Maddie Yuille (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in London.
Her practice focuses on painting to explore a sensory depiction of human embodiment. She creates dream-like landscapes in which bodies emerge from and meld with their environment – critiquing the idea that “nature” is a realm distinct and separate from human lives. Yuille is inspired by a re-imagining of the stories of women historically accused of witchcraft (often for being “too close” to nature), and paints utopian images where these women are instead free to take pleasure in their surroundings – swimming, resting, and tending to one another, or else content in their solitude. Her paintings depict a coalescing of human bodies – moments of pleasure, play, and care both between bodies and with the landscape that holds them. Yuille is driven by the materiality of painting; her work is led by an explorative use of paint, in which she works with a mixture of ink and oils, applying and removing the paint in varied ways to create images that vibrate with a sense of irrepressible growth and movement. In this vital landscape both women and nature have agency. She strives to create paintings that have a sense of the organic to them, in which the materials used communicate a sense of the bodily experience of being human.
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