Bio

JOSHUA YELDHAM

Born 1970, Sydney

“Drawing from a deep spiritual affiliation with the land and a reverential love of nature, Joshua Yeldham’s art practice forms a complex interplay between narrative and myth, imagination and experience. Working across painting, photography, drawing and sculpture, the artist has developed a singular aesthetic that often conflates these various mediums, such as his characteristic oil paintings with sculptural assemblages on board or his pierced and carved photographs. His distinctive visual language fuses the physical elements of the landscape with the metaphysical modalities of history and mythology.”

Joshua Yeldham has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally. Recently awarded the prestigious Nancy Fairfax Artist Residency, he created new works exhibited in association with his retrospective exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery (2017). Yeldham has been a finalist in numerous prestigious awards including the Wynne Prize (2019, 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009), Archibald Prize (2013), Sulman Prize (2006, 1998) and Mosman Art Prize (2005, 2003) and in 2015 he participated in the prestigious London Art Fair, ART15. Yeldham’s work is held in many important collections including Mosman Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Australian Stock Exchange, University of Wollongong and BHP Billiton Collection, as well as numerous private collections in Australia and overseas.


EDUCATION

1989-93 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design. USA

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 In Return, Arthouse Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Garden of Ruins, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2021 Hearthstone, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2020 Providence , Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2019 Child of the Storm, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Endurance, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2017 Endurance, Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence, Tweed River Regional Gallery, NSW
2017 Surrender, Tweed River Regional Gallery, NSW
2016 Rishi, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 The Need of the Time, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 Owls of Kyoto, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2015 Surrender, Art15 Art Fair, London, Cat Street Gallery
2014 Surrender, Survey Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2013 Surrender Tree, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2012 The Tongue Has No Bone, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Two Rivers, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 River Song, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2010 River Music, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Child Of The Moon, Hawkesbury River, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Hawkesbury River, Motherland, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2007 Hawkesbury River - Death Bird Series, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Hawkesbury River, Melbourne Art Fair, Art House Gallery
2006 Hawkesbury River, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2005 Bird Nest Diaries, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
2004  Bird Nest Diaries, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2003  The Clay Brothers - A Prayer for Fertility, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
2003  A Prayer for Fertility, Sydney Art Fair, Fox Studios
2002 Solitude's Bride Series, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2002 Solitude's Bride Series, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2001  Eucalyptus, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1999 Colo River, Art House Gallery, Melbourne
1999  Solitude & Prayer, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1998 Paradise is a Bird, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1997 The Hunger Artist, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1996  Viola and the Emu Catcher, Art House Gallery, Sydney


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2023 NGV Triennial, NGV International, Melbourne, Victoria
2022 Summer, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021 Summer Salon, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2020 Portraits Project, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW
Renewal, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2019 Love, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW
Scott Livesey Galleries at Sydney Contemporary, NSW
2018 Arthouse Gallery at Sydney Contemporary, NSW
Cabinets of Curiousity, Installation with Sibella Court, Rigg Design Prize, NGV, Victoria
2017 Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
2017 2016 Cutting Edge - 21 St Century Photography - Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria
2016 Ku-ring-gai pH: art + science project, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2015 The Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Wonderworks, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 Wattle - Australian Artists, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Hong Kong Art Fair, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Group Show ‘08, Scott Livisey Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Sulman prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery
2005 Selected, Mosman Art Prize, New South Wales
2003  Biennial Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Sydney
2003 Selected, Mosman Art Prize, New South Wales
2003 Ned Kelly Framed, The National Trust of Australia, S. H. Ervin Gallery
2000  Art House Gallery, Biennial Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne.
1999  An Affair to Remember, Art Sauce, Singapore.
1997  A Taste in Art: Next Generation of Great Australian Artists, Sotheby's Sydney
1997  Zoo, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1997 Westpac Art Awards, Skeggs Redlands, Sydney
1997  Tattersall's Landscape Art Awards, Brisbane, Queensland
1996  Australian Artists Exhibition, Cranbrook School, Sydney
1996  Teresa Burns Exhibition of Australian Artists, Westpac, Sydney


AWARDS & PRIZES

2021, Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 
2020, Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 
2019 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2018 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2017 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2016 Redlands Prize, Sydney (Second place)
2015 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2014 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2013 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2013 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2012 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2010 Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2009 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005  Mosman Art Prize, New South Wales
2003  Mosman Art Prize, New South Wales
2002  Universities and Schools Club Prize, Sydney
2000  Commission, Australian Stock Exchange, Sydney
1998  Selected Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1995 Australian Young Achiever Awards, New South Wales State Finalist, Career Achievement Award, (Arts Division), The Queen's Trust Award
1993 Alumni award for outstanding achievement, Rhode Island School of Design, USA


PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Tweed River Regional Gallery Collection
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Hawkesbury River Regional Gallery (on loan)