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 visualising her experience of embodiment – the sensorial experience of being, in all it's messy, co-mingling glory. Most recently, she is creating work that explores how it feels to inhabit a pregnant and post-partum body. Her textured, energetic and layered paintings combine acrylic, oil paint, and oil crayon to create corporeal forms that are swelling and bulging, all bellies and boobs. Solid yet wobbly, boundaried but porous; these forms have a weighty physicality, in a process of leaky exchange, as breastmilk and saliva intermingle. She aims to visualise the tumultuous embodied experience of becoming a mother, both through the sense of her own body changing, and the ways in which her body connects with another.
Selected Exhibitions:
2026 March - Memento Amoris, group show at Lido Stores, Margate
2024 Dec - Fleeting Moments, group show at Open 205 Deptford, London
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 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 Feb - Contemporary British Painting Prize, group show at ASC Gallery, London
Awards:
2021 - Shortlisted for the Ingram Prize
2020 - Shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Award
2019 - Shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize
2019 - Shortlisted for the ACS studio award
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