Holobionts: Making and Living through Squirrealism

About the Artist: Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist researcher who lives and works as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations(L?k?????nspeaking peoples). Her research-creation practice is informed by a years-long relationship with native and introduced urban animals whose territory includes her home. She has presented her work in venues including Fazakas Gallery (Vancouver), Madrona Gallery (Victoria), and has exhibited across Canada in Montréal (Papier Montréal), Victoria, Vancouver, and Toronto, as well as internationally in Seattle. She holds an MFA (2021) from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.