Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s work explores ideas around class, race, gender, culture and nature. Her latest body of work was inspired by personal stories of love, loss and self-reflection whilst remaining playful and light-hearted. Her vibrant style is underpinned by an expansive repertory of cultural signifiers, borrowing freely from millennial culture, blackness and feminism: texting, acrylic-nails, gold-hoops, carnival culture, and an omnipresent flora which evokes propagation, growth and alludes to the intimate, infinite possibilities of the diaspora.
Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Tiwani Contemporary (2019), One English Pound, Sarabande, The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation (2019); New Contemporaries, Baltic, Gateshead and Block 336, London (2018) and After Cesaire/Morden Tropiques, Platform Southwark, London (2018). Yearwood-Dan has recently participated in several residencies, Future Assembly, VANSA Residency, Johannesburg, London and Lagos (2019); Bloomburg New Contemporaries x Sarabande Studio Bursary, London (2018-19) and Organhaus Residency, Chongqing (2017).