HEIDI YARDLEY
"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.
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