Ellie Harrison

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How one train company came off the rails

17 July 2016
The Sunday Telegraph (p.23)

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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.

I’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 ⛳ @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! 🙏 ... See MoreSee Less

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'Life Raft' was originally commissioned by EM15 Venice as part of 'Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf' at La Biennale di Venezia in 2015. Find out more here 👇 www.ellieharrison.com/liferaft/

Find out more about Gallery No.32's Winter Sculpture Park here 👇 www.galleryno32.co.uk/sculpture2025.html

Great to see the piece out and about again 👍

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 ⛳ @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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Best party in town! I’ll see you there!

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 ✊ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Read more about the industrial action here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn78jx4dxo

Solidarity from your RMT comrades, Ellie Harrison

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

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Ten years ago today, close to 100 people spent the night in the great hall of GoMA - Glasgow Museums ⛺ @followers Come to the Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion this Saturday 15 February, 2pm to find out what happened 🙌 Book free tickets here: darkdays.eventbrite.com ... See MoreSee Less

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