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  • "a mischievous, doubtful and provocative rabble-rouser"
    - Chris Fite-Wassilak

  • "pretentious agitprop"
    - The Spectator

  • "provocative and amusing"
    - The Herald

  • "popular, radical and subversive... a hard trick to pull off"
    - Gordon Dalton

  • "the absurdity of the proposal... reflects the absurdity of the situation"
    - Art Monthly

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). On 8 January 2017, she presented The Glasgow Effect: A talk by Ellie Harrison at Glasgow Film Theatre. In 2019, she was commissioned to develop Bus Regulation: The Musical for Manchester Art Gallery and her first book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was published by Luath Press. In 2020, her Early Warning Signs are installed at four ‘host venues‘ around the UK and her Vending Machine features in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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I'm really excited to be helping organise Imagine if buses were free - Campaign launch & Conference for our new Free Our City campaign. We've invited speakers from Dunkirk, France and Tallinn, Estonia to tell #Glasgow how great it is living in cities with free public transport 🚶‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚍🚇🚆 Listen up Glasgow City Council, we need to be next! Register to take part here: 👉 freebuses.eventbrite.com ... See MoreSee Less

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Imagine if buses were free... Campaign launch & Conference

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You can watch the live stream of the event here www.facebook.com/FreeOurCityGlasgow/videos/752290398946502

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I did enjoy giving a short talk at The Academy of Urbanism Scotland at The Glasgow School of Art earlier this month 🌞🏭🏢🚴‍♀️🚶‍♀️🌳🏣 We had a great discussion! You can watch online here 👉 ... See MoreSee Less

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‘Bid launched to make public transport in Glasgow free to help economic recovery’. Great coverage of our new Free Our City campaign in today’s HeraldScotland 🚌 Join us for Imagine if buses were free - Campaign launch & Conference online on 19 Sept 2020, 11am 🥳👉 freebuses.eventbrite.com ... See MoreSee Less

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Bid launched to make public transport in Glasgow free to help economic recovery

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It’s the last weekend to see my graph showing my carbon footprint for transport for the last 17 years 🚆✈️🚇🛳🚍🚘 installed at two poster sites in Meadowbank and Calton Road as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 🌞 ellieharrison.com/carbongraph 📷 James Brook

It’s the last weekend to see my graph showing my carbon footprint for transport for the last 17 years 🚆✈️🚇🛳🚍🚘 installed at two poster sites in Meadowbank and Calton Road as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 🌞 ellieharrison.com/carbongraph 📷 James Brook ... See MoreSee Less

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Heres my new graph showing my carbon footprint for transport for the last 17 years 🚆✈️🚇🛳🚍🚘 Now installed at two poster sites in Meadowbank and Calton Road as part of Edinburgh Art Festival until 30 August 2020 🌞 ellieharrison.com/carbongraph

Here's my new graph showing my carbon footprint for transport for the last 17 years 🚆✈️🚇🛳🚍🚘 Now installed at two poster sites in Meadowbank and Calton Road as part of Edinburgh Art Festival until 30 August 2020 🌞 ellieharrison.com/carbongraph ... See MoreSee Less

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