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.

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WORKS

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Heidi Yardley 'Femme en fourrure' 2021 oil on linen 170 x 117 cm $19,000
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 EXHIBITED AT BENALLA ART GALLERY IN ‘REGATHERING’

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley’s ‘Void Ratio’ is exhibited in ‘Re-gathering’ at Benalla Art Gallery until 20 June 21 . Featuring figurative and portrait-based works from both the Benalla Art Gallery Collection and RACV Art Collection, Re-gathering provides a framework through which the community can explore its individual and collective experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HEIDI YARDLEY FINALIST IN THE PAUL GUEST PRIZE 2020 AT BENDIGO ART GALLERY

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley is a finalist in the Paul Guest Prize 2020 at Bendigo Art Gallery with her work ‘Always the same ghost’ . The Paul Guest Prize is an award and exhibition held biennially that highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, The Honourable…

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HEIDI YARDLEY FINALIST IN THE ‘2020 NATIONAL WORKS ON PAPER’ AT MORNINGTON PENINSULA REGIONAL GALLERY, CURRENT 5 DEC 2020 TO 21 FEB 2021

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley ‘Strangers to ourselves’ 2020 charcoal on primed paper 76 x 56cm The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive which began in 1973. MPRG will hold the prestigious 2020 National Works on Paper (NWOP) acquisitive exhibition from 5…

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HEIDI YARDLEY FINALIST IN THE 2020 PERCIVAL PAINTING PRIZE AT PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY FROM 22 MAY TO 19 JULY WITH HER WORK ‘GARETH SANSOM – GRAND GUIGNOL’

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HEIDI YARDLEY IN ROBSON RAK FEATURE IN ‘BELLE’ APRIL 2020

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Heidi Yardley at Tedesca Osteria, Red Hill, 2019

HEIDI YARDLEY FIRST EXHIBITING ARTIST AT ‘GRACEBURN AND TEDESCA’ IN RED HILL, VIC UNTIL MARCH 2020

By Nicholas Thompson