Ellie Harrison

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  • 2016 Media

    Rail Re-nationalisation debate

    4 Jan 2016
    5 Live Drive, BBC Radio 5 Live

  • 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

    High Street Casualties

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

  • 2015 Media

    High Street Casualties interview

    11 Apr 2015
    BBC Radio WM

  • 2015 Media

    Dark Days interview

    13 Feb 2015
    BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2015 Media

    Early Warning Signs interview

    14 Jan 2015
    BBC Radio Northampton

  • 2015 Media

    Jonathan Lampon Show Debate

    5 Jan 2015
    BBC Radio Leicester

  • 2014 Media

    Interview with Ellie Harrison

    18 Jul 2014
    Voice of Russia UK Radio

  • 2014 Media

    Facing Extinction

    9 Jul 2014
    Resonance FM (02:38-10:20)

  • 2014 Internet / Broadcasts

    Ellie & Oliver’s Long Distance Relationship

    For Glasgow Open House Arts Festival 2014, Harrison & her former flatmate Oliver Braid reunited to present two special editions of their popular radio show, as part of three interlinked projects taking place over two weekends, across both their new residences in the west and east of the city.

  • 2012 Media

    The Hour of Power

    9 Dec 2012
    Resonance FM

  • 2012 Internet / Broadcasts

    Friendship Festival

    For Glasgay! 2012, Harrison & her flatmate Oliver Braid presented Friendship Festival. Building on the success of their popular radio show, they invited six other friendly duos with intimate and provocative thoughts to share with the world, into their home for a series of weekend radio show ‘takeovers’.

  • 2012 Media

    Shelagh Fogarty Show Debate

    15 Aug 2012
    BBC Radio 5 Live

  • 2012 Media

    Danny Kelly Show Interview

    14 Aug 2012
    BBC Radio WM

  • 2012 Media

    Jeremy Vine Show Interview

    14 Aug 2012
    BBC Radio 2

  • 2012 Internet / Broadcasts

    Ellie & Oliver Show

    For a whole year, artists, friends and flatmates Ellie Harrison & Oliver Braid worked together to broadcast a weekly radio show LIVE from their flat in Glasgow (and from a variety of special locations across the UK and Ireland including Edinburgh Art Festival and Glasgow International).
    Project website

  • 2012 Media

    Interview with Ellie Harrison

    3 Jan 2012
    BBC Three Counties Radio

  • 2011 Media

    Ellie Harrison & Oliver Braid

    2 Nov 2011
    Wunderbar Radio

  • 2011 Media

    Ellie Harrison & Josie Long

    1 Nov 2011
    Wunderbar Radio

  • 2011 Media

    Vanessa Show Interview

    16 Aug 2011
    BBC Radio London

  • 2011 Media

    Breakfast Show Interview part 2

    16 Aug 2011
    BBC Radio London

  • 2011 Media

    Breakfast Show Interview

    16 Aug 2011
    BBC Radio Kent

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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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This weekend Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow is celebrating its 25th anniversary! ๐Ÿฅณ Iโ€™ve been based here for sixteen of those years, since 2010. On ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ข๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ๐—ฎ๐—บ-๐Ÿฐ๐—ฝ๐—บ Iโ€™m opening my studio to visitors as part of the buildingโ€™s special anniversary open studios event: waspsstudios.org.uk/news/hanson-street-studios-celebrates-25th-anniversary-this-october/ Please come down and say hello! @followers ...

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On Thursday night we launched the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaignโ€™s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at The New Glasgow Society ๐Ÿ™Œ Itโ€™s only on until Weds 23rd Sept, so please make sure you visit! ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Open every day until Weds 23rd September, 12noon-5pm
๐Ÿ“ 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL

Itโ€™s been a total labour of love to bring this exhibition together โ€“ four daysโ€™ solid to install and a whole summer spent sorting through the archives and organising more than 240 photographs, sixty press cuttings, fifty films, alongside many old placards, banners and leaflets to the tell the story of our campaign over the last decade ๐Ÿš ๐Ÿš‡ ๐Ÿš†

If you donโ€™t know much about Get Glasgow Moving or just want to find out how Iโ€™ve been spending a massive chunk of my time over the last 10 years as the campaignโ€™s co-founder and chairperson โ€“ then please make sure you come along!

Iโ€™ll be invigilating from Monday โ€“ Weds, so come and say hi ๐Ÿ˜Š

We are also selling our popular campaign t-shirts, designed by yours truly, for just ยฃ10 โ€“ so don't miss your chance to get one ๐Ÿ‘•

And thanks, as always, to Neil Scott for the wonderful photos!

Presented as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026

#GlasgowDoorsOpenDaysFestival #GlasgowGoesOut #CulturalHeritage #GlasgowEvents #GDODF26 @followers
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Opening this Thursday! ๐Ÿ“ข Please don't miss this special exhibition I've curated to celebrate the Get Glasgow Moving campaign's 10th Anniversary ๐Ÿฅณ I've been working on it all summer and it's ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜… ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ at The New Glasgow Society as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival #GDODF26 @followers ๐Ÿ™ ...

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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 ๐ŸšŒ๐Ÿฅณ 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 ...

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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 ๐Ÿ‘ But their ยฃ2 fare cap will do nothing to improve services, create new routes or integrate timetables and tickets with other transport modes ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš† For that we must bring our bus network back into public control. Please support Better Buses for Strathclyde to make it happen โœŠ @followers ...

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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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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 ...

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