Nicola Harwood is a queer Anglo/Gaelic Canadian artist. Their background is in theatre and performance, particularly collaborative creation, feminist work, queer comedy and community engaged practice. Their most recent work is in painting and interactive media installation.
The body and its joyful and fuckable presence permeates their work while they grapple with history, both personal and collective, with power and pleasure, with presence on the land and with the alchemy of kinship as it expresses in both loving and political relationships. They love to write comedy and tragedy and their work often veers at breakneck speed between the two. For a complete project record see their CV here.
Nicola was born in Kelowna, BC, Canada which lies within the unceded territories of the Syilx speaking people of the Okanagan Nation. They currently live in Vancouver, which lies within the shared ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh Nations.
Nicola has taught at San Francisco State University, the University of Victoria, Selkirk College and currently teaches Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts and in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
They have a long history of work with youth at risk including group home work, foster parenting and many theatre and art making projects with youth. Their human rights practice is constantly evolving and they work to be trauma informed and decolonial.
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