Introducing Carollyne Yardley
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Madrona Gallery 606 View Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 1J4
Carollyne Yardley, "Anna Banana Squirrel," 2015
oil on panel,18" x 24"
Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist, speculative designer, and squirrel lover whose body of work examines the implication of boundaries between human and nonhuman systems and imagines possible futures in hybrid human development.
"Anna Banana Squirrel" was inspired by artist Anna Banana's bananaology motifs and Yardley's own Squirrealism.
Through Squirrealism, a term used in her practice to narrate origin stories that are not distinctly human, Yardley explores the unpredictable and portrays a utopian/dystopian future of surreal beings who emerge from damaged worlds. Her work urges viewers to reimagine how we share space with different species as cities expand and spread out into the natural landscape. Yardley hopes to open a dialogue through her work about environment and space, and our ability to empathize and consider non-humans in the the equation.