Ellie Harrison

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Toytown

  • 2015 Media

    Dead Reckoning: Ellie Harrison & The Art of Austerity

    24 Jun 2015
    Furtherfield

  • 2011 Exhibition

    Star & Shadow Cinema

    1 Nov 2011
    Wunderbar, Newcastle upon Tyne

  • 2011 Newsletter

    Edinburgh Art Festival / Josie Long / Ha Ha Road

    3 Aug 2011

  • 2011 Media

    Ellie Harrison Profile

    1 May 2011
    Art Monthly (Issue 346 p.16-17)

  • 2011 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.

  • 2009 Installations
    Toytown installed at the Newbery Gallery, Glasgow School of Art in 2009

    Toytown

    The sister installation to Vending Machine, this piece features a dilapidated 1980s kid’s car ride which starts up and offers people free rides when news relating to the recession makes the headlines on the BBC News RSS feed.

  • 2009 Newsletter

    Toytown (Glasgow School of Art)

    13 May 2009

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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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