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  • 2016 Media

    The Glasgow Effect phone-in

    5 Jan 2016
    Kaye Adams, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2016 Media

    Art of provoking a backlash

    5 Jan 2016
    The Herald (p.1)

  • 2016 Media

    London artist paid £15k public money to spend a year in Glasgow for research project branded ‘poverty safari’

    4 Jan 2016
    Daily Record

  • 2016 Media

    Rail Re-nationalisation debate

    4 Jan 2016
    5 Live Drive, BBC Radio 5 Live

  • 2015 Media

    Project to turn renewable energy into arts funding has wind in its sails

    14 Dec 2015
    a-n website

  • 2015 Media

    Wind-Powered Art

    30 Nov 2015
    10:10 UK

  • 2015 Media

    GHAOS Reigns: The Total Institutions of Reactor

    7 Nov 2015
    The Quietus

  • 2015 Media

    Harnessing the Wind

    1 Nov 2015
    Art Monthly (Issue 391 p.33)

  • 2015 Media

    Blowing in the wind: artist launches campaign to fund art with renewable energy

    8 Oct 2015
    a-n website

  • 2015 Media

    Interview with Ellie Harrison

    3 Oct 2015
    Wizard Radio

  • 2015 Media

    Daily Show Debate

    20 Aug 2015
    BBC Radio 5 Live

  • 2015 Media

    The Big Conversation Show Interview

    18 Aug 2015
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

  • 2015 Media

    Island: Adaptation I & II

    14 Aug 2015
    This is Tomorrow

  • 2015 Media

    Let a Public Train take the Strain

    8 Aug 2015
    The Guardian (p.33)

  • 2015 Media

    Politicians Quizzed on Quirky Bike Ride

    16 Jul 2015
    Hackney Gazette (p.3)

  • 2015 Media

    Have it out with your local MP… on a seven-person bike

    14 Jul 2015
    Time Out London

  • 2015 Media

    Ellie Harrison on ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like!’

    14 Jul 2015
    The Yard Theatre

  • 2015 Media

    Dead Reckoning: Ellie Harrison & The Art of Austerity

    24 Jun 2015
    Furtherfield

  • 2015 Media

    High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk

    18 Jun 2015
    This is Tomorrow

  • 2015 Media

    The top artists at this year’s Venice Biennale

    14 May 2015
    Dazed Digital

  • 2015 Media

    Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

    7 May 2015
    BBC News at Six, BBC One

  • 2015 Media

    MONEY M€AL

    3 May 2015
    Summerhall TV

  • 2015 Media

    High Street Casualties

    28 Apr 2015
    Live! Arts Radio (34:05-37:30)

  • 2015 Media

    Home Truths

    26 Apr 2015
    Scotland on Sunday (Spectrum p.16-17)

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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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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

4 weeks 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 👇 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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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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4 months ago
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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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🚶🚲🚍🚇🚉 I was honoured to be invited to discuss my activism with Bring Back British Rail, Get Glasgow Moving & Better Buses for Strathclyde at ETF's 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 conference at KVS Brussels 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

5 months ago
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