For Yeldham a painting is not a window onto the world but an instrument (sometimes even a musical instrument) that allows us to go beyond the visible. Ideally it’s also a tool for transformation, a vehicle for self-discovery…
Yeldham is a pilgrim, so enthused and stimulated by his quest that he can never visualise a destination. He’ll recognise it when he gets there - John McDonald, for Child of the Storm.
“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
Born 1970, Sydney Australia
EDUCATION
1989-93 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design. USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021, Hearthstone, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2020, Providence, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2019, Child of the Storm, Scott Livesey Gallery, Sydney
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
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)