March 29, 2023
Work by Heidi Yardley can be seen in ‘Melbourne Now’, open at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, ‘Melbourne Now’ presents contemporary projects spanning a range of media and disciplines. Featured in the exhibition are three of Yardley’s 2021 works,…
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December 21, 2020
Heidi Yardley’s 2015 work, ‘Void ratio’, is featured in Re-gathering at Benalla Art Gallery. This exhibition brings together figurative and portrait-based works from both the Benalla Art Gallery Collection and RACV Art Collection, presenting a framework through which the community can explore its collective experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Re-gathering’…
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September 5, 2020
Heidi Yardley has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Paul Guest Prize with her work ‘Always the same ghost’. Held biannually at Bendigo Art Gallery, this award celebrates contemporary drawing, attracting entries from all over Australia. This year’s prize will be judged by Lesley Harding, Artistic Director of…
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August 20, 2020
Congratulations to Heidi Yardley and Marina Strocchi who have been both announced as finalists in the 2020 National Works on Paper Prize. Heidi Yardley entered ‘Strangers to ourselves’ and Marina Strocchi ‘The Escarpment – Kangaroo Valley V’. With a long history, this prize attracts leading artists from across Australia working…
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April 1, 2020
Congratulations to Heidi Yardley who has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2020 Percival Portrait Painting Prize with her work Gareth Sansom – Grand Guignol. Yardley’s portrait of fellow artist, Gareth Sansom, was also a finalist in the 2019 Doug Moran National Prize. Established in 2007, The Percival Portrait…
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October 16, 2019
Congratulations to Robert Malherbe, Heidi Yardley and Louise Tate who have all been announced as finalists in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2019. Both Malherbe and Yardley have entered portraits of fellow artists, namely Angela Tiatia and Gareth Sansom. Louise Tate has entered a self-portrait. Facilitated by the Moran Arts…
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September 7, 2019
Heidi Yardley, Ben Quilty, Victoria Reichelt, Linde Ivimey and Fiona Lowry all currently have their work featured in the group exhibition ‘Love’, now open at Tweed Regional Gallery. Curated by Susie Muddiman, this exhibition explores love in its multiple forms. Love 6 September – 17 November Tweed Regional…
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August 9, 2019
Congratulations to Heidi Yardley who is a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award with her work ‘The black veil’. Established in 2001, this biennial award and exhibition boasts a major prize $15,000. The winner will be announced at the official opening on 20 September. Hazelhurst Art on Paper…
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May 30, 2019
Heidi Yardley has been featured in the latest edition of Artist Profile. Deputy Editor Elli Walsh’s wonderful interview with Yardley gives an insight into the artist’s most recent thematic investigations. These include her ongoing use (and subversion) of the female form and her distinct method of ‘assembling’ an image.
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November 28, 2018
Natasha Bieniek and Heidi Yardley are in the group exhibition, A Fine Romance, at Gippsland Art Gallery. Showcasing hyper-real paintings and sculptures, the exhibition examines the beauty and deceit of contemporary Australian realism, featuring works from the Gippsland Art Gallery Collection as well as private collections.
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August 8, 2018
Heidi Yardley’s solo exhibition, Drifters, has been featured in an article by Phil Brown for Brisbane News, which explores how Yardley’s investigation into the countercultural era of the 1960s and 70s has influenced her most recent body of work. To read the article, please click here.
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December 10, 2017
Juz Kitson, Adam Pyett, Monica Rohan and Heidi Yardley will feature in the inaugural exhibition, Imagine, at the new Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria. Curated by Simon Gregg, Imagine showcases the capacity of human imagination through 134 works from 81 artists from around the globe spanning five centuries of…
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October 13, 2017
Marina Strocchi and Heidi Yardley are finalists in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2017. The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) is a national still life painting award that offers a non-acquisitive first prize of $20,000. The 2017 award will again be judged by John McDonald, who has been…
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May 2, 2017
Night Letters is a new series of intimately scaled oil paintings by Heidi Yardley. The work forges a romantic and mysterious link between the female figure and evening landscapes. Both exist in a liminal, erotic space, as if somewhere between waking and sleeping. Moonlight is seductive as it reflects off…
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July 7, 2016
We are excited to share that the following artists have been announced as finalists in the 2016 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. Please click the artist name below to view their entry: Jason Benjamin Natasha Bieniek…
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