Ellie Harrison

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  • 2019 Lecture

    Transport Poverty: Problems & Solutions

    10 Oct 2019
    Challenge Poverty Week, Kinning Park Complex

  • 2019 Lecture

    Studio Jamming

    18 Sep 2019
    Cooper Gallery, Dundee

  • 2019 Lecture

    Privatisation & Outsourcing

    31 Aug 2019
    The Ferret Summer Gathering, University of Stirling

  • 2019 Lecture

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

    22 Aug 2019
    ScotlandsFest, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

  • 2019 Lecture

    A Tale of Two Cities – Ellie Harrison & Jemma Neville

    20 Aug 2019
    Edinburgh International Book Festival

  • 2019 Lecture

    Transforming Transport to address the Climate Emergency

    25 Jun 2019
    Climate Emergency Working Group, Glasgow City Council

  • 2019 Lecture

    Artistโ€™s Talk

    19 Mar 2019
    Creative Industries & Arts Organisation, Queen Margaret University, London

  • 2019 Lecture

    Artist’s Talk

    15 Mar 2019
    MFA Fine Art Media, The Slade, London

  • 2019 Lecture

    World-class Transport for Glasgow

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison presents a petition signed by 10,727 people calling for ‘World-class Transport for Glasgow‘ to Glasgow City Council’s Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community & Citizen Engagement Committee.

  • 2019 Lecture

    Chair’s Report

    8 Jan 2019
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM, Unite, Glasgow

  • 2018 Lecture

    The Future of Public Transport

    10 Nov 2018
    We Own It conference, London

  • 2018 Lecture

    Roundtable Discussion on Transport Bill

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison makes the case for publicly-owned buses and for a properly regulated and integrated public transport network, at the Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee’s Roundtable Discussion on the Transport Bill at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

  • 2018 Lecture

    Art & Energy

    9 May 2018
    Free Exchange, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire

  • 2018 Lectures

    Art, Activism & the Absurdities of Economic Growth

    Harrison’s first TEDx talk gives an overview of her work in the decade that followed the global financial crisis of 2008. She examines the inherent contradiction between the continual and infinite ‘growth’ demanded by capitalism and the ‘sustainability’ necessary to prevent climate change, and explains how some serious analysis of her own lifestyle within our globalised economic system, led her to make some extreme decisions.

  • 2018 Lecture

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

    4 May 2018
    BSA Early Career Forum, Newcastle University

  • 2017 Lecture

    Think Outside the Circle

    26 Oct 2017
    Transform Scotland AGM, Glasgow City Chambers

  • 2017 Lecture

    Air Pollution & Better Buses

    15 Jul 2017
    Friends of the Earth Scotland Summer Weekender, Wiston Lodge

  • 2017 Lecture

    Energising Culture

    9 Mar 2017
    Julie's Bicycle, Barbican, London

  • 2017 Lecture

    How can we afford an ethical practice?

    1 Mar 2017
    Royal College of Art, London

  • 2017 Lecture

    Universal Basic Income

    23 Feb 2017
    For Fika Sake, Glasgow

  • 2017 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect

    22 Feb 2017
    CECHR Annual Symposium, University of Dundee

  • 2017 Lecture

    In Conversation with Kathrin Bรถhm

    26 Jan 2017
    NN Contemporary Art, Northampton

  • 2017 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect

    On 8 January 2017, just one week after completing her year-long ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect, for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgowโ€™s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole of 2016, Harrison gave a talk about the work at the Glasgow Film Theatre. On 4 November 2019, she published a book providing the complete context for her thinking and action.

  • 2016 Social / Networks
    People Powered Money event at Glasgow City Chambers in November 2016

    People Powered Money

    From March 2016 – March 2017, Harrison worked as part of the ‘Glasgow Pound Working Group’, to explore possibilities for developing a citywide community currency to serve the people of Glasgow and build a stronger local economy.
    Project website

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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 โ€“ 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 ๐Ÿ˜น 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' ๐Ÿ“š

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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! ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš† Listen to find out more about my campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving, Better Buses for Strathclyde, Bring Back British Rail & GoBike ๐Ÿ‘‡ @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 ๐Ÿ“ท

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 โ€˜The Bossโ€™ 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 โ€˜The History of Financial Crisesโ€™ (2009), โ€˜Desk Chair Paradeโ€™ (2009) and โ€˜Desk Chair Discoโ€™ (2011), and the โ€˜Work-a-thon for the Self-Employedโ€™ (2011).

Iโ€™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 Iโ€™m preparing for Get Glasgow Movingโ€™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 Iโ€™m passionate about. Over the years I've designed many campaign materials โ€“ including this โ€˜Trans-Clyde Links You Clyde-Wideโ€™ 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 Thatcherโ€™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 regionโ€™s buses back in public control.

If you like the T-Shirt, come down to the exhibition in September and youโ€™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 ๐Ÿ˜Š See you there! @followers
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1 month ago
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This ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐Ÿฑ ๐—๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ in Glasgow! ๐Ÿ“ข I'm delighted to be talking about my work with Get Glasgow Moving & Glasgow Community Energy at the ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ: ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Ž๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ? conference at the University of Glasgow ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Tickets are free, so come join us ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ...

3 months ago
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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! ๐Ÿ‘‡ You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
๐Ÿ“บ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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4 months ago
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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 Manchesterโ€™s new โ€˜Bee Networkโ€™, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshireโ€™s โ€˜Peopleโ€™s Networkโ€™" โ€” Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about ๐˜ˆ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜Ž๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐Ÿ‘ Read online here ๐Ÿ‘‡
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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5 months ago
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '๐—”๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm ๐ŸŒ Find out more ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ...

5 months ago
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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 ๐Ÿ‘‡ 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 ๐Ÿ˜Š @followersSave the date! ๐ŸŒž We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion ๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
๐Ÿ“ Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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5 months ago
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Itโ€™s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning ๐Ÿ˜ก Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ 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 ...

7 months ago
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Commodities

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt £15.00
  • The Quotidian Factor Badge The Quotidian Factor Badge £2.00
  • Hen Weekend Bag Hen Weekend Bag £10.00
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  • Part-time Book Part-time Book £10.00
  • Counterpoint Poster Counterpoint Poster £10.00
  • Ellie & Oliver Show T-Shirt Ellie & Oliver Show T-Shirt £20.00
  • National Museum of Roller Derby T-Shirt National Museum of Roller Derby T-Shirt £25.00
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