Less is More: A mini exhibition by Ellie Harrison, The Barn, Banchory

Exhibition Venue: The Barn, Banchory, UK
Exhibition Dates: 5-6 October 2024

Less is More is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrison
exploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and the
relationship between art and activism.

It features ten works produced over the last decade in the run-up to,
during and since her controversial 2016 project The Glasgow Effect.

An attempt to live a ‘low-carbon lifestyle of the future’, The Glasgow Effect
was based on a simple premise: that for one calendar year Harrison would
refuse to leave Glasgow’s city limits or use any vehicles except her bike.

The book Harrison wrote following this experience, The Glasgow Effect:
A Tale of Class, Capitalism + Carbon Footprint, explores many of the
issues the project provoked. These include: Glasgow’s (and Scotland’s)
comparatively poor public health, and the many ways we must urgently
reconfigure our towns and cities, and our economy so we can all live
healthy, happy and sustainable lives.

Central to the book is a critique of the capitalist system we live in which
‘knows the price of everything and the value of nothing’, whose obsession
with profit and growth inevitably results in (self-)destruction.

Artist’s Talk + Discussion
On both Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October, 1:30-2:30pm,
Harrison will host an exhibition tour and discussion providing a richer
context for the works in relation to the Plenty? festival theme of ‘degrowth’.