Born in Nigeria, educated in England, Yeside Linney retired from teaching English at
secondary level twelve years ago. She is a mostly self-taught, Surrey based artist with her
love of the countryside being the strongest influence on her work. She focuses primarily on semi-representational landscapes and dynamic abstracts which often incorporate figures.
She is also using these to develop an ongoing visual autobiography, examining sense of
identity through the conflict of her British education and her denied Nigerian heritage.
Yeside works mainly in acrylics and mixed media. Her use of colour and textures denote the tensions in themes explored.
Despite breaking on to the art scene four years ago she has had considerable success:
awarded Runner Up in the 2021 Surrey Artist of the Year competition. She received national recognition winning, both The Euan Millar Abstract Prize and The Susan Angoy Prize for an Artist of Black and Caribbean Heritage in The Woman in Art Award 2022. She has exhibited with established artists in Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey and at the TUC Congress Hall as part of the Windrush 75 celebrations. Last year, she was invited by the founder of Hospital Rooms charity to contribute work for auction by Bonhams at Hauser & Wirth, Saville Row.
Yeside was also a selected artist in two London exhibitions for Black History Month, 2023
resulting in work being acquired for the art collection of a global law firm. She exhibits
mainly in London.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
'Black Joy! Up Close and Personal', Hastings Museum & Gallery, Hastings (2024)
'Art & Soul', Artful Gallery, Surrey (2024)
'Farnham Art Group', Farnham Pottery (2024)
'Empower Her Exhibition', CasildArt, London (2024)
'In My Mind's Eye - Winter Exhibition', West Horsley Place, West Horsley (2023)
'Black British Art Team - Saluting our Sisters', Willkie Farr & Gallagher, London (2023)
'ArtCan Home', Downstairs at The Department Store, London (2023)
'Movements that Matter - Black History Month', Colt Technologies, London (2023)
'Samarvians', Arkley Fine Art Gallery, Hitchen (2023)
'Holding Space', Hauser & Wirth, London (2023)
'In My Mind's Eye - Summer Exhibition', West Horsley Place, West Horsley (2023)
'Roots, Culture, Identity', Trades Union Congress, London (2023)
'Power of Pencil', ArtCan, Online (2023)
'Walking the Line', House of Smalls, Chipping Campden (2023)
'2024 Exhibition', AppArt, Surrey (2023)
'ArtCan Suna - Legacy Exhibition', The Crypt Gallery, London (2022)
'Art and Soul', The Artful Gallery, Haselmere (2022)
'Women in Art: Emerging Woman Painter Prize Exhibition', Lauderdale House, London (2022)
'2022 Exhibition', AppArt, Surrey (2022)
'Heartlands', Watts Gallery, Surrey (2022)
'Art Wing Group Exhibition', Farnham Pottery, Surrey (2021)
'Surrey Contemporaries', Denbies Wine Estate, Surrey (2021)
'Genesis, The Holy Art at Hackney Studios, London (2021)
AWARDS
The Euan Millar Abstract Prize, Women in Art Prize Awards (2022)
The Susan Angoy Prize for an Artist of Black and Caribbean Heritage,, Women in Art Prize Awards (2022)
Surrey Artist of the Year (Runner Up), New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey (2021)
EDUCATION
1969 - 72 Homerton College Cambridge
1975 - 78 Open University: BA Humanities