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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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Unearthing: art by Valérie Chartrand, Robert Morris, Ben Oswald, Suzanne Paleczny, Jennie Vallis, Carollyne Yardley

By | December 30th, 2020|Art News, Art of Consumption, Art Shows, Articles and Media|

by Steve Newton on December 11th, 2020 at 5:23 PMThe Georgia Straight Read .pdf article for moreDownload Weblink: https://www.straight.com/arts/unearthing-art-by-valerie-chartrand-robert-morris-ben-oswald-suzanne-paleczny-jennie-vallis

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the creative dive with renée leighann

By | December 10th, 2020|Art News, Art of Consumption, Articles and Media, Squirrealism|

Thank you Renée Leighann for including me in your new arts podcast. The creative dive is a podcast that explores the hidden gems in the stories and experiences of artists, musicians, and creative people of all kinds, to create connections within creative communities and to help people learn about the struggles and triumphs of working [...]

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Living Room – Group Exhibition | October 1 – November 30, 2020 | Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver, BC

By | September 25th, 2020|Art News, Art of Consumption, Art Shows, Squirrealism|

Audie Murray, Catherine Blackburn, Marcy Friesen, Carollyne Yardley, and Trace Yeomans October 1 – November 30, 2020Fazakas Gallery, 688 East Hastings Street MediaLederman, Marsha. "Covid-19 masks make meaningful, whimsical debuts at art galleries in Vancouver and Banff." Globe and Mail. Oct 4, 2020 COVID-19-masks-make-meaningful-whimsical-debuts-at-art-galleries-in-Vancouver-and-Banff-The-Globe2Download The eerie objects and compositions are grounded firmly in reflections on [...]

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