Art Events in Victoria, BC
Thanks to Steps Public Art for including me in the article. Wu, Wenying. “Fieldnotes: Sustainable Practices in Public Art. Beyond a Greenwashed Canvas: Creative Placemaking and Public Art Strategies for Environmental Resilience.” STEPS Public Art, 9 Dec 2024. https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-sustainable-art/ and Fieldnotes: Sustainable Practices in Public Art | STEPS Public Art.pdf Screenshot
Photos by Carollyne Yardley. Garry oak galls created by gall wasp on oak seedlings. Oak galls are plant growths found on foliage and twigs of many species of oak, and are produced by small oak gall wasps. Shapes of galls vary from spherical to urn-shaped to star-shaped to fuzzy. They vary in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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
