Maddie Yuille (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in London. Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School (2019), she has been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize (2019), the Ashurst Emerging Artist Award (2020), and the Ingram Prize (2021), and has undertaken a number of residencies, including the Incubating Residency at Pictorum Gallery (2022-2023), the San Moritz Art Academy Residency (2022), and the Elephant Digital Residency (2021).
Yuille’s work is concerned with our relationship to the more-than-human world and to each other. She strives to use paint to depict a sense of embodiment - the sensorial experience of being in natural spaces. Her palette allows for the conjuring of a world filled with vegetal life, the same earthy colours making up the bodies of the human figures. The figures depicted are often interacting with others, sharing moments of intimacy, exchange and touch. Yuille combines oil paint, acrylic paint and pastel to create works that vary in texture and marks, creating works with a vital sense of growth. Recently, she has begun making abstract landscapes, which draw upon colours and shapes from nature to create instinctive paintings that playfully explore mark-making and colour.
Education:
2018 - 2019 MA Fine Art Distinction, City and Guilds of London Art School
2009 - 2012 BA Human Geography First, University of Bristol
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 March The Songs of Hecate, group show at Pictorum Gallery, London
2022 Sep DELTA GAMMA, group show at Saatchi Gallery, London
2022 Sep Haven, group show with Steingold Contemporary, London
2022 Aug Wilderness Known, two person show at Liliya Gallery, London
2022 May ME2U Bow Open, group show at Nunnery Gallery, London
2022 March The Front Room Show II, group show at D Contemporary, London
2022 Feb An Arcadian Kind of Love, group show at Soho Revue, London
2021 Dec Human Concern, online group show with The Artist’s Contemporary
2021 Nov Ingram Prize Finalist’s Show, group show at Unit 1 Gallery, London
2021 June Top 100, group show with The Auction Collective, London
2021 May The Drawing Room, group show with Berntson Bhattacharjee, London
2020 July A Dream Is Not A Dream, online group show with Purslane Art
2020 April Rooms, online group exhibition with Subsidiary Projects
2020 Feb Contemporary British Painting Prize, group show at ASC Gallery, London
Residencies:
2022 Incubating Residency at Pictorum Gallery, London
2022 San Moritz Art Academy Residency
2021 Elephant Lab November Digital Residency
2021 Vault x Hobhouse Studios residency in central London