HEIDI YARDLEY

_S8A7194_e

"Heidi Yardley has a thing for tarnished glamour. Not the glowing perfection of the digitally enhanced promotional shoot or the golden age of Hollywood, but the tell-tale signs of the body leaking through the glossy veneer. In her oil paintings of female figures, closely cropped in various interiors, this is reflected in part in the muddy tones she is inevitably drawn to, adulterated colours that recall the print technologies of 1970s magazines. This is no coincidence, as Yardley collects books, catalogues, and magazines from this time, using them as analogue source material for the collages she then scans and modifies before transforming through paint."

Jacqueline Millner, Art Collector, 2022

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

DOWNLOAD PDF

WORKS

CONTACT GALLERY FOR PRICE INFORMATION
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 '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
Heidi Yardley 'Wedjat eye' 2025 oil on linen 86 x 76 cm $7,500
Heidi Yardley 'Venus in furs' 2024 oil on linen 137 x 71 cm $8,900
Heidi Yardley 'The world is turning' 2025 oil on linen 148 x 100 cm $12,000
Heidi Yardley 'The climbing harmonies' 2025 oil on linen 107 x 71 cm $7,900
Heidi Yardley 'Passage through the spheres' 2025 oil on linen 107 x 71 cm $7,900
Heidi Yardley 'Midsummer shadow' 2024 oil on linen 148 x 100 cm $12,000
Heidi Yardley 'Glamour' 2025 oil on linen 71 x 106 cm $7,900
Heidi Yardley 'Bitter summer in decline' 2024 oil on linen 65 x 50 cm $4,900
Heidi Yardley 'Just a candle' 2025 oil on linen 91 x 61 cm $7,500
Heidi Yardley 'Posthuman' 2025 oil on linen 91 x 71 cm $7,500
Heidi Yardley 'Trapped in an oil painting' 2025 oil on linen 95 x 93 cm $8,500
Heidi Yardley 'Chakra moon' 2025 oil on linen 112 x 66 cm $7,900

PAST EXHIBITIONS

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

NEWS

IMG_5643

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.…

Screenshot 2023-08-26 at 2.42.06 pm

NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY SPRING1883 EXHIBITION REVIEWED FOR MEMO BY AMELIA WINATA

By Nicholas Thompson

… the spirit of Spring: the mix of kitsch… and old-world luxury… Downstairs at Nicholas Thompson, for example, the suite was excessively crammed with works—to good effect. Heidi Yardley’s sexy lady paintings (Babylon and Design for Scandal, both 2023) were placed on chairs that had been draped with the room’s silky curtains. Think sleazy boudoir.…

IMG_8920

HEIDI YARDELY EXHIBITED IN ‘MELBOURNE NOW’ AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

By Nicholas Thompson

Heidi Yardley is exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria’s landmark exhibition ‘Melbourne Now’, with an installation of three paintings – including two acquired by the NGV from her 2022 exhibition at the gallery . The inaugural 2013 ‘Melbourne Now’ exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten…

NGV Melbourne Now - Eugene Hyland 1

HEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITED IN FORTHCOMING 2023 ‘MELBOURNE NOW’ AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

By Nicholas Thompson

Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, Melbourne Now will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing. The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the…

IMG_2976

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.

Always the same ghost

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…