Biography

Where Awe Lives.

Dana Harrison is a Warkworth-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the feeling of wonder and brings it into the spaces we inhabit.

Creativity has shaped how she moves through the world for as long as she can remember, influencing how she learns, pays attention, and makes sense of her surroundings. Alongside her studio practice, Harrison has spent decades working in branding and graphic design, where visual language, ideas, and problem-solving are part of everyday life.

At the heart of her work is a search for awe. She seeks it out in landscapes and places that strip away the noise of everyday life, bringing that experience back into the studio as the foundation of her work.

Her practice is process-driven, shaped through attention and repetition rather than description. Harrison works with colour, texture, and form to distill what she has encountered into something essential, something that holds the feeling without explaining it.

She creates work to be lived with. To bring something of the wider world in, and give a space its own sense of wonder.

Harrison has exhibited widely, including three consecutive years at The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair in Toronto, and has participated in residencies in Ireland and Alberta. Her work is represented by Dimensions Gallery in Toronto and held in private and corporate collections, including Intuit Inc. She has been featured in New Visionary Magazine.

Statement

Awe as a starting point, a practice, and an invitation.

My work begins with exploration. I go looking for awe in landscapes and places that exist beyond the noise and narrative of human activity. It is the foundation from which everything else grows.

I carry those impressions back into the studio and let them surface slowly. Working with colour, texture, and form, I try to distill what I encountered into something essential. The goal is to stay close to how a place felt rather than what it looked like, and to translate that with care and restraint.

I am drawn to the kinds of wonder that move at a different pace than we do. The things that persist at the edges of our attention, passed by because we are too absorbed in our own noise to register them.

I would like my work to be an invitation to stop, look, and feel what is still there, waiting.

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Exhibitions

2026 Apple Route Studio Tour (group show & Open Studio) - East Northumberland County

2024 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair - Toronto

2023 Kingston Square Foot Show, Tett Centre - Kingston

2023 “Making Warkworth”, Ah! Centre - Warkworth

2023 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair - Toronto

2022 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair - Toronto

Solo Exhibitions

2025 K-Okay Café and Roasters - Warkworth

2023 Plants & Flowers, Royal Service Office - Warkworth

Residencies

2026 Self Guided - Canmore Alberta - Canada

2025 Atelier AiR - Westcove Estate - Ireland

Press and Publications

2023 New Visionary Magazine, Issue 8 - Print Magazine

Representation

Dimensions Gallery (Toronto)

Collectors

2022 Intuit Inc., - Toronto