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    The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

    On 4 November 2019, Luath Press published Harrison’s first book. Inspired by her 2016 ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect – for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – the book provides the complete context for her thinking and action. (Word count: 119,000)

  • Exhibition

    Stored Sculpture Inventory

    20 Apr 2018
    Sculpture Showroom, Glasgow International

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    Rising

    29 Sep 2017
    Art Licks Weekend, London

  • Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    3 Jun 2017
    York Art Gallery

  • Media

    Q&A with Leisure Land Golf artist Ellie Harrison

    10 Mar 2017
    Art Fund

  • Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    2 Jul 2016
    QUAD, Derby

  • Lecture

    In Conversation with Doug Fishbone

    5 May 2016
    New Art Exchange, Nottingham

  • Media

    Is it art or crazy golf?

    13 Apr 2016
    Nottingham Evening Post

  • Exhibition

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    2 Apr 2016
    New Art Exchange, Nottingham

  • Media

    The crazy golf course tackling capitalism, migration and police brutality

    21 Feb 2016
    The Guardian

  • Media

    Dead Reckoning: Ellie Harrison & The Art of Austerity

    24 Jun 2015
    Furtherfield

  • Writing

    Venice Biennale: Think Local, Act Global!

    Harrison self-critically reflects on the experience of taking part in the 2015 Venice Biennale (as part of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf) in this short text for Press Room, which laid the groundwork for The Glasgow Effect in 2016. (Word count: 760)

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    The top artists at this year’s Venice Biennale

    14 May 2015
    Dazed Digital

  • 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.
    Project website

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    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    7 May 2015
    BBC News at Six, BBC One

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). On 8 January 2017, she presented The Glasgow Effect: A talk by Ellie Harrison at Glasgow Film Theatre. In 2019, she was commissioned to develop Bus Regulation: The Musical for Manchester Art Gallery and her first book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was published by Luath Press. In 2020-21, her Early Warning Signs are installed at four ‘host venues‘ around the UK and her Vending Machine features in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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This Weds 24 February, 7pm, I'm really looking forward to hosting Get Glasgow Moving's public meeting on Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty w/ special guest Philip Alston 🚍💰💸 Philip Alston is the former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, whose report from the UK in 2018 highlighted the deregulation and privatisation of our public transport as a key factor exacerbating poverty. Please join us to find out more! Sign up here 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty w/ special guest Philip Alston

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The Glasgow Community Energy project has been keeping me busy throughout lockdown 🌞 Were gearing up to release some exciting news in the next few months, so please sign up for updates 👇

The Glasgow Community Energy project has been keeping me busy throughout lockdown 🌞 We're gearing up to release some exciting news in the next few months, so please sign up for updates 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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It was a great honour to give evidence to Scotland's Climate Assembly this weekend on behalf of Get Glasgow Moving. My presentation outlined the ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes’ to our public transport system necessary before 2030 to address the climate emergency 🌍 ... See MoreSee Less

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Here's a little project I've been working on this year during lockdown - compiling a comprehensive Bibliography for my book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint', which was published by Luath Press in November 2019 📚🤓 The book itself has Endnotes, but no Bibliography, so I thought it would useful to draw together all the resources referenced in one alphabetical list, including links to those available online. ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

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Fancy a bit of holiday reading? 🎄 My book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' is on sale direct from publishers Luath Press 📕📙📒📗📘 Order by 15th December to receive in time for Christmas 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect — Luath Press

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Terrific book. Very readable and so interesting. All your answers to why things (often not great) happen in Glasgow.

If you care about Glasgow read this book.

I finally finished it! An online comprehensive Bibliography for the Book. I hope it's useful: glasgoweffect.ellieharrison.com/bibliography/

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