Ellie Harrison

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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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Ellie Harrison

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

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This 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 in Glasgow! 📢 I'm delighted to be talking about my work with Get Glasgow Moving & Glasgow Community Energy at the 𝘙𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸? conference at the University of Glasgow 🎟️ Tickets are free, so come join us 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! 👇 You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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"We need The Scottish Government to support our transport authority, SPT, to bring the bus network back into public control, so they can deliver a fully-integrated, accessible and affordable public transport network across the region like Greater Manchester’s new ‘Bee Network’, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshire’s ‘People’s Network’" — Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸 👏 Read online here 👇
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm 🌍 Find out more 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Are you in Glasgow this evening? Come along to this free screening of the brilliant POWER Film at The Glasgow School of Art 👇 I'll be introducing the event, talking about my work with Glasgow Community Energy and chairing a Q&A with artist and filmmaker Hilary Powell 😊 @followersSave the date! 🌞 We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion 👇
🗓️ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
🎟️ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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3 months ago
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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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