HEIDI YARDLEY

Heidi Yardley 'The masked bride' 2024 oil on linen, unframed 140 x 100 cm $11,000

BIOGRAPHY

Melbourne based Heidi Yardley completed a BFA at Monash University (1995) and Honours at RMIT (1999). She has been a finalist in significant Australian prizes including The Archibald Prize (2016, 2014, 2013), The Wynne Prize (2016) Sulman Prize (2014) the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2013, 2011, 2009), the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2019), the National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery( 2020), the Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (2020) and the Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (2020).

Heidi Yardley has been included in curated group exhibitions throughout Australia. She has held two artist residencies in New York funded by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust (2011, 2014) and has been listed as one of Australia’s 50 most collectable artists (Australian Art Collector magazine, 2011).

Heidi Yardley’s work is held in public collections including Artbank, the National Gallery of Victoria, Gippsland Art Gallery, Ballarat Art Gallery and the University of Queensland Art Museum.

ARTIST CV

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WORKS

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Heidi Yardley 'The mystic' 2023 oil on linen, unframed 140 x 110 cm $12,000
Heidi Yardley 'Wickedness prefered' 2021 oil on linen, unframed 140 x 110 cm $12,000
Heidi Yardley 'The masked bride' 2024 oil on linen, unframed 140 x 100 cm $11,000
Heidi Yardley 'Stivale' 2021 oil on linen 154 x 75 cm $9,000
Heidi Yardley 'The last things have already begun' 2009 Oil on linen, unframed 120 x 90 cm $8,000
Heidi Yardley 'Sinners in silk' 2024 oil on linen, unframed 106 x 100 cm $8,500
Heidi Yardley 'Untitled (blue dress)' 2005 oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm $5,000
Heidi Yardley 'Wayfaring Stranger' 2014 oil on board 58 x 50 cm $4,900
Heidi Yardley 'Design for scandal' 2023 oil on linen 55.5 x 50.5 cm $4,900
Heidi Yardley 'Predictions' 2022 oil on linen 50.5 x 45.5 cm $4,400
Heidi Yardley 'Untitled (figure in doorway)' 2006 oil on canvas 50 x 45 cm $4,400
Heidi Yardley 'Without your love' 2019 oil on board 38 x 58 cm $4,400
Heidi Yardley 'Untitled (George’s tree)' 2016 oil on board 38 x 35 cm $3,500
Heidi Yardley 'Untitled (red gloves)' 2021 oil on board 35 x 38 cm $3,500
Heidi Yardley 'Arrival' 2019 oil on board 36.5 x 33 cm $3,200
Heidi Yardley 'Untitled (woman with rose collar)' 2009 oil on board 30 x 38 cm $3,300
Heidi Yardley 'Passion flower' 2024 oil on board, framed 35 x 31 cm $3,300
Heidi Yardley 'Untitled (woman in front of curtain)' 2007 oil on board 25 x 27 cm $2,200
Heidi Yardley 'Sugarglow' 2015 charcoal on primed paper, framed 76 x 56 cm $3,300
Heidi Yardley 'After the world' 2019 charcoal on primed paper mounted on board 60 x 60 cm $3,300

PAST EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED PAINTINGS (2024)
GLITTERED IN THE CAVE (2022)
THE THIN VEIL (2019)
LOST WEEKEND (MELBOURNE ART WEEK 2016)

NEWS

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HEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley’s brief, if attention catching show at the Melbourne Art Fair continues to run for an additional fortnight over in Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Yardley has produced twelve large erotic paintings of female nudes which, in a flamboyant application of visual references, allude to the high Surrealism of Paul Delvaux, Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray.…

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HEIDI YARDLEY IN ART COLLECTOR, ISSUE 115 ‘MELBOURNE ART FAIR – IF I COULD HAVE’

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley in current issue 115 of Art Collector – Melbourne Art Fair special edition ‘If I could have’ ‘Naarm/Melbourne-based Heidi Yardley has established herself as one of Australia’s most compelling figurative painters, mining imagery from vintage media, psychological archives and esoteric traditions to create evoc­ative paintings that explore porous boundaries between memory, identity and…

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HEIDI YARDLEY IN MELBOURNE ART FAIR AMBASSADOR REBECCA HARDING’S MUST-SEE MOMENTS

By Nicholas Thompson

“Each piece of Heidi’s work could be a snapshot from a film or a hazy memory. There’s so much beauty and mystery in every painting which invites us as viewers to imagine the narrative behind the work rather than read it explicitly.” Rebecca Harding

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HEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITED IN ‘SYNCHRON CITY’ AT GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY, SALE

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley’s ‘Femme en fourrure’ is exhibited in ‘Synchron City’ at Gippsland Art Gallery from 6 December to 22 February.   Curated by special guest Cassie May, Synchron City leads visitors on a strange and immersive journey through contemporary art where artworks disrupt and question everyday life. The concept of ‘synchronicity’, according to Carl Jung…

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HEIDI YARDLEY ACQUIRED BY BENDIGO ART GALLERY

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley’s ‘Untitled (woman in white)’ has been acquired by Bendigo Art Gallery. The work was exhibited in Nicholas Thompson Gallery’s presentation at this year’s Spring1883 Art Fair in the Dame Nellie Melba Suite at the Hotel Windsor. Bendigo Art Gallery is one of the oldest and largest regional galleries in Australia, established in 1887.…

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HEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITED AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA AUSTRALIA

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley’s paintings ‘The door’ and ‘Psychique’ are currently exhibited in the 20th – 21st Century Australian Art Gallery at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square. Both works were exhibited at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2022 and acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria for the Melbourne Now exhibition in 2023.…