We caught up with the artist at her studio in London.
Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s exhibition that is currently on view at Queercircle, a new space for LGBTQ+ art and artists in London. For “Let Me Hold You” , she has created a sweeping curved floral mural as well as ceramics and furniture, which interprets the gallery as both a sanctuary and a safe space for self-expression.
The artist’s highly personal work also borrows from cultural signifiers of Blackness in the U.K., including healing rituals, acrylic nails, and carnival culture, but Yearwood-Dan reinterprets them through her own individual experience and defamiliarizes them, not allowing them to be simple stand-ins for racial or gendered notions of collective identity.
Installation view from “Michaela Yearwood-Dan: Let Me Hold You,” at Queercircle, June 9 – September 8 2022. Photo: © Deniz Guzel. If I’m not reading there is always something playing. If it’s not music I’ll have a silly chatty podcast like. I like my studio to feel relaxed and homely but also I love to zone out and just crack on with my work with some background noise.
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