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

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Another massive win for our campaign today! 🥳 Slowly but surely we will get all Scotland's buses back in public control 🚌 ✊ @followers ...

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Today marks 40 years since ‘D-Day’ – the day that Margaret Thatcher’s 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 was implemented everywhere across England, Scotland & Wales, except London 🚍 I’ve devoted the last 10 years of my life fighting to undo the damage that this policy caused. On Saturday, I was proud to be part of this special online event to mark the occasion 👏 You can watch the recording here 👇 @followers
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This is Massive! 📢 Did you hear First Minster John Swinney announce that all buses in Scotland will be brought back into public control by 2031? 🚍🥳 After 10 years' campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving and Better Buses for Strathclyde, it's just amazing to see The Scottish Government finally starting to listen! Hear my reaction in this special podcast for The National Newspaper 👇 @followers ...

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This weekend Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow is celebrating its 25th anniversary! 🥳 I’ve been based here for sixteen of those years, since 2010. On 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟯 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺-𝟰𝗽𝗺 I’m opening my studio to visitors as part of the building’s special anniversary open studios event: waspsstudios.org.uk/news/hanson-street-studios-celebrates-25th-anniversary-this-october/ Please come down and say hello! @followers ...

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On Thursday night we launched the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at The New Glasgow Society 🙌 It’s only on until Weds 23rd Sept, so please make sure you visit! 👇

🗓️ Open every day until Weds 23rd September, 12noon-5pm
📍 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL

It’s been a total labour of love to bring this exhibition together – four days’ solid to install and a whole summer spent sorting through the archives and organising more than 240 photographs, sixty press cuttings, fifty films, alongside many old placards, banners and leaflets to the tell the story of our campaign over the last decade 🚍 🚇 🚆

If you don’t know much about Get Glasgow Moving or just want to find out how I’ve been spending a massive chunk of my time over the last 10 years as the campaign’s co-founder and chairperson – then please make sure you come along!

I’ll be invigilating from Monday – Weds, so come and say hi 😊

We are also selling our popular campaign t-shirts, designed by yours truly, for just £10 – so don't miss your chance to get one 👕

And thanks, as always, to Neil Scott for the wonderful photos!

Presented as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026

#GlasgowDoorsOpenDaysFestival #GlasgowGoesOut #CulturalHeritage #GlasgowEvents #GDODF26 @followers
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Opening this Thursday! 📢 Please don't miss this special exhibition I've curated to celebrate the Get Glasgow Moving campaign's 10th Anniversary 🥳 I've been working on it all summer and it's 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 at The New Glasgow Society as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival #GDODF26 @followers 🙏 ...

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I was delighted to be back in Liverpool City Region this week for the launch of Merseytravel's new publicly-controlled bus network 🚌🥳 I staged 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' here in 2022 and 2023 as part of the campaign which led to Steve Rotheram's decision to become the 2nd UK city region to roll-out bus franchising, after Greater Manchester. Find out more here: ellieharrison.com/merseyside @followers ...

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After 10 years campaigning, it's just brilliant to see The Scottish Government finally taking action to regulate bus fares in Glasgow 👏 But their £2 fare cap will do nothing to improve services, create new routes or integrate timetables and tickets with other transport modes 🚍🚇🚆 For that we must bring our bus network back into public control. Please support Better Buses for Strathclyde to make it happen ✊ @followers ...

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Commodities

  • Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector Book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector £10.00
  • Hen Weekend Bag Hen Weekend Bag £10.00
  • Ellie & Oliver Show T-Shirt Ellie & Oliver Show T-Shirt £20.00
  • National Museum of Roller Derby Sticker National Museum of Roller Derby Sticker £3.00
  • Gold Card Adventures Poster Gold Card Adventures Poster £5.00
  • 4 Live Broadcasts DVD 4 LIVE Broadcasts DVD £20.00
  • The Glasgow Effect (First Edition) The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint £10.00 – £12.00Price range: £10.00 through £12.00
  • Tea Blog Sticker Tea Blog Sticker £1.00
  • Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt £15.00

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