BIO

Lori Harrison is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. She initially gained recognition for her textile and furniture design work with notable commissions, including Canada House in London, UK. In 2018, Lori shifted her focus to visual art, returning to her roots. She is best known for her paintings made of collaged and sewn linen fabric that explore the intersection of the natural world and the manufactured world through the lens of entropy and disruption.

Currently, she is examining the concept of the “landscape painting”. What is a landscape during the Anthropocene, where lies the opposing forces of entropy and disruption, and how can landscapes provide instruction, reverence and hope for us all during this time of massive environmental dislocation?

Lori Harrison earned a BAH from Queen’s University and a BFA from Concordia University. She has exhibited her work in numerous juried group shows and won several awards. Her work has been featured in House & Home magazine, Designlines and Toronto Makes. Her work is included in the collections of Park Hyatt Toronto, Madison Group, Earls Restaurant Co. and in private collections across North America.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work examines our complicated relationship with the land. In an era of climate crisis and environmental degradation, I explore themes of nostalgia and cultural frameworks to create awareness of what we stand to lose. Using historical landscape painting references, symbols and representations of the natural world I disrupt, fragment, and abstract these to call attention to what we are doing to the land. My approach is to seduce with beauty and then subtly insert awareness in the viewer with the hope to foster a transformation in our relationship with the earth toward an eco-socialist perspective.