Ellie Harrison

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  • 2023 Lecture

    Centre for Cities Report Launch

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison introduces Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities, at the launch of their new report Miles better: Improving public transport in the Glasgow City Region at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

  • 2018 Lecture

    Roundtable Discussion on Transport Bill

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison makes the case for publicly-owned buses and for a properly regulated and integrated public transport network, at the Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee’s Roundtable Discussion on the Transport Bill at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

  • 2016 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect

    Harrison was invited by the Scottish Artists Union to speak via Skype to the Cross-Party Group on Culture at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on 1 March 2016. She screened The Glasgow Effect by Wee D before discussing his arguments in relation to wider debates about arts funding, economic policy and social change.

  • 2014 Political Campaigns

    Say No to Tesco

    In 2013, Harrison led the Say No to Tesco campaign, which began as a protest against the proliferation of small supermarkets in Glasgow and concluded in the group presenting a petition to the Scottish Parliament in 2014.

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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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Iโ€™m celebrating the 10th Anniversary of my crazy-golf inspired sculpture Life Raft by showing it as part of Gallery No.32s Winter Sculpture Park at the former Thamesmead golf course until 26 April 2025 โ›ณ @followers When the Sculpture Park closes, I will be looking for a new home for Life Raft, so if you can help in anyway, please get in touch! ๐Ÿ™

Iโ€™m celebrating the 10th Anniversary of my crazy-golf inspired sculpture 'Life Raft' by showing it as part of Gallery No.32's Winter Sculpture Park at the former Thamesmead golf course until 26 April 2025 โ›ณ @followers When the Sculpture Park closes, I will be looking for a new home for 'Life Raft', so if you can help in anyway, please get in touch! ๐Ÿ™ ... See MoreSee Less

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Im delighted to be showing my 2015 piece Life Raft as part of Gallery No.32s Winter Sculpture Park 2025, which opens this Saturday 1 March, 11-5pm in the former Thamesmead golf course in London โ›ณ @followers I have a few places on the guest list for Saturdays party, so get in touch ASAP if youd like to come: https://www.galleryno32.co.uk/sculpture2025.html

I'm delighted to be showing my 2015 piece 'Life Raft' as part of Gallery No.32's Winter Sculpture Park 2025, which opens this Saturday 1 March, 11-5pm in the former Thamesmead golf course in London โ›ณ @followers I have a few places on the guest list for Saturday's party, so get in touch ASAP if you'd like to come: www.galleryno32.co.uk/sculpture2025.html ... See MoreSee Less

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On the picket line today with fellow UCU members trying to protect jobs at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee and University of Dundee โœŠ @followers

On the picket line today with fellow UCU members trying to protect jobs at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee and University of Dundee โœŠ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Thanks to everyone who came to our Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion on Saturday 15 February at GoMA - Glasgow Museums ๐Ÿ‘ The event marked a decade since Ellie Harrisonโ€™s Dark Days project, for which the artist invited 100 people to spend the night in GoMAโ€™s great hall as part of a pop-up community ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers

Thanks to everyone who came to our Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion on Saturday 15 February at GoMA - Glasgow Museums ๐Ÿ‘ The event marked a decade since Ellie Harrisonโ€™s Dark Days project, for which the artist invited 100 people to spend the night in GoMAโ€™s great hall as part of a pop-up community ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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