Ellie Harrison

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The Glasgow Effect

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    11 Dec 2019
    Blackwell's South Bridge, Edinburgh

  • 2019 Lecture

    COP Tales

    10 Dec 2019
    Creative Carbon Scotland, Civic House, Glasgow (36:04-42:26)

  • 2019 Lecture

    In Conversation with artist Ellie Harrison

    5 Dec 2019
    Outwith Agency, Glasgow

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    13 Nov 2019
    The NewBridge Project, Gateshead

  • 2019 Lecture

    Art After the Collapse

    8 Nov 2019
    Dartington, Totnes

  • 2019 Lecture
    Pecha Kucha Dundee

    Pecha Kucha

    4 Nov 2019
    Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee

  • 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)

  • 2019 Media

    You can’t take the girl out of Glasgow

    3 Nov 2019
    The Herald (Scottish Life p.6-9)

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    1 Nov 2019
    Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

  • 2019 Media

    The Glasgow Effect – Book Review

    28 Oct 2019
    Goodreads

  • 2019 Media

    Shut M8 to let Glasgow breathe, says artist

    27 Oct 2019
    The Sunday Times (p.5)

  • 2019 Media
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

    Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”

    27 Oct 2019
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)

  • 2019 Lecture

    Gender (Still) Matters! How Citizenship Education Can Promote Empowerment

    25 Oct 2019
    NECE, University of Strathclyde

  • 2019 Lecture

    Radical!

    16 Oct 2019
    Culture Day, University of Dundee

  • 2019 Lecture

    Studio Jamming

    18 Sep 2019
    Cooper Gallery, Dundee

  • 2019 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect: Social Mobility in Scotland – Ellie Harrison & Kenneth Calman

    22 Aug 2019
    ScotlandsFest, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

  • 2019 Media

    Glasgow Effect artist Ellie Harrison launches book in response to ‘social media ****storm’

    21 Aug 2019
    The Scotsman

  • 2019 Lecture

    A Tale of Two Cities – Ellie Harrison & Jemma Neville

    20 Aug 2019
    Edinburgh International Book Festival

  • 2019 Media

    Luath’s Safari continues on the back of prize-winning bestseller by rapper Loki

    1 Feb 2019
    The Bookseller

  • 2018 Media

    Publicly Funded Art

    17 May 2018
    The Work of Art, National Galleries of Scotland

  • 2018 Lecture

    From Wild Cat Strikes to Collective Action: Building the University of the Future

    4 May 2018
    BSA Early Career Forum, Newcastle University

  • 2018 Media

    Sinister Backdrop to the War of the Luvvies

    3 Feb 2018
    Scottish Daily Mail (p.16-17)

  • 2017 Media

    Rebellious Concepts

    1 Apr 2017
    Sleek (Issue 53 p.78-82) (Germany)

  • 2017 Lecture

    Universal Basic Income

    23 Feb 2017
    For Fika Sake, Glasgow

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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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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

7 months ago
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Published today! Che

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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