Ellie Harrison

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  • 2014 Media

    Save our Shops – Say No campaign heads to Parliament

    25 Jan 2014
    West End Report

  • 2014 Media

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

    17 Jan 2014
    Wellcome Collection

  • 2014 Media

    Time & Motion: come ridefinire oggi la nostra vita lavorativa

    8 Jan 2014
    UnDo.net (Italy)

  • 2014 Media

    Going Underground

    6 Jan 2014
    RT UK

  • 2013 Media

    Climate Change: “Artists can energise people to act”

    24 Oct 2013
    a-n website

  • 2013 Media

    Swaying Railway

    17 Sep 2013
    KBS News (South Korea)

  • 2013 Media

    Petition launched for ‘Say No’ supermarket campaign

    29 Aug 2013
    West End Report

  • 2013 Media

    The Hunger Artists

    1 Aug 2013
    The Magazine (Issue 22 p.38-46)

  • 2013 Media

    Campaigners hit out a plan for Tesco store in West End

    10 Jun 2013
    Evening Times (p.19)

  • 2013 Media

    Копья против ножниц: искусство в плену бюджетных сокращений

    20 May 2013
    Colta.ru (Russia)

  • 2013 Media

    The History of Financial Crises

    17 May 2013
    Money after Money (Japan)

  • 2013 Media

    Artists speak about ‘value’ at For the love of it

    16 May 2013
    a-n website

  • 2013 Media

    ‘Open Data’ Brings Potential and Perils for Government

    9 May 2013
    Wall Street Journal TV

  • 2013 Media

    Téma: Eat 22

    1 Apr 2013
    Čilichili (Czech Republic) (p.20)

  • 2013 Media

    Thrift Radiates Happiness

    26 Mar 2013
    This is Tomorrow

  • 2013 Media

    Artists’ Bond: “The aim is to forge a new sense of camaraderie”

    18 Mar 2013
    a-n website

  • 2013 Media

    National Museum of Roller Derby

    1 Jan 2013
    Broadsheet (Issue 22 p.5)

  • 2012 Media

    Notes towards Becoming a Good Citizen

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

  • 2012 Media

    The Hour of Power

    9 Dec 2012
    Resonance FM

  • 2012 Media

    Acts of Legacy

    4 Oct 2012
    a-n website

  • 2012 Media

    She Shelves Sanctuary

    9 Sep 2012
    Scotland on Sunday (The Week p.8-9)

  • 2012 Media

    National Museum of Roller Derby

    1 Sep 2012
    Lead Jammer (Issue 3 p.14)

  • 2012 Media

    The Revolution on Roller Skates

    1 Sep 2012
    Inside Line (Issue 5 p.34)

  • 2012 Media

    Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby

    24 Aug 2012
    London Rockin' Rollers

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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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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 ...

2 weeks ago
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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 ...

2 weeks ago
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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 ...

2 months ago
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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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2 months ago
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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 ...

4 months ago
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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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5 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 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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Commodities

  • Day-to-Day Data Book Day-to-Day Data Book £20.00
  • Hen Weekend Badge Hen Weekend Badge £2.00
  • Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt £15.00
  • National Museum of Roller Derby Sticker National Museum of Roller Derby Sticker £3.00
  • Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector Book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector £10.00
  • Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund Sticker Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund Sticker £3.00
  • The Glasgow Effect (First Edition) The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint £10.00 – £12.00Price range: £10.00 through £12.00
  • 4 Live Broadcasts DVD 4 LIVE Broadcasts DVD £20.00
  • Gold Card Adventures Poster Gold Card Adventures Poster £5.00

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