Ellie Harrison

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  • 2021 Lecture

    Community Wealth Building in a Climate Emergency

    11 Sep 2021
    Scottish Trade Union Congress

  • 2021 Lecture

    Implementing Scotland’s new bus powers: what’s at stake?

    8 Sep 2021
    Get Glasgow Moving Members Meeting

  • 2021 Lecture

    Just Transition in Transport?

    2 Sep 2021
    Climate, Jobs, Justice: Making the Just Transition Happen, Just Transition Partnership

  • 2021 Lecture

    Britain’s Bus Crisis: Privatisation, Poverty & Human Rights

    21 Jul 2021
    Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, New York University

  • 2021 Lecture

    Raising ambition: A tale of two Regions

    29 Jun 2021
    Connect with Climate Change

  • 2021 Lecture

    Walk & Talk with artist Ellie Harrison

    26 Jun 2021
    Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

  • 2021 Lecture

    Building Back Better: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

    27 Mar 2021
    Scottish Green Party Conference

  • 2021 Lecture

    Putting Free Buses back on the Agenda

    25 Mar 2021
    Free Our City public hearing (1:44:01-1:50:01)

  • 2021 Lecture

    The Climate Hot Seat – The Warm-up

    12 Mar 2021
    YouthLink Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Divest Panel Discussion

    12 Mar 2021
    Green Week, University of Warwick

  • 2021 Lecture

    Environmental Sustainability in Policy & Programming

    2 Mar 2021
    Cultural Adaptations, Creative Carbon Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty

    24 Feb 2021
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM

  • 2021 Lecture

    Launch Rally

    14 Jan 2021
    Another Glasgow is Possible

  • 2021 Lecture

    How should Scotland change how it travels?

    9 Jan 2021
    Scotland’s Climate Assembly

  • 2020 Lecture

    Artists & Climate Change: Awareness

    3 Dec 2020
    Scottish Artists Union

  • 2020 Lecture

    Just Transition: a fairer, greener Scotland

    25 Nov 2020
    Just Transition Commission, Scottish Government

  • 2020 Lecture

    How can we build a green recovery?

    23 Nov 2020
    Glasgow Covid-19 Action Group

  • 2020 Lecture

    Art, Activism & Sustainable Transport in Glasgow

    20 Nov 2020
    Impact Arts, Glasgow

  • 2020 Lecture

    Spotlight on Glasgow

    14 Nov 2020
    From the Ground Up, COP26 Coalition (0:37:00-0:39:10)

  • 2020 Lecture

    Dear Green Glasgow

    12 Nov 2020
    Masters in Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art

  • 2020 Lecture

    My Philosophy of Art School Education

    4 Nov 2020
    Contemporary Art Practice Speaker's Programme, University of Dundee

  • 2020 Lecture

    Ellie Harrison: Bunker Talks

    22 Oct 2020
    Manchester School of Art

  • 2020 Lecture

    Building Back Better Public Transport

    19 Oct 2020
    People Before Profit Scotland launch event (0:55:40-0:58:43)

  • 2020 Lecture

    A Green Recovery: the Future of Transport in Glasgow

    14 Oct 2020
    Greenpeace 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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Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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This is Massive! 📢 Did you hear First Minster John Swinney announce that all buses in Scotland will be brought back into public control by 2031? 🚍🥳 After 10 years' campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving and Better Buses for Strathclyde, it's just amazing to see The Scottish Government finally starting to listen! Hear my reaction in this special podcast for The National Newspaper 👇 @followers ...

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This weekend Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow is celebrating its 25th anniversary! 🥳 I’ve been based here for sixteen of those years, since 2010. On 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟯 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺-𝟰𝗽𝗺 I’m opening my studio to visitors as part of the building’s special anniversary open studios event: waspsstudios.org.uk/news/hanson-street-studios-celebrates-25th-anniversary-this-october/ Please come down and say hello! @followers ...

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On Thursday night we launched the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at The New Glasgow Society 🙌 It’s only on until Weds 23rd Sept, so please make sure you visit! 👇

🗓️ Open every day until Weds 23rd September, 12noon-5pm
📍 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL

It’s been a total labour of love to bring this exhibition together – four days’ solid to install and a whole summer spent sorting through the archives and organising more than 240 photographs, sixty press cuttings, fifty films, alongside many old placards, banners and leaflets to the tell the story of our campaign over the last decade 🚍 🚇 🚆

If you don’t know much about Get Glasgow Moving or just want to find out how I’ve been spending a massive chunk of my time over the last 10 years as the campaign’s co-founder and chairperson – then please make sure you come along!

I’ll be invigilating from Monday – Weds, so come and say hi 😊

We are also selling our popular campaign t-shirts, designed by yours truly, for just £10 – so don't miss your chance to get one 👕

And thanks, as always, to Neil Scott for the wonderful photos!

Presented as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026

#GlasgowDoorsOpenDaysFestival #GlasgowGoesOut #CulturalHeritage #GlasgowEvents #GDODF26 @followers
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Opening this Thursday! 📢 Please don't miss this special exhibition I've curated to celebrate the Get Glasgow Moving campaign's 10th Anniversary 🥳 I've been working on it all summer and it's 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 at The New Glasgow Society as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival #GDODF26 @followers 🙏 ...

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I was delighted to be back in Liverpool City Region this week for the launch of Merseytravel's new publicly-controlled bus network 🚌🥳 I staged 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' here in 2022 and 2023 as part of the campaign which led to Steve Rotheram's decision to become the 2nd UK city region to roll-out bus franchising, after Greater Manchester. Find out more here: ellieharrison.com/merseyside @followers ...

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After 10 years campaigning, it's just brilliant to see The Scottish Government finally taking action to regulate bus fares in Glasgow 👏 But their £2 fare cap will do nothing to improve services, create new routes or integrate timetables and tickets with other transport modes 🚍🚇🚆 For that we must bring our bus network back into public control. Please support Better Buses for Strathclyde to make it happen ✊ @followers ...

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Thanks so much to The National Newspaper for inviting me to discuss how to fix Glasgow's public transport on their podcast! 😄🚍🚇🚆 Listen to find out more about my campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving, Better Buses for Strathclyde, Bring Back British Rail & GoBike 👇 @followers ...

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It was great to meet Paul from PalFox Photography last month when he visited me at Wasps Studios Hanson Street to take these fab pictures 📷

My studio has always been more like an office than anything else, going back to my very first one in Glasgow in the Barnes Building at The Glasgow School of Art from 2008-2010. I bought ‘The Boss’ mug back then as I was interested in the aesthetics of the corporate world and exploring what it meant to be self-employed worker, making pieces like ‘The History of Financial Crises’ (2009), ‘Desk Chair Parade’ (2009) and ‘Desk Chair Disco’ (2011), and the ‘Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed’ (2011).

I’m not making much art these days as nearly all my time goes into local community activism, particularly with the Glasgow Community Energy co-operative which I helped get up-and-running during the pandemic, and with the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign which I co-founded in 2016.

Over the summer I’m preparing for Get Glasgow Moving’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at the New Glasgow Society, which opens on Thurs 17 September as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026.

I love using my creative skills to further causes that I’m passionate about. Over the years I've designed many campaign materials – including this ‘Trans-Clyde Links You Clyde-Wide’ T-Shirt, which is based on the original marketing for the Trans-Clyde integrated public transport network launched by the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive in 1979, the year that I was born.

The integrated public transport networks which most big city-regions had were wilfully destroyed in 1986 with the deregulation (and later privatisation) of buses. This was one of the most destructive of all Margaret Thatcher’s policies, and it is shameful that The Scottish Government has continued to maintain it for more than quarter of a century of devolution. With the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign, we are doing all we can to get our region’s buses back in public control.

If you like the T-Shirt, come down to the exhibition in September and you’ll be able to get one there! And, if you'd like to have a nosey round my studio, I'm also planning to take part in the Open Studios at Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow on Sat 3 October 😊 See you there! @followers
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Commodities

  • Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund Sticker Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund Sticker £3.00
  • Hen Weekend Bag Hen Weekend Bag £10.00
  • Gold Card Adventures Poster Gold Card Adventures Poster £5.00
  • Channel Swimming Challenge Logbook Channel Swimming Challenge Logbook £3.00
  • 4 Live Broadcasts DVD 4 LIVE Broadcasts DVD £20.00
  • National Museum of Roller Derby Sticker National Museum of Roller Derby Sticker £3.00
  • Ellie & Oliver Show T-Shirt Ellie & Oliver Show T-Shirt £20.00
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  • National Museum of Roller Derby T-Shirt National Museum of Roller Derby T-Shirt £25.00

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