“I spend a lot of time on my own in my studio, so it’s important to be playful and comedic with myself.”
A millennial pink fantasy
Michaela Yearwood-Dan is a true millennial. She jokes that you can see it in the pastel pinks and floral motifs in her work. That identity is just as true to her as being Black, queer, and a woman. But during art school, she realised she was being pigeonholed into particular styles of painting because of her race, gender and sexuality. Her tutors and peers “found it too difficult to understand racial commentary beyond figural representation.” Against the expectation of people and symbols in representative work, Yearwood-Dan revels in the abstract. She fills her canvases with thick whooshes of...
Bio
Michaela Yearwood-Dan (she/her) was born in 1994 in London, where she continues to live and work.
Influences
Yearwood-Dan names Chris Ofili, Hilma af Klimt and Matisse as big influences.
On View
Instagram is Yearwood-Dan’s favourite place to share her work because she can “interact with people and ensure that there is a level of accessibility for a broader range of viewers.”
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