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

    On 4 November 2019, Luath Press published Harrison’s first book. Inspired by her 2016 ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect – for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – the book provides the complete context for her thinking and action. (Word count: 119,000)

  • Performance / Events

    General Election Drinking Game

    An endurance performance devised by Harrison to coincide with the 2010 UK general election. Four ‘players’ represented the main political parties – each attempting to drink one shot of lager for every seat in parliament their party won, live as the results came in throughout the night.
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  • Lectures

    Hedonism vs. Asceticism: A control freak’s guide to the MFA

    A lecture by Harrison as part of the Master of Fine Art (MFA) screening programme at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Detailing her experience of studying on the MFA course at Glasgow School of Art from 2008 – 2010, the lecture offers an insight into how she set about organising both her time and the contents of her mind, and explores her tempestuous relationships with ‘work’ and ‘play’.

  • Installations
    Daily Data Display Room installed at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary, London Art in 2006

    Daily Data Display Room

    For the duration of the Day-to-Day Data exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art in London, Ellie collected information about 10 elements of her everyday routine. Each morning the results from the previous day were emailed to the gallery and used to reconfigure and adjust the 10 different objects comprising the installation. Over the course of the exhibition, the display aimed to test and visualise an experiment as to whether there was a correlation between different elements of this information.

  • Installations
    Daily Data Display Wall installed at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham in 2005

    Daily Data Display Wall

    For the duration of the Day-to-Day Data exhibition in Nottingham and Portsmouth, Harrison collected data about 20 different elements of her daily life onto Daily Data Log sheets. Each morning the Log Sheet results were emailed to the gallery and used to reconfigure the 20 different items in the installation, so that it took on a slightly different appearance each day of the exhibition.

  • Installations
    The Monthly Sculptures installed at Goldsmiths College, London in 2003

    The Monthly Sculptures Determined by the Daily Quantification Records

    Throughout 2003, Harrison also collected data about 14 different elements of her everyday life onto Daily Quantification Records. Each month this data was converted into a set of averages, which was then applied to a set of scales and systems to output the specifications for a monthly sculpture. The first six months’ worth of sculptures was installed at the 2003 Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show.

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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 2020-21, 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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It was a great honour to give evidence to Scotland's Climate Assembly this weekend on behalf of Get Glasgow Moving. My presentation outlined the ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes’ to our public transport system necessary before 2030 to address the climate emergency 🌍 ... See MoreSee Less

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Land travel - Ellie Harrison - SCA Weekend 3

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Here's a little project I've been working on this year during lockdown - compiling a comprehensive Bibliography for my book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint', which was published by Luath Press in November 2019 📚🤓 The book itself has Endnotes, but no Bibliography, so I thought it would useful to draw together all the resources referenced in one alphabetical list, including links to those available online. ... See MoreSee Less

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

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Fancy a bit of holiday reading? 🎄 My book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' is on sale direct from publishers Luath Press 📕📙📒📗📘 Order by 15th December to receive in time for Christmas 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect — Luath Press

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Terrific book. Very readable and so interesting. All your answers to why things (often not great) happen in Glasgow.

If you care about Glasgow read this book.

I finally finished it! An online comprehensive Bibliography for the Book. I hope it's useful: glasgoweffect.ellieharrison.com/bibliography/

PlayEllie Harrison, Early Warning Signs (2011 - onwards)

It’s great to be part of this lecture series on Artists & Climate Change alongside inspiring organisations Sculpture Placement Group, Ostrero & Creative Carbon Scotland. I'm speaking about my art, activism and awareness raising activities this Thursday 3 December, 7pm ✊ It's free to all Scottish Artists Union members, so come join us! artistsunion.scot/events ... See MoreSee Less

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Brilliant news about the Divest Dundee campaign today! 🤩 Ive been campaigning for more than five years to get my workplace - the University of Dundee - to commit to divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. Today they finally did it! Thanks to People & Planet and to Hannah Feuerstein and all the brilliant students who have helped pile the pressure on!

Brilliant news about the Divest Dundee campaign today! 🤩 I've been campaigning for more than five years to get my workplace - the University of Dundee - to commit to divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. Today they finally did it! Thanks to People & Planet and to Hannah Feuerstein and all the brilliant students who have helped pile the pressure on! ... See MoreSee Less

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Read the university press release here: www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/university-divest-fossil-fuel-companies

Read Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee student Hannah Feuerstein's blog for People & Planet explaining how we won the Divest Dundee campaign! ✊ peopleandplanet.org/blog/2020-11-13/divestment-dundee-how-we-did-it

Read the Friends of the Earth Scotland press release here: foe.scot/press-release/dundee-uni-divests/

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