Carollyne Yardley is an interdisciplinary artist, speculative designer and squirrel lover whose body of work entangles the boundaries between human and nonhuman systems and imagines possible futures in hybrid human development. Yardley teases out the unpredictable through Squirrealism, a neologism used in her practice to narrate origin stories of transformation that are not distinctly human. Her oil paintings portray a utopian/dystopian future of surreal beings who emerge from damaged worlds.

Raised on Vancouver Island, Carollyne Yardley has an art history degree from the University of Victoria and a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work has exhibited across Canada in Montréal (Papier Montréal), Victoria, Vancouver, and Toronto (Art Toronto), as well as internationally in Seattle (Seattle Art Fair). Carollyne Yardley has garnered all levels of press in Canada, featured by Canadian Art Magazine, Border Crossings, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, CTV News, CBC Radio, and the covers of several books and magazines. She was also successful in maintaining her registered trademark Carollyne® after being subjected to an expungement proceeding by a large U.S. toy manufacturer.

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