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  • 2024 Exhibition
    Less is More

    Less is More

    ‘Less is More’ is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrison exploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and the relationship between art and activism.
    Exhibition Guide

  • 2024 Media

    Too far to cycle?

    20 May 2024
    Edinburgh Napier University

  • 2023 Media

    The National’s book recommendations

    8 Oct 2023
    Sunday National (p.11)

  • 2022 Media

    Mobility: An Interview with Ellie Harrison

    1 Aug 2022
    Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline

  • 2022 Lecture

    Environment, Art & Feminist Futures

    14 Jun 2022
    Conversations about Art in a time of Environmental Change, Glasgow

  • 2022 Media

    The Glasgow Effect – Book Review

    17 May 2022
    Goodreads

  • 2022 Media

    Grappling with The Glasgow Effect: A critical artistic pedagogy to explode destructive success fantasies

    1 Apr 2022
    Art & the Public Sphere (p.37-53)

  • 2022 Media

    Wit Ye Readin? Ellie Harrison – The Glasgow Effect

    2 Jan 2022
    Colour Ways

  • 2021 Media

    Glasgow: 18 million trees can’t be wrong part II

    27 Dec 2021
    Dr. Klangendum, de Concertzender (Netherlands)

  • 2021 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect online discussion

    15 Dec 2021
    Resurgence Book Club

  • 2021 Lecture

    Bike & Talk around Glasgow with artist Ellie Harrison

    7 Nov 2021
    The Encampment of Eternal Hope, Glasgow

  • 2021 Media

    COP26 discussion with Ellie Harrison

    7 Nov 2021
    Connie McLaughlin, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2021 Media

    Coal, steam, empire and COP26: Glasgow’s emissions story

    6 Nov 2021
    The Herald

  • 2021 Media

    Ellie Harrison publishes a new edition of The Glasgow Effect for COP26

    6 Nov 2021
    The Herald

  • 2021 Lecture

    Climate Change & Inequalities

    4 Nov 2021
    Cycling Scotland Conference

  • 2021 Lecture

    ACT: Environment & Climate

    2 Nov 2021
    The Deep End, Glasgow

  • 2021 Newsletter

    Book Launch and events during COP26

    1 Nov 2021

  • 2021 Lecture

    Art, Activism & the Climate Emergency

    27 Oct 2021
    Contemporary Art Practice Speaker's Programme, University of Dundee

  • 2021 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect – Book Launch and Q&A

    15 Oct 2021
    Innovate4Cities, UN Habitat

  • 2021 Media

    The best Glasgow books to read this World Book Day

    4 Mar 2021
    Glasgow Times

  • 2020 Lecture

    Dear Green Glasgow

    12 Nov 2020
    Masters in Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art

  • 2020 Media

    The City Adapts

    19 Oct 2020
    Embassy of Mobility, World Design Embassies (Netherlands)

  • 2020 Installations
    Tonnes of carbon… installed in Meadowbank for Edinburgh Art Festival in 2020

    Tonnes of carbon produced by the personal transportation of a ‘professional artist’

    This graph was first compiled as the central illustration of Harrison’s 2019 book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint to illustrate the artist’s increasing amount of travel in the years running up to her 2016 project and the dramatic impact it had on reducing her carbon footprint for transport. It was updated in 2020 for display at Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 2020 Media

    Welcome to the 15-minute city

    19 Jul 2020
    Financial Times

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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 – 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 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Ellie Harrison

Ellie Harrison

Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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Are you in Glasgow this evening? Come along to this free screening of the brilliant POWER Film at The Glasgow School of Art 👇 I'll be introducing the event, talking about my work with Glasgow Community Energy and chairing a Q&A with artist and filmmaker Hilary Powell 😊 @followersSave the date! 🌞 We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion 👇
🗓️ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
🎟️ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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It’s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning 😡 Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 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 Glasgow’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 ‘When the Chips Hit the Fan’ – Chapter 5 of my book ‘The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint’ published by Luath Press 📚

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if you’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 🤩 Check it out here 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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🚶🚲🚍🚇🚉 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 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 conference at KVS Brussels 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

4 months ago
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Why are we still waiting for better buses? 🚌 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 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗦𝗣𝘀 to demand action 👇 @followers
📨 betterbuses.uk/strathclyde/#email
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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

8 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 £125 🥳💷 This means an annual payout of £0.79 for each or our 159 artist members 👏 @followers Read more here 👇
artistsbond.co.uk/14artistsbondreport2024.pdf
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