19 Feb 2026 – 22 Feb 2026

MAF Solo presentation with Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

Melbourne-based Heidi Yardley’s evocative paintings and drawings explore the porous boundaries between memory, identity and the unconscious. Mining imagery from vintage media and esoteric traditions, she reconstructs and dissolves familiar forms into haunting, fragmented compositions. Drawing upon the visual languages of film noir, surrealism and the occult, Yardley’s images linger in states of tension—between presence and erasure, intimacy and estrangement, clarity and disquiet. Her layered compositions blur clarity and dissolve narrative, inviting the viewer into an ambiguous realm where the familiar becomes ghostly and the intimate becomes uncanny. Yardley’s paintings are not static depictions, but thresholds—spaces where sensuality, absence, and psychological resonance merge into something quietly disarming.