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 work grapples 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.
Nicola was born in Kelowna, BC, Canada which lies within the unceded territories of the Syilx speaking people of the Okanagan Nation. They have lived throughout the Interior, including in Nelson and in Williams Lake. They currently live and work 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 most recently at Kwantlen Polytechnic University where they have taught Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts and in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program.
They have a long history of work with youth at risk including group home work, foster parenting and many theatre and art making projects. They are currently working with incarcerated citizens as an artist in the prison system.
Their human rights practice is constantly evolving and they work to be trauma informed, intersectional and decolonial.
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