Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher whose practice combines visual art with research into interspecies listening, psychometry and urban ecologies. Her ongoing exploration of Squirrealism emerges from longstanding relationships with native and introduced urban animals whose territories include her home. Her work considers toxicity, regeneration and the interconnected lives of multispecies communities, informed by her involvement in urban forest conservation.
Carollyne with doe and fawn. June 29th, 2018. Photo: Anonymouse.
Yardley’s work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States, and her artistic research has appeared in Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities and becoming-Feral. She has presented her research at multispecies communication symposia hosted by the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Sunderland. She holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she received the Governor General Academic Gold Medal, and a BA in Art History from the University of Victoria. She is also a recipient of Sierra Club BC’s Rosemary Fox Conservation Achievement Award. Yardley lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples, within the Cascadia bioregion of the Pacific Northwest.
Yardley also successfully defended her registered trademark, Carollyne®, against an expungement proceeding brought by a major U.S. toy manufacturer.