Ellie Harrison

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The Glasgow Effect

  • 2024 Media

    Too far to cycle?

    20 May 2024
    Edinburgh Napier University

  • 2022 Media

    Mobility: An Interview with Ellie Harrison

    1 Aug 2022
    Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline

  • 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

    Year-long projects with Ellie Harrison

    8 Jan 2022
    Neil Scott, Substack

  • 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 Media

    The Glasgow Effect

    1 Nov 2021
    Resurgence & The Ecologist (p.28)

  • 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 Writing

    City as Social Sculpture

    In this interview for LADA’s Live Art Sector Research report, Harrison reflects on how Live Art tools and tactics have influenced her practice, and explains how her Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund project evolved into Glasgow Community Energy – Glasgow’s new community-owned renewable energy co-operative. (Word count: 1,010)

  • 2021 Media

    The best Glasgow books to read this World Book Day

    4 Mar 2021
    Glasgow Times

  • 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

  • 2020 Writing

    Artist as Active Citizen

    Harrison reflects on The Glasgow Effect for this new text commissioned to launch a-n‘s year-long research project with AirSpace Gallery: Artists Make Change (May 2020 – May 2021). It is published alongside a new text by Dave Beech reflecting on the history of political art, to provoke discussion about artists’ roles in affecting social change. (Word count: 1,540)

  • 2020 Media

    The Glasgow Effect – Book Review

    1 Apr 2020
    Art Monthly (Issue 435 p.43)

  • 2020 Lecture

    Toxic Inequalities in Glasgow & Beyond – Ellie Harrison & Mary O’Hara

    12 Mar 2020
    AyeWrite, Mitchell Library, Glasgow

  • 2020 Lecture

    Each for Equal: International Women’s Day

    4 Mar 2020
    Trade Union Education Centre, City of Glasgow College

  • 2020 Media

    The Glasgow Effect – Book Review

    28 Feb 2020
    Amazon

  • 2020 Lecture

    Sonnet Youth

    19 Feb 2020
    Edinburgh, Stirling & Glasgow

  • 2020 Media

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

    13 Feb 2020
    Social & Cultural Geography, Taylor & Francis Online

  • 2020 Lecture

    Campus Cycling Officer Gathering

    15 Jan 2020
    Cycling Scotland, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

  • 2019 Media

    The Glasgow Effect interview

    19 Dec 2019
    Jackie Brambles, BBC Radio Scotland

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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

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

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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

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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

5 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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This 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝟲 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟳𝗽𝗺! 📣 Don't miss our FREE Cultivating Community Activism: Learning from Cathy McCormack’s ‘The Wee Yellow Butterfly’ event as part of Govanhill International Festival 🙌 Listen to my interview on Sunny Govan to find out more! @followers tune in from 1:04:09 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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