18 p.92-94)
- 2023 Ellie Harrison’s glorious piece of agit-prop theatre, The Herald (p.3)
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical Review, FringeReview Scotland
- 2023 Bus Regulation: The Musical at Platform Review, The Scotsman (p.33)
- 2023 Artist seizes platform to send clear messages on our buses, The National (p.16)
- 2023 Stephen Fry lauds Dundee Uni at Awards, The Courier (p.1-3)
- 2022 Busverkehr in Großbritannien „Ein Desaster“, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandradio (Germany)
- 2022 Fusing art and activism, Culture, Climate & Environmental Responsibility, Julie's Bicycle
- 2022 Celebrating community energy successes, Local Energy Scotland
- 2022 Mobility: An Interview with Ellie Harrison, Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline
- 2022 Bus Regulation: The Musical feature, Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland
- 2022 Bus Regulation: The Musical feature, Reporting Scotland, BBC One
- 2022 Policy is worth making a song and dance about, The National (p.17)
- 2022 Bus Regulation: The Musical preview, That's TV Scotland
- 2022 Musical will tell story of city’s bus network, Glasgow Times
- 2022 Glasgow premiere of Bus Regulation: The Musical debuts this weekend, The National
- 2022 Why I… fight for better buses, New Internationalist (p.6)
- 2022 Grappling with The Glasgow Effect: A critical artistic pedagogy to explode destructive success fantasies, Art & the Public Sphere (p.37-53)
- 2022 The battle for our buses, Scottish Left Review (Issue 128 p.22)
- 2022 Year-long projects with Ellie Harrison, Neil Scott, Substack
- 2022 Wit Ye Readin? Ellie Harrison – The Glasgow Effect, Colour Ways
- 2021 Cop Out 26, Power Films
- 2021 Why Glasgow needs integrated ticketing, STV News
- 2021 COP26 discussion with Ellie Harrison, Connie McLaughlin, BBC Radio Scotland
- 2021 Ellie Harrison publishes a new edition of The Glasgow Effect for COP26, The Herald
- 2021 Setting the Stage for Better Public Transport, Resurgence & The Ecologist (p.34-36)
- 2021 The Glasgow Effect, Resurgence & The Ecologist (p.28)
- 2021 People of Glasgow rise to meet green challenge, The Times (p.4-5)
- 2021 Is Glasgow ready for COP26?, STV News
- 2021 How to improve Scotland’s public transport system, The National
- 2021 Great British Railways Debate, Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2
- 2021 Our public transport must be a joy to use, The Sunday Post
- 2021 The best Glasgow books to read this World Book Day, Glasgow Times
- 2020 The City Adapts, Embassy of Mobility, World Design Embassies (Netherlands)
- 2020 Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains, Scottish Left Review (Issue 119 p.8)
- 2020 Review: Edinburgh Art Festival 2020, Fleming Collection
- 2020 Artists to present work outdoors and online to mark dates of cancelled Edinburgh Art Festival, The Scotsman
- 2020 Welcome to the 15-minute city, Financial Times
- 2020 The Glasgow Effect – Book Review, Art Monthly (Issue 435 p.43)
- 2020 The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint, Social & Cultural Geography, Taylor & Francis Online
- 2019 The Glasgow Effect interview, Jackie Brambles, BBC Radio Scotland
- 2019 Public Transport Discussion, The Nine, BBC Scotland
- 2019 You can’t take the girl out of Glasgow, The Herald (Scottish Life p.6-9)
- 2019 Shut M8 to let Glasgow breathe, says artist, The Sunday Times (p.5)
- 2019 Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)
- 2019 What Bus Regulation: The Musical can tell us about the follies of privatisation, CityMetric
- 2019 Bus Regulation: The Musical feature, You & Yours, BBC Radio 4
- 2019 A Real Moving Story: Fifty years of Greater Manchester transport policy On Wheels, East of the M60
- 2019 Bus Regulation: The Musical preview, North West Tonight, BBC One
- 2019 Bus Regulation: The Musical preview, North West Today, BBC One
- 2019 Bus regulation proves just the ticket for a musical in Manchester, The Guardian (p.26)
- 2019 Glasgow Effect artist Ellie Harrison launches book in response to ‘social media ****storm’, The Scotsman
- 2018 Should we bring back British Rail?, Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2
- 2018 Publicly Funded Art, The Work of Art, National Galleries of Scotland
- 2018 Data as Culture: Humour and absurdity stalk the internet, New Scientist
- 2017 The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression, e-flux
- 2017 Rebellious Concepts, Sleek (Issue 53 p.78-82) (Germany)
- 2017 Q&A with Leisure Land Golf artist Ellie Harrison, Art Fund
- 2017 Ellie Harrison – ‘The Glasgow Effect was a boycott of the oil industry, of privatised public transport’, The List
- 2017 The Glasgow Effect, Kiltr
- 2017 The timely return of activism, The Herald (The Arts p.6)
- 2017 Artist Ellie Harrison says she has been painted as an “ogre”, The Courier (p.8)
- 2017 Glasgow Effect artist ‘used anger’ to fuel work, BBC News, Glasgow & West Scotland
- 2017 The Glasgow Effect interview, Stephen Jardine, BBC Radio Scotland
- 2017 Heads Up, The Skinny (p.8)
- 2016 The 2016 Hot 100, The List (p.31)
- 2016 Dundee lecturer Ellie finding Glasgow Effect taking its toll, The Courier (p.19)
- 2016 Rail re-nationalisation debate, Today, BBC Radio 4
- 2016 Loving the Inbox: the Artist as Bureaucrat, ArtReview Asia (p.68-71)
- 2016 ‘Glasgow Effect’ artist Ellie Harrison reveals first work of project, The Herald (p.10)
- 2016 Stay or Glasgow?, Art Monthly (Issue 393 p.11)
- 2016 Long Story Short – The Glasgow Effect, The Social, BBC Scotland
- 2016 The ‘Glasgow Effect’ is not in our control, The National (p.14-15)
- 2016 Ellie Harrison Makes Me Deeply Ashamed, AutonomyScotland
- 2016 The chips and the fury, Product Magazine
- 2016 Cos I Can, Bella Caledonia
- 2016 Artists need to stick their necks out, CommonSpace
- 2016 Dear Creative Scotland: Ellie Harrison is a Class Act, Bella Caledonia
- 2016 Outraged over a £15,000 Glasgow art project? Look at the bigger picture, The Guardian
- 2016 The Glasgow Effect debate, Scotland 2016, BBC Two
- 2016 Artist’s £15,000 grant to stay in Glasgow for a year is money well spent, The Guardian
- 2016 [Insert outraged headline about The Glasgow Effect funding shocker], The List
- 2015 Wind-Powered Art, 10:10 UK
- 2015 Harnessing the Wind, Art Monthly (Issue 391 p.33)
- 2015 Let a Public Train take the Strain, The Guardian (p.33)
- 2015 Politicians Quizzed on Quirky Bike Ride, Hackney Gazette (p.3)
- 2015 Have it out with your local MP… on a seven-person bike, Time Out London
- 2015 Ellie Harrison on ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like!’, The Yard Theatre
- 2015 Dead Reckoning: Ellie Harrison & The Art of Austerity, Furtherfield
- 2015 High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk, This is Tomorrow
- 2015 The top artists at this year’s Venice Biennale, Dazed Digital
- 2015 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, BBC News at Six, BBC One
- 2015 City of the Dead, The Sunday Mercury (p.21)
- 2015 High Street Casualties interview, BBC Radio WM
- 2015 Artworks that Clock Working Life, Hyperallergic
- 2015 Dark Days with Ellie Harrison, Furtherfield
- 2015 After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison, AVANT
- 2015 Dark Days interview, BBC Radio Scotland
- 2015 A Night at the Museum with a Difference, Evening Times (p.16-17)
- 2015 Early Warning Signs interview, BBC Radio Northampton
- 2015 RT News at Six, RT UK
- 2014 Interview: Ellie Harrison, Generation
- 2014 A Most Unusual Referendum Results Party, The Student Newspaper (p.19)
- 2014 The Morning After the Revolution, Summerhall TV
- 2014 Picking up the Pieces after the Vote, The Scotsman TV
- 2014 Independence will lead to Artistic ‘Desecration’, The Spectator (p.56)
- 2014 Counterpoint, Scotland on Sunday
- 2014 L’Ecosse Répète son Indépendance sur les Planches, Le Monde (France) (p.12)
- 2014 Getting Straight to the Point, The Herald (The Arts p.6)
- 2014 After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess?, Summerhall TV
- 2014 Indyref Confetti Cannon to go on Display at Edinburgh Art Festival, The Herald (p.10)
- 2014 Confetti Cannon Primed to Explode, or Maybe Not, The Times (p.16)
- 2014 Facing Extinction, Resonance FM (02:38-10:20)
- 2014 Eat 22: Object of the Month (interview with Ellie Harrison), Wellcome Collection
- 2014 Going Underground, RT UK
- 2013 Climate Change: “Artists can energise people to act”, a-n website
- 2013 Artists speak about ‘value’ at For the love of it, a-n website
- 2013 ‘Open Data’ Brings Potential and Perils for Government, Wall Street Journal TV
- 2012 Notes towards Becoming a Good Citizen, New Escapologist (Issue 8 p.17-21)
- 2012 Acts of Legacy, a-n website
- 2012 She Shelves Sanctuary, Scotland on Sunday (The Week p.8-9)
- 2012 National Museum of Roller Derby, Lead Jammer (Issue 3 p.14)
- 2012 Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby, London Rockin' Rollers
- 2012 British Transportation Systems in Turmoil, Double Standards, Press TV
- 2012 Rail Fares, Boulton & Co, Sky News
- 2012 Ellie & Oliver Show, Summerhall TV
- 2012 On the Town, ArtReview (Issue 60 p.154)
- 2012 How to Celebrate an Art Festival, a-n website
- 2012 Artist Fund Thyself, Art Monthly (Issue 355 p.16)
- 2012 Ellie & Oliver Show, Central Station
- 2012 FareFail Fails the Fairness Test, Guido Fawkes
- 2011 The Hot 100: the definitive list of Scottish creative talent, The List (p.24-25)
- 2011 Workers are Not Alone, The Journal (p.10)
- 2011 Ellie Harrison & Josie Long, Wunderbar Radio
- 2011 Market Forces, Wunderbar website
- 2011 Nice to Meet You, Independent on Sunday (The Pink List p.4)
- 2011 The Shortlist, Dazed & Confused (p.122-125)
- 2011 DIY Lottery Art Funding, Art Monthly (Issue 350 p.21)
- 2011 Vault Art Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday (Review p.4)
- 2011 Fair Exchange, The List (p.68-69)
- 2011 Work-a-thon interview, This is Tomorrow
- 2011 In Conversation: Two Degrees Festival curator Mark Godber and artist Ellie Harrison, Jotta
- 2011 A Brief History of Privatisation, a-n Magazine (p.9)
- 2011 Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed, a-n Magazine (p.27)
- 2011 Ellie Harrison Profile, Art Monthly (Issue 346 p.16-17)
- 2010 The Beauty of Diagrams, BBC Four (Episode 4)
- 2010 Funding: One Alternative, Art Monthly (Issue 342 p.18)
- 2010 The Finished Article, Scotland on Sunday (Review p.7)
- 2010 Artists in a bid for success with different type of draw, The Herald (p.11)
- 2010 Party Politics: Election Art, The Guardian (p.17)
- 2010 The Bubble, BBC Two
- 2009 Summer Reading, Art Monthly (Issue 328 p.40)
- 2009 Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector, a-n Magazine (p.19)
- 2008 Trans-Atlantic Challenge interview, BBC Radio Nottingham
- 2008 Two Years of Tea Blog, BBC Nottingham
- 2008 Tea Blog interview, BBC Radio Nottingham
- 2007 Angel Row Closing Party, Leftlion
- 2007 Notts on Tour, a-n website
- 2007 State of the arts, Time Out London (p.16)
- 2007 I’ve Been Watching You, East Midlands Today, BBC One
- 2007 New Stars on Broadway, Metro (p.23)
- 2006 Day-to-Day Data, Time Out London (p.38)
- 2006 Insignificance, Art Monthly (Issue 295 p.7-10)
- 2006 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Logger, Cracked Actor
- 2005 Many Conceptual Artists Have an Unholy Delight in Statistics, The Times (T2 p.16)
- 2005 Review: Day-to-Day Data, Metro (p.21)
- 2005 Under the Data, the Stars, Rhizome
- 2005 Exhibition: Day-to-Day Data, The Guardian (The Guide p.37)
- 2005 Out of the Ordinary, Metro (p.21)
- 2005 Just the Facts…, Nottingham Evening Post (Essential Guide p.25)
- 2005 Event: Day-to-Day Data, BBC Nottingham
- 2005 Underground Movement, a-n Magazine (p.21)
- 2004 Recording Artist, Nottingham Evening Post (Weekend p.4)
- 2003 A Day in the Life, The Washington Times (USA) (p.3)
- 2002 Eat Me!, The Guardian (Online p.6)
- 2002 Event: Eat 22, The Guardian (The Guide p.40)
- 2002 Diet Hard, The Face (p.64)
- 2002 Little Gems, The Guardian
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- 2021 The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint (Second Edition), Luath Press ISBN 978-1910022795
- 2019 The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint, Luath Press ISBN 978-1912147960
- 2017 Eat Me, Trapholt (Denmark) (p.28 & p.154-155) ISBN 978-8772690216
- 2015 Poetics & Politics of Data, Christoph Merian (Switzerland) (p.116-121) ISBN 978-3856166816
- 2015 Playing for Time, Oberon Books (p.177-179 & p.205-206) ISBN 978-1783191864
- 2014 Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland Guide, National Galleries of Scotland & Glasgow Life (p.195) ISBN 978-1906270711
- 2014 21 Revolutions, Freight Books (p.149) ISBN 978-1908754448
- 2013 Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, Liverpool University Press & FACT (p.120-123) ISBN 978-1846319662
- 2013 The Art of Life: Understanding How Participation in Arts & Culture Can Affect Our Values, Mission Models Money & Common Cause (p.19-21)
- 2013 Money after Money, マック (Japan) (p.13-14) ISBN 978-4907367008
- 2012 The New Home Front II, Green Party of England & Wales (p.41-42)
- 2012 A Guide for the Incurably Curious, Wellcome Collection (p.76-77) ISBN 978-0957028517
- 2010 This is Central Station, Central Station (p.148-149)
- 2009 Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector, Plymouth College of Art Press (monograph) ISBN 978-0955749131
- 2007 Platform for Art: Art on the Underground, Black Dog Publishing (p.91) ISBN 978-1906155063
- 2007 The Fundamentals of Digital Art, AVA Publishing (p.68-69) ISBN 978-2940373581
- 2007 Part-time, Prime (p.9-11) ISBN 978-0955504709
- 2005 Day-to-Day Data, Angel Row Gallery (p.32-35) ISBN 978-0905634715
- 2003 Treat Yourself: Health Consumers in a Medical Age, Science Museum (p.82) ISBN 978-1841290447
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- 2014 Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Funen Art Academy, Odense (Denmark)
- 2014 Associate Artist (Public Programme), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- 2012 21 Revolutions, Glasgow Women's Library
- 2011 A Good Climate for Business, Artsadmin, London
- 2010 Scratch Cards, Digital Media Labs, Hull School of Art & Design
- 2009 Artist in Residence, Plymouth College of Art
- 2008 Braziers International Artists’ Workshop, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
- 2007 Creative Partnerships, Imperial Avenue Infant School, Leicester
- 2007 I’ve Been Watching You, Broadway, Nottingham
- 2006 Part-time, Prime, Nottingham
- 2004 Bath Time, For the Time Being: A Promise of Progress, Victoria Baths, Manchester
- 2004 Transition, Victoria Baths, Manchester
- 2002 TicTac Typing & Peanut Typing, LabCulture, Watershed, Bristol
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