“Doesn’t a high percentage of Glasgow do this every year already?”
Ellie Harrison is a 36-year-old artist who was born in London but has been living in Glasgow, Scotland, for the last few years.
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Creative Scotland, a national development agency for the arts, recently gave Harrison £15,000 for a project called "The Glasgow Effect".
By setting this one simple restriction to her current lifestyle, she intends to test the limits of a 'sustainable practice' and to challenge the demand-to-travel placed upon the 'successful' artist / academic. The experiment will enable her to cut her carbon footprint and increase her sense of belonging, by encouraging her to seek out and create 'local opportunities' - testing what becomes possible when she invests all her ideas, time and energy within the city where she lives.
The comments on the Facebook event are mixed, to say the least. Some are optimistic about what the project could do for the city's local creative community.
