Kaylyn Hardstaff is an Edmonton-born, Kelowna-based artist. She graduated in April 2023 from NSCAD University’s Fine Arts Program in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since moving to Kelowna in May 2023, she has worked at the Rotary Centre for the Arts as the Educational Program Coordinator. 

Kaylyn’s artistic practice in recent years has been focused on fleeting time, precarious moments, light, shadow and how all of these concepts fit together into her work. Kaylyn has been particularly interested in the idea of home, what makes a space or city feel like home, and how she can use her practice to become more comfortable in a space. After spending the last several years moving across Canada from Edmonton to Halifax, within Halifax a handful of times, and then from Halifax to Kelowna, her work has become very focused on capturing moments of day to day comfort, discomfort, joy, and awareness found in each new space or city. 

Kaylyn has been working through these concepts and ideas through drawing, writing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and installation.

‘23-’24 / 24-25 will be on view in the Members’ Gallery from June 7 - 29, 2024.