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.

CV

2022, The Warren, Witches, Group Exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

2024, The Lavit Gallery, Membership Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill, Cork, Ireland

2025, James Barry Gallery, Fite Faute, Group Exhibition, Curated by Eamond Maxwell and Collette Nolan, Cork, Ireland

2023-2026 BFA Honours, Crawford College of Art and Design, First Class Honours

2026, Crawford College of Art and Design, Secondhand Smoke, Curated by Catherine Hehir and James Hayes, Cork, Ireland