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Levelling the Hierarchy

By | February 23rd, 2020|Art News, Art of Consumption, Squirrealism|

Foraged Materials on wood panel: seagull feather, peanut shells, Garry oak acorns, pine cone, pine frond, peafowl feathers, slate, plastic gems, Garry oak branches, pine cones and branch with red spray paint, wired earpiece, stones, lichen, nut/bolt, rock with paint and writing, ribbon, origami folded paper, bottle cap x 2, City of Victoria tree tag, [...]

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Speculative Futures – RECLAIM Public Artist Residency

By | September 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Made in response to the RECLAIM Public Art Residency, I created a new series called Speculative Futures. __ Yardley’s new works are site-specific and made in response to the local history, present day, and future of land use. Ku-sing-ay-las is the Songhees name for downtown Victoria (particularly the area between Wharf and Douglas), which means [...]

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Reclaim Public Art Residency: Steps Public Arts and Victoria Arts Council

By | August 26th, 2023|Art News|

Reclaim Public Art Residency A partnership between VAC and STEPS Public Art Lead Artist: Germaine Koh Participants: Alison Bigg, Laveen Gammie, Mike Glendale, David Martinello, Carollyne Yardley The VAC is hosting a month-long professional development workshop in August 2023. Reclaim focuses on the use of upcycling art and/or construction materials in the creation of new [...]

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Squirrealism: Psychometry (IIC) in artistic practice. [Online presentation] International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

By | June 18th, 2023|Art News, Articles and Media, Publications|

Multispecies Methods Research Symposium 2023. It was a pleasure to present my paper and research-creation at the International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium (2023, May 8-12), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. "The Multispecies Methods Research Symposium is a unique event that brings together scholars, artists, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, animal care providers, and animal communicators [...]

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Collages: Intuitive interspecies communication and spirit guides

By | March 8th, 2023|Art News, Art of Consumption|

It has been a long time since I've last made a post. The last two years have been difficult, as I was in a primary and secondary caregiving role for two older relatives faced with complex and critical illnesses. I will elaborate on this more in future. But in the meantime, I've been experimenting with [...]

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Squirrel Collection Database Launch

By | June 10th, 2022|Art News, Art of Consumption, Squirrealism, Squirrel Database|

Launched! URL: www.squirreldatabase.com   Squirrel Collection Database, launched Spring 2022. ABOUT The Squirrel Collection Database (#squirreldatabase) is a database of objects, photos, and videos containing squirrel imagery gifted to me primarily from 2007 to the present day. One entry, however, is dated from almost a decade earlier. When my grandmother died in 1998, [...]

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Becoming Plastic at Deluge Contemporary Art

By | February 17th, 2022|Art News, Art of Consumption, Art Shows|

Carollyne Yardley Becoming Plastic Deluge Contemporary Art March 18th to April 16th, 2022 Video credit: Spartan Media Group Inc.   Carollyne Yardley, Becoming-with (detail), from the Sympoetics of Squirrealism series, 2021. Pigment on canvas, 78′′ x 60′′. Installation in Becoming (Final Thesis Exhibition), Emily Carr University, 2021. Photograph by Carollyne Yardley.   Becoming Plastic (installation view), 2022. Mixed media. Documentation [...]

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becoming-Feral publication launch with readings, video, and feral musical explorations.

By | November 1st, 2021|Art News, Art of Consumption, Art Shows, Articles and Media, Squirrealism|

Excited to be apart of this publication. Read online here: http://becoming.ink/publications/2021963/2021963.pdf becoming–Feral a book of beasts. "Eastern Grey Squirrel" (116-119) by Carollyne Yardley becoming–Feral a book of beasts. "Eastern Grey Squirrel" (116-119) by Carollyne Yardley Yardley, Carollyne. “Eastern Grey Squirrel.” becoming-Feral: a book of beasts. Objet-aCreative Studio, Glasgow, Nov. 2021, [...]

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Sympoetics of Squirrealism

By | August 16th, 2021|Art News, Art of Consumption, Art Shows, Squirrealism|

  Carollyne Yardley, Sympoetics of Squirrealism (installation view), 2021. Mixed media, 18' x 2' x 8'. Installation in Becoming (Final Thesis Exhibition), Emily Carr University, 2021. Photograph by Carollyne Yardley. Carollyne Yardley, Becoming-with (detail), from the Sympoetics of Squirrealism series, 2021. Pigment on canvas, 78′′ x 60′′. Exhibited in Becoming (Final Thesis Exhibition), Emily Carr University, [...]

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Holobionts: Making and Living through Squirrealism

By | June 22nd, 2021|Art News, Art of Consumption, Articles and Media, Squirrealism, Synanthropes: Squirrel and Deer Stories|

Yardley, Carollyne. “Holobionts: Making and Living through Squirrealism.” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, vol. 2, no. 1, July 2021, pp. 109-17, doi:10.46863/ecocene.36. https://ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/ecocene/article/view/58/59

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Urban Deer Hunter, 2020

By | January 13th, 2021|Art News, Art of Consumption, Art Shows, Squirrealism|

  Installation view (right) Collaboration with buck who used antlers during the rut of fall 2020 to smash my garden sculpture made from a tomato cage. Buck hair has been left in the corners of the tomato cage as DNA evidence. Deer hair entangled Urban Deer Hunter, 2020. Installation view. Urban Deer Hunter, 2020. Installation [...]

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