Ellie Harrison

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  • 2023 Media

    Faut-il privatiser les transports en commun?

    16 Apr 2023
    27, ARTE (France)

  • 2022 Media

    Busverkehr in Großbritannien „Ein Desaster“

    22 Dec 2022
    Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandradio (Germany)

  • 2022 Lecture

    Alternatives: mobility industry & public ownership

    28 Jun 2022
    Automotive Industry: Just Transition & the development of alternatives in the international value chains, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels (Belgium)

  • 2021 Media

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

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

  • 2021 Exhibition

    Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

    6 Sep 2021
    Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (Chile)

  • 2021 Media

    Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

    23 Aug 2021
    Artishock (Chile)

  • 2020 Media

    The City Adapts

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

  • 2019 Media
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

    Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”

    27 Oct 2019
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)

  • 2017 Publication

    Eat Me

    23 Sep 2017
    Trapholt (Denmark) (p.28 & p.154-155) ISBN 978-8772690216

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Eat Me

    23 Sep 2017
    Trapholt, Kolding (Denmark)

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Alles zur Zeit

    21 May 2017
    Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)

  • 2017 Media

    Rebellious Concepts

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

  • 2017 Exhibition

    Show Me the Money!

    10 Feb 2017
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (Denmark)

  • 2016 Media

    Neu für euch: Eat 22

    1 Jun 2016
    Ambulanz (Germany) (p.28)

  • 2016 Media

    ‘Poverty safari’: Glasgow art project comes under fire

    6 Jan 2016
    Apollo

  • 2016 Media

    Artist Defends Controversial Project to Stay Local in Glasgow

    6 Jan 2016
    Artnet News (USA)

  • 2015 Exhibition

    Laboro Ergo Sum

    7 Nov 2015
    amberPlatform, Istanbul (Turkey)

  • 2015 Lecture

    Data Traces

    4 Jul 2015
    Academy of Art & Design FHNW, Basel (Switzerland)

  • 2015 Publication

    Poetics & Politics of Data

    1 Jul 2015
    Christoph Merian (Switzerland) (p.116-121) ISBN 978-3856166816

  • 2015 Exhibition

    The Art of Self-Tracking

    18 Jun 2015
    QS15 Exposition, San Francisco (USA)

  • 2015 Exhibition

    Poetics & Politics of Data

    29 May 2015
    HeK, Basel (Switzerland)

  • 2015 Installations
    Life Raft in action at Venice Biennale in 2015

    Life Raft

    Designed as the final hole of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, Life Raft – a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal – offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing.
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  • 2015 Media

    Artworks that Clock Working Life

    20 Mar 2015
    Hyperallergic

  • 2015 Media

    After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison

    24 Feb 2015
    AVANT

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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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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
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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival 🙌 @followers

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Published today! Check out The Artists Bonds 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 👇
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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 👇
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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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I was delighted to be interviewed about the Bring Back British Rail campaign for 14-year-old Riku Fryderyk's brilliant new documentary about rail re-nationalisation 🚉 Well worth a watch! 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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