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Belinda Harrow

Canadian artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ50366084 ↗
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Belinda Harrow (born 1971) is a Saskatchewan based visual artist. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and moved to Saskatchewan at the age of three. She works in a variety of mediums, such as: painting, installation, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and fabric. Her works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally.

Education

Harrow received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Saskatchewan in 1993, a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1996, and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Canterbury in 2005.

Career

She has taught at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand, and was a guest lecturer at both Tshinghua University School of Art and Design and the National Institute of Design. She currently lives and works in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Exhibitions

Giant Bingo (2016) is a multimedia installation that focuses on the similarities between the love lives of beavers and humans. Harrow specifically references the connections that beavers are monogamous, mate for life, and build and maintain homes together.

Awards and grants

Harrow was the recipient of the Royal Overseas League Travel Scholarship in 2000, and the Jane Rounick Memorial Sculpture Award from the University of Canterbury in 2004.

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“Belinda Harrow” enters the record as canadian artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Belinda, Harrow and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Belinda Harrow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.