Bio
b. Waco, TX 1989
Working in Cork, Ireland
Harrison Connally was born in Texas, raised in a forest, and became best friends with boredom and imagination. As a young adult, he returned to the forest of his childhood to live off-grid in a yurt for two years. This time initiated a re-integration with nature that inspires the core of Harrison's practice today.
Harrison’s work is motivated by intimacy with site-specific nature. Now living in Ireland, Harrison’s work establishes new relationships with Irish nature through its botany and specific sites near his home in West Cork.
Artist Statement
I am a sculptor who works with botanical materials and digital media to inspire personal intimacy, or “kinship,” with nature. My work reflects both perspectives of this kinship through installation and hand-made objects—the installations as the land’s perspective and the objects as my own.
I hand-harvest materials to highlight the instinct required to know what to take, how to take, and what to leave alone. I then process the material myself, carefully dehydrating, grinding, preserving, or distilling to maximize the use of smaller sample sizes.
Inspired by my experience living off-grid for two years in a forest in Texas, USA, my conceptual themes focus on how our species goes from the process of inspiration to creating monuments. I also focus on methods from the past for environmental futures, understanding nature as both subject and material, and reawakening that personal intimacy with nature that has been lost through our species becoming domesticated.
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Education:
2023-2026 BFA Honours, Crawford College of Art & Design (First Class Honours), Cork, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 Secondhand Smoke, Crawford College of Art & Design Degree Show, Cork, Ireland
2025 Fite Faute, James Barry Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2024 Members Exhibition, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2024 Textiles Exhibition, Cork City Council Library, Cork, Ireland
2022 Witches Exhibition, The Warren, Nashville Tennessee, USA
Residencies:
2026 CCAD Moving Image Residency, Cork, Ireland
2022 Lorelumin Artist Residency, Nashville, TN, USA
Awards:
2026 RDS VAA Longlisted Artist
2026 Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award Shortlisted
2026 Cork City Council Purchase Prize
2026 GOMA Exhibition Award
2026 James Barry Exhibition Award
2026 MTU Purchase Prize
2026 Backwater Artist Membership Award
2026 Sample Studios Membership Award