Ellie Harrison

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  • 2019 Writing

    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)

  • 2015 Media

    After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison

    24 Feb 2015
    AVANT

  • 2007 Media

    This is Ellie Harrison

    1 Mar 2007
    Candy Magazine (Ireland) (Issue 7 p.103-113)

  • 2006 Newsletter

    Day-to-Day Data Press Features

    7 Apr 2006

  • 2006 Media

    Day-to-Day Data

    5 Apr 2006
    Time Out London (p.38)

  • 2006 Media

    Insignificance

    1 Apr 2006
    Art Monthly (Issue 295 p.7-10)

  • 2006 Newsletter

    Day-to-Day Data Symposium (ICA, London)

    15 Mar 2006

  • 2006 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.

  • 2006 Newsletter

    Daily Data Display Room / Tea Blog

    7 Mar 2006

  • 2006 Newsletter

    Day-to-Day Data (Danielle Arnaud)

    28 Feb 2006

  • 2006 Media

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Logger

    1 Feb 2006
    Cracked Actor

  • 2005 Exhibition

    Day-to-Day Data

    17 Sep 2005
    Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

  • 2005 Newsletter

    Day-to-Day Data (Aspex Gallery)

    11 Sep 2005

  • 2005 Media

    Top Five Galleries

    20 Aug 2005
    The Times (The Knowledge)

  • 2005 Newsletter

    Day-to-Day Data Publication

    17 Aug 2005

  • 2005 Media

    Sæbebobler på Skærmen

    11 Aug 2005
    Weekendavisen #31 (Denmark)

  • 2005 Media

    Many Conceptual Artists Have an Unholy Delight in Statistics

    27 Jul 2005
    The Times (T2 p.16)

  • 2005 Media

    Day-to-Day Data interview

    26 Jul 2005
    BBC Radio Nottingham

  • 2005 Media

    Review: Day-to-Day Data

    25 Jul 2005
    Metro (p.21)

  • 2005 Media

    Under the Data, the Stars

    25 Jul 2005
    Rhizome

  • 2005 Media

    Exhibition: Day-to-Day Data

    23 Jul 2005
    The Guardian (The Guide p.37)

  • 2005 Social / Networks
    Daily Data Display Wall installed at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham in 2005

    Day-to-Day Data

    Day-to-Day Data – ‘an exhibition of artists who collect, list, database and absurdly analyse the data of everyday life’, was Harrison’s first major curatorial project. It developed as a way of further exploring the ideas at the core of her practice, and as a way of bringing together a group of artists who shared similar interests. The project featured newly commissioned works by twenty artists and comprised a gallery-based exhibition touring to three UK venues, a publication and a website.
    Project website

  • 2005 Writing
    Day-to-Day Data Book

    Day-to-Day Data

    Harrison edited the publication for her 2005 curatorial project Day-to-Day Data. Featuring the work of twenty artists who ‘collect, list, database and absurdly analyse the data of everyday life’, the publication offers an introduction to the project’s key themes and an overview of each artist’s work. Harrison wrote the Curator’s Introduction as well as an Introduction to her new work for the show, the Daily Data Display Wall. (Word count: 736)

  • 2005 Media

    Out of the Ordinary

    19 Jul 2005
    Metro (p.21)

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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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  • Counterpoint Poster Counterpoint Poster £10.00
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  • Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt £15.00
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