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Harmony McNish is a sculptural artist who bases her practice around her experiences of growing up on her family’s intergenerational homesteaded property, in Kawartha Lakes. Within her art, she explores rural practices, such as mushroom foraging and settler architecture as she self-discovers her Scottish heritage roots.

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Clearance of Romanticized Dome Perspectives
Clearance of Romanticized Dome Perspectives

Digital Media

Clearance of Romanticized Dome Perspectives

A digital rendering of a dome in a deforested location

Connecting to Severance(d) Land
Connecting to Severance(d) Land

Sculpture

Connecting to Severance(d) Land

What is (y)our relationship to the land?

Homestead Out Building: Puffball Dome
Homestead Out Building: Puffball Dome

Sculpture

Homestead Out Building: Puffball Dome

A sculptural structure inspired by a puffball mushroom.

Mushroom Field Study
Mushroom Field Study

Sculpture

Mushroom Field Study

Mushroom Field Study is a series of hand-painted wood carvings to documentation the diversity of mushrooms found on a fall foray.

Nomadic Homestead
Nomadic Homestead

Sculpture

Nomadic Homestead

A trailered structural sculpture proposed to be a future artist residency. Built conceptually to vessel the essence of home as spaces of belonging become temporary home(s). Nomadic Homestead a dedication to reconciliation that legacy homesteaded... More

Not My Land
Not My Land

Video

Not My Land

Not My Land is an ephemeral gesture of trying to "unmark" the ownership of deeded unceded land.

Rural Night
Rural Night

Installation

Rural Night

Beer bottles collected and hung on a chain link fence strung in a maple tree to display the constellation Orion. Orion is the only constellation that should be seen every night at any location in the world, but unfortunately light pollution... More

Topography Homestead Quilts
Topography Homestead Quilts

Textiles

Topography Homestead Quilts

Homestead quilts are topographical representations of mine and my partner's family intergenerational homesteads. The Quilts are joined by cedar rail buttons and symbolize our marriage and the coming together of two bodies of land.

Trapped in Williams 1923 Treaty
Trapped in Williams 1923 Treaty

Sculpture

Trapped in Williams 1923 Treaty

A fox trap permanently fixed closed and covered in ripped layers of the Williams Treaty document that claimed the trapping, fishing, and hunting rights of the Kawatha (Kawartha Lakes) area.

Windmill
Windmill

Sculpture

Windmill

When the windmill encounters an environment of high winds an alternator powered from extreme winds powers a tiny light bulb.

Work by

Harmony McNish

Sculpture and Installation

“A settler trying to unsettle the foundations of home. ”