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  • 2023 Media

    Regulate! Ellie Harrison interview by Lynsey Hanley

    1 May 2023
    Tribune (Issue 18 p.92-94)

  • 2022 Media

    Fusing art and activism

    1 Dec 2022
    Culture, Climate & Environmental Responsibility, Julie's Bicycle

  • 2022 Media

    Mobility: An Interview with Ellie Harrison

    1 Aug 2022
    Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline

  • 2022 Media

    Transport for All: Ellie Harrison on bringing back publicly-owned buses

    6 Jul 2022
    Common Weal Policy Podcast, The Common Weal

  • 2022 Media

    Year-long projects with Ellie Harrison

    8 Jan 2022
    Neil Scott, Substack

  • 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

    Our public transport must be a joy to use

    4 Apr 2021
    The Sunday Post

  • 2020 Media

    The City Adapts

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

  • 2020 Media

    Artists to present work outdoors and online to mark dates of cancelled Edinburgh Art Festival

    1 Aug 2020
    The Scotsman

  • 2019 Media
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

    Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”

    27 Oct 2019
    Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)

  • 2018 Media

    Should we bring back British Rail?

    20 Sep 2018
    Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

  • 2018 Media

    Publicly Funded Art

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

  • 2017 Media

    Q&A with Leisure Land Golf artist Ellie Harrison

    10 Mar 2017
    Art Fund

  • 2016 Media

    Artists need to stick their necks out

    7 Jan 2016
    CommonSpace

  • 2015 Media

    Ellie Harrison on ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like!’

    14 Jul 2015
    The Yard Theatre

  • 2015 Media

    High Street Casualties interview

    11 Apr 2015
    BBC Radio WM

  • 2015 Media

    After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison

    24 Feb 2015
    AVANT

  • 2015 Media

    Dark Days interview

    13 Feb 2015
    BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2015 Media

    A Night at the Museum with a Difference

    30 Jan 2015
    Evening Times (p.16-17)

  • 2015 Media

    Early Warning Signs interview

    14 Jan 2015
    BBC Radio Northampton

  • 2014 Media

    Interview: Ellie Harrison

    3 Oct 2014
    Generation

  • 2014 Media

    Collections & Hoardings

    7 Feb 2014
    The Hospital for Dazed Art

  • 2014 Media

    Eat 22: Object of the Month (interview with Ellie Harrison)

    17 Jan 2014
    Wellcome Collection

  • 2012 Media

    Notes towards Becoming a Good Citizen

    16 Dec 2012
    New Escapologist (Issue 8 p.17-21)

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

It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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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 👇
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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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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It was such an honour to be part of this wonderful event on Saturday, and to help launch the new freely-available audiobook of The Wee Yellow Butterfly by Cathy McCormack 🦋📚 Find out more at: glasgowenergy.coop/audiobook @followers

It was such an honour to be part of this wonderful event on Saturday, and to help launch the new freely-available audiobook of The Wee Yellow Butterfly by Cathy McCormack 🦋📚 Find out more at: glasgowenergy.coop/audiobook @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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