Faculty of Art
Sculpture/Installation
Meet the Artist
Harmony
McNish
Sculpture and Installation
“A settler trying to unsettle the foundations of home. ”
Historically colonizers severed the unceded Indigenous land known as Canada to create settled homesteads in the Dominion Land Act. Today urban morphology is mostly shaped by the plots of land that were once severed for agricultural homesteads, while in rural Ontario traditional homesteads are still relevant and are deeded to be family legacy properties. Harmony grew up on an intergenerational legacy homestead located in Kawatha (Anishinaabe name for Kawartha Lakes). Harmony recognizes that the land that she refer's to as home is stolen from the original caregivers; the Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Mississauga, Hodenosauneega, and Anishinabewaki peoples during the Williams Treaties. Harmony begins to reconcile the truth that the treaties that took land rights from the Indigenous people, that benefited her Scottish-descended settler family. As she recognizes that legacies are ephemeral as Nomadic Homestead challenges the potential of unsettling the fixed site of “home” as it literally drives to temporary existences of home sites.
Sculpture Land art Woodworking Installation Using found materials Structural Sculptures Storytelling Power tool Carving
2023, Sculpture/Installation 4th year Group Exhibition, Pulvis
1313 Gallery
2023, Archiving Nostalgia
Great Hall
2020, Kawartha Gallery, Homecoming
Online/ Lindsay, ON
2017, Beaverhall Gallery, Huminality
Online/ Toronto, ON
2017, Kawartha Gallery, Jury Show
Lindsay, ON
2017, Awenda
Ada Slate gallery, Toronto
2023, Sculpture/Installation 4th year Group Exhibition
Gallery 1313
2023, Sculpture Installation Award Ignite Gallery
Ignite Gallery
2017, Memorial Art Award
Fenelon Falls, ON
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