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

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 the uncon­scious. Drawing upon visual languages of film noir, surrealism and the occult, Yardley reconstructs and dissolves familiar forms into haunting, fragmented compositions that linger in states of tension-between presence and erasure, intimacy and estrangement, clarity and disquiet. Her layered approach blurs narra­tive and invites viewers into ambiguous realms where the familiar becomes ghostly and the intimate turns uncanny. A Monash University and RMIT Honours graduate, Yardley’s distinc­tive voice has earned repeated recognition in Australia’s most prestigious prizes including the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Doug Moran, with work held in major public collections including National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank and University of Queensland Art Museum.’