carollyne - Carollyne Yardley - Artist and Researcher Contemporary Art Squirrealism Canadian Fine Art

Urban Forest and Natural Assets (LiDAR) update for Draft OCP “Victoria 2050”
Urban Forest and Natural Assets (LiDAR) update for Draft OCP “Victoria 2050”

Urban Forest and Natural Assets (LiDAR) update for Draft OCP “Victoria 2050”

By carollyne|2025-03-16T00:26:17-07:00March 16th, 2025|Publications|

Presentation: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 6:30 P.M. Council Chambers E. Request to Address Council E.7 Carollyne Yardley: Urban Forest and Natural Assets (LiDAR) update for Draft OCP "Victoria 2050" Video Link: https://pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=22a0de46-6b14-4887-83fe-114fa79ced8d&Agenda=Merged&lang=English&Item=29&Tab=attachments Documents: Presentation Notes - Urban Tree Canopy (.pdf_ Presentation Slides (.pdf) Slide 1 – The City of Victoria has collected urban tree canopy data over [...]

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Sustainable Practices in Public Art, Steps Public Art
Sustainable Practices in Public Art, Steps Public Art

Sustainable Practices in Public Art, Steps Public Art

By carollyne|2025-03-12T13:01:42-07:00March 12th, 2025|Art News, Art of Consumption, Articles and Media|

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

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VCAN Community Mapping Project
VCAN Community Mapping Project

VCAN Community Mapping Project

By carollyne|2025-03-16T00:39:57-07:00March 10th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Screenshot The VCAN Community Mapping Project was supported by the City of Victoria's My Great Neighbourhood Grant (Resilience), and was conducted on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, known today as the Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations. This initiative focused on the Kwetlal food system, also known by it’s colonial [...]

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Garry oak gall ink, research-creation
Garry oak gall ink, research-creation

Garry oak gall ink, research-creation

By carollyne|2025-02-18T21:19:01-07:00September 30th, 2024|Art News, Art of Consumption|

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 [...]

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Available works in Vancouver at Fazakas Gallery
Available works in Vancouver at Fazakas Gallery

Available works in Vancouver at Fazakas Gallery

By carollyne|2025-02-18T21:24:38-07:00October 1st, 2023|Art of Consumption|

Corvus, 48" diameter, oil on panel by Carollyne Yardley available at Fazakas Gallery @fazakasgallery #carollyne #carollyneyardley #seattleart #yvrarts #yvr #arttoronto #artcollector #squirrealism #birdmask #crow #crowmask #raven Sun Squirrel 2, oil on panel, 40″ x 24″, 2016 Shapeshifting: Rande Cook and Carollyne Yardley at Fazakas Gallery April 27 to May [...]

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Reclaim Public Artist Residency: Speculative Futures
Reclaim Public Artist Residency: Speculative Futures

Reclaim Public Artist Residency: Speculative Futures

By carollyne|2025-03-12T12:54:37-07:00September 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Media: 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 Made in response to the RECLAIM Public Art Residency, I created a new series called Speculative [...]

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

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

By carollyne|2024-12-04T13:10:56-07:00August 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.
Squirrealism: Psychometry (IIC) in artistic practice. [Online presentation] International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

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

By carollyne|2024-12-04T13:10:56-07:00June 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
Collages: Intuitive interspecies communication and spirit guides

Collages: Intuitive interspecies communication and spirit guides

By carollyne|2024-12-04T13:10:56-07:00March 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
Squirrel Collection Database Launch

Squirrel Collection Database Launch

By carollyne|2024-12-04T13:10:57-07:00June 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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