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  • Exhibition

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    15 Jul 2023
    The Black-E, Liverpool

  • Exhibition

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)

    28 Jan 2023
    Platform, Glasgow

  • Performance / Events
    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at the Bluecoat on 13 November 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    The final part of Harrison’s Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy – inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’ – re-enacts the history of public transport provision in the Merseyside region from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!

  • Performance / Events
    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)

    The second iteration of Harrison’s Bus Regulation: The Musical – inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’ – re-enacts the history of public transport provision in the Strathclyde region from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!

  • Writing

    Artist as Active Citizen

    Harrison reflects on The Glasgow Effect for this new text commissioned to launch a-n‘s year-long research project with AirSpace Gallery: Artists Make Change (May 2020 – May 2021). It is published alongside a new text by Dave Beech reflecting on the history of political art, to provoke discussion about artists’ roles in affecting social change. (Word count: 1,540)

  • Writing

    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)

  • Performance / Events
    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at Manchester Art Gallery on 28 September 2019

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Greater Manchester)

    Inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’, this performance / event re-enacts the history of public transport provision in Greater Manchester from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!

  • Political Campaigns, Writing

    Power For The People!

    In this comment piece for The Ecologist, Harrison details how her concerns about climate change led her to start campaigning for the public ownership of our essential services and infrastructure with Bring Back British Rail and Power For The People. (Word count: 766)

  • Political Campaigns

    Power For The People

    Harrison launched Bring Back British Rail’s ‘sister campaign’ Power for the People in October 2013 in order to popularise the idea of returning the UK’s energy production and supply to public ownership. Together the campaigns aim to ‘join the dots’ between our most carbon-intensive industries and services to make evident the need to remove the profit-motive from all of them in order to meet the challenges of climate change.
    Campaign website

  • Installations
    The Redistribution of Wealth installed at Tate Britain in 2012

    The Redistribution of Wealth

    Installed in Tate Britain’s Historic Collection Room, this piece retells the history of UK government spending on the arts from the birth of the ‘Council for the Encouragement of Music & the Arts’ in 1940, right up to the present day climate of cutbacks.

  • Political Campaigns, Writing

    Bring Back British Rail

    As founder of the Bring Back British Rail campaign, Harrison was invited to write about the public ownership of our railways for the Green Party of England & Wales’s The New Home Front II (p.41-42) in 2012, which looks to the post-war period for lessons on how to tackle climate change now. (Word count: 709)

  • Installations
    Installation view at Castlefield Gallery

    Austerity & Anarchy

    An installation which employs a spotlight and smoke machine to visualise and explore the correlation between cuts in public spending and instances of mass rioting on the UK’s streets.

  • Installations
    A Brief History of Privatisation installed at Watermans in 2011

    A Brief History of Privatisation

    An installation in which the oscillations in UK public service policy over the last century are re-enacted by an inner circle of electric massage chairs under the seedy glow of red, and then blue, neon.

  • Political Campaigns

    Bring Back British Rail

    In 2009, Harrison – the self-professed ‘Che Guevara of trainspotters’ – founded the national Bring Back British Rail campaign to popularise the idea of re-nationalising our public transport system. Now with more than 150,000 supporters across Facebook, Twitter, Riseup and its online petitions, Harrison continues to coordinate the campaign with the help of a small network of volunteers around the UK.
    Campaign website

News

Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In January 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 – 2022).
In autumn 2021, a new and updated 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. 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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So exciting to see the original 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' feature on Channel 4 News tonight! 🥳 It is four years since I staged it at Manchester Art Gallery in 2019 as part of the Better Buses for Greater Manchester campaign. I’ll be back at the gallery this Sunday 24 Sept, 3pm to give a special talk to celebrate the launch of the first phase of the Bee Network 🚍🐝 Don't miss this historic day! Book FREE tickets: beenetwork.eventbrite.com ... See MoreSee Less

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Watch the full clip explaining the disaster of bus deregulation here: www.facebook.com/BetterBusesforGM/posts/710724034418087

Thought of you as soon as I saw it on the news!

Dont miss Bus Regulation: The Musical & the fight for Greater Manchesters buses - my special artist’s talk, screening & discussion at Manchester Art Gallery on Sunday 24 September to celebrate the launch of the Bee Network 🚍🚉🚆🐝 Find out more and book FREE tickets: beenetwork.eventbrite.com

Don't miss Bus Regulation: The Musical & the fight for Greater Manchester's buses - my special artist’s talk, screening & discussion at Manchester Art Gallery on Sunday 24 September to celebrate the launch of the Bee Network 🚍🚉🚆🐝 Find out more and book FREE tickets: beenetwork.eventbrite.com ... See MoreSee Less

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I've been a tenant at Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow since the end of 2010. I'm proud to be supporting this artist-led campaign to #SaveOurStudios ✊ Please help by signing & sharing our petition 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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Great coverage of the #SaveOurStudios campaign in this Saturday's HeraldScotland 👇https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23748772.buzz-angry-wasps-glasgows-artists-fight-work/

Good luck Ellie

Artists benefit Glasgow. Save their studios!!

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Ellie do you have a E mail address ?

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Twelve years on. I'm still loving being the Agent for The Artists' Bond 🥳 ... See MoreSee Less

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When I first saw this I thought we'd won £225 million!

This Weds 2 August, 7pm - I'm delighted to talking about my book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint with the brilliant Katie Gallogly-Swan as part of Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 🥳 Get your FREE TICKET here 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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

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