Moore Contemporary

FINAL DAY

CAITLIN YARDLEY - ‘Relational Painting’

Visit to revel in the materiality of assembled, stitched, folded, wrapped, tucked goat leather and cut metal. Where pattern and edges disrupt the formality of the field and become object.

YARDLEY states:

“Goat leather is not just a surface, it has memory and a grain. When you quilt with it,
you become aware that it is both tough and tender. It holds light in a particular way – it
is matte but not lifeless. It also retains the fact of having once been a body. This brings
something intense and deliberate to working with it. I have thought of goat leather as a
material link to peripheral vision for many years – informed by the goat’s unusually wide field of vision. This idea acknowledges that the connection between things is not always obvious, or even real, but becomes real because I am holding both in view at once.

Many of my projects are built on this, through proximity or through the collision between
one history and another.”

Image 1: External view

Image 2: ‘Relational Painting No. 30’, 2026
quilted aniline goat leather
30 x30 x4cm

📷 Courtesy MOORE CONTEMPORARY

It was a pleasure to welcome members of the Collectors Club to a Sunday conversation with Artist CAITLIN YARDLEY and ANNIKA KRISTENSEN, Curator of Fremantle Biennale.

YARDLEY’S insights into the development of her project were especially insightful and contextual while sitting within her exhibition of works in aniline goat leather and galvanised steel.

‘Relational Painting’ is now on view until 30th May. Catalogue with an essay by KATRINA SCHWARZ, Curator Whitechapel Gallery accompanies the project.

Images: Courtesy MOORE CONTEMPORARY

📍Cathedral Square
1/565 Hay Street
Perth
Australia

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SCENES AT AN OPENING.

CAITLIN YARDLEY ‘Relational Painting’ now open and on view until 30th May. Thank you to all who joined us to celebrate the exhibition.

Thank you Caitlin for your considered project and commanding installation.

In the current issue ART COLLECTOR, April-June 2026.

JACOBUS CAPONE included in the South West Biennial’ Tracework’. Curators, Dr Michael Bianco and Dionne Hooyberg.

Image:
still: ‘7 Cuts to the Landscape’, 2020
Two-channel synchronised HD video

CAITLIN YARDLEY profiled by Katrina Schwarz ahead of her forthcoming solo exhibition, ‘Relational Painting’ presented in the Gallery, Cathedral Square 1st - 30th May.

Image:
Installation view in the artist’s London studio. ‘Relational Painting’ 2026
quilted aniline goat leather, galvanised steel
📸 Lucy Dawkins