by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 5, 2014 | Art Show, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Hub, Culture, Dear Human, Design, Exhibit, Fabricating, Festival, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Fuzzy Logic, Gallery, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Knitting, Lecture, Maker, Openings, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Spore, TO DO, Toronto Design Offsite, Vancouver
It’s getting close to a decade since I packed it all in: my needles and wool, my sewing machine and fabrics, my mid-level-management career. There was more to explore.I’ve been mixing it up with a wide range of materials (and makers) ever since but even...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 17, 2014 | Art Show, Body Of Work, Carlyn Yandle, Cityspace Gallery, Collaboration, Collage, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Exhibit, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver, Painting, Sculpture
Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 10, 2014 | Art Show, Cityspace Gallery, Domestic, Exhibit, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver
My brief stint as a home organizer was an eye-opener — door opener, to be precise. I got a rare view of the reality behind the doors of some beautiful houses. Often I was the only outsider who had been invited inside for years, for many different reasons. Home is...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 12, 2014 | Art Discourse, City As Site, Display, Exhibit, Gallery, Making, Public Art, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Video
People say talking about one’s work gets easier with practice. I don’t know any of those people. (Glen Andersen photos) I did not sign up for this.Well, actually I did, in my exhibiting-artist contract with the Richmond Art Gallery for the current City as...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 29, 2014 | Aluminum, Art, City As Site, Cluster, Commission, Construction, Creative Process, Exhibit, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Project, Public Art, Rachel Lafo, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement
It’s one thing to dream up an idea for the back end of the elevated Canada Line track and quite another to see that dream come together in a mammoth aluminum sculpture. Metal fabrication at the Select Steel shop, Delta. Carlyn Yandle photo So when I got my first...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 29, 2014 | Art Discourse, Billy Patko, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Douglas-coupland, Exhibit, Found Objects, Gallery, Handwork, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Inspiration, Lynda Barry, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
I would rather watch the little kids in my life play than watch the best TV. But it’s tricky because they don’t like to be observed and if they feel I’m too interested, they are on to me and it all comes to a halt. I have to refrain from the urge to...
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