Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art Art—Architecture—Landscape
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Heide Museum of Modern Art began life in 1934 as the home of John and Sunday Reed and has since evolved into one of Australia's most important cultural institutions. Heide, as it is affectionately known, has built a national reputation based upon the vision of the Reeds and their role in the development and promotion of modern art in Australia. Inspired by the Reeds' nurturing of the young artists

of their generation, Heide continues to support the contemporary art of today through its collection and exhibition program.

12/06/2026

Simone Slee: Light Time is in its final weeks! Don't miss your chance to see this captivating exhibition.

Light Time comprises a suite of new precarious sculptures that combine rock and delicately blown glass, photographs and video works brought together in a site sensitive installation that dynamically unfolds and interacts with the building and its surrounding environment.

Join Simone Slee at 11am on Saturday 27 June, for an Art Talk celebrating the final weekend of the exhibition. Tickets available: heide.com.au/events/art-talk-simone-slee-light-time/

Video: Ruby Taylor

Our exhibition Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69, explores the time these three Australian art...
11/06/2026

Our exhibition Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69, explores the time these three Australian artists spent together in New York.

Richard Crichton adapted effortlessly to Manhattan taking inspiration from the city’s street parades, brass bands and marching girls. This example of his work from the period, Majorette #1, 1968, incorporates a models’ face cut out of a fashion poster or magazine, a technique influenced by his relationship with Brett Whiteley. While the collage elements enhance Majorette with a sense of a real person, Crichton’s use of them also acknowledges the influence of then prominent American Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Explore this fascinating period in history which proved both challenging and galvanising for these artists.

Tickets available here: heide.com.au/exhibitions/crichton-tucker-whiteley-the-chelsea-hotel-years-1967-69/

Image: Richard Crichton, Majorette #1, 1968, mixed media, collection of the Estate of the Artist

10/06/2026

If you haven't seen John Perceval: All That We Are yet, this is your reminder 🖼️

In this video, join Kendrah Morgan, Heide's Head Curator, as she introduces the exhibition which traces Perceval's stylistic and thematic development and material experimentation across the first 25 years of his career.

Experience it for yourself until 12 July.
heide.com.au/exhibitions/john-perceval-all-that-we-are/

Video: Ruby Taylor

Heide and Heide Kitchen are offering you the perfect day out this winter.When you visit the galleries during the week, t...
08/06/2026

Heide and Heide Kitchen are offering you the perfect day out this winter.

When you visit the galleries during the week, treat yourself to one of two winter warmers at Heide Kitchen. Alongside your museum admission, enjoy a seasonal soup for $35 per person, or a pasta and glass of wine for $50 per person.

Offer available when you reserve your table at Heide Kitchen online at heide.com.au/kitchen/. Available until 25 July. Bookings essential.

Photographs: Andrew Clark

Heide will be open today, 10am–5pm for the public holiday! With the leaves turning and the grounds speckled with gold an...
07/06/2026

Heide will be open today, 10am–5pm for the public holiday!

With the leaves turning and the grounds speckled with gold and amber, what better way to spend the day than at Heide.

Always Modern: Radical Nurture explores how art and life came together in radical and intimate ways during the early ear...
06/06/2026

Always Modern: Radical Nurture explores how art and life came together in radical and intimate ways during the early early decades of Heide. Among the celebrated artists who gathered at Heide during this time was Mirka Mora.

When she first emigrated to Melbourne from Paris in 1951 she described it as a cultural desert, but meeting John and Sunday Reed helped to transform her experience. As well as being the younger woman’s friend and benefactor, Sunday was both a sisterly and maternal influence.

Sunday (Faces Surrounded by Many Faces) is one of several works Mirka made in honour of their friendship. At the centre is a tender portrait, with Sunday encircled by a constellation of faces that seem to watch over her and evoke the close connections that shaped life at Heide. They form a kind of protective halo, transforming Sunday into a symbolic matriarchal figure at the heart of the community she nurtured.

See this work among many more as part of Always Modern: Radical Nurture on display now in Heide Cottage.
heide.com.au/exhibitions/always-modern-radical-nurture/

A reminder that Heide will be open tomorrow for the public holiday 10am–5pm. We look forward to welcoming you!

image: Mirka Mora, Sunday (Faces Surrounded by Many Faces), 1959, pen and ink on paper, Bequest of John and Sunday Reed 1982 © Estate of Mirka Mora

Join us this morning at 11am for an Art Talk with writer and art historian Dr Traudi Allen. The most respected scholar o...
05/06/2026

Join us this morning at 11am for an Art Talk with writer and art historian Dr Traudi Allen.

The most respected scholar of John Perceval's work, Dr Allen will walk through the exhibition All That We Are and discuss the artist's contribution to the development of Australian modernism.

Following the talk, join us in the shop for a signing of the latest edition of her monograph, John Perceval: Art and Life.

Book tickets: https://www.heide.com.au/events/traudi-allen-john-perceval-art-and-life/

A reminder that Heide will also be open this coming Monday, 8 June, 10am–5pm for the public holiday! What better way to spend the long weekend.

Image: Installation views, John Perceval: All That We Are, 2025, Heide Museum of Modern Art, photographs: Clytie Meredith

04/06/2026

There is only one month left to see Simone Slee: Light Time.

This exhibition sees new glass and rock sculptures, photography and video works unfold throughout Heide Modern, extending Slee's investigations into the uncanny capabilities of matter to evoke notions of lightness and weight, pressure, compression and uplift.

Tickets: heide.com.au/exhibitions/simone-slee-light-time/

Video: Ruby Taylor

Tickets are selling fast for our annual Creative Industries Event!Join us on Saturday 13 June, 11am and hear from artist...
03/06/2026

Tickets are selling fast for our annual Creative Industries Event!

Join us on Saturday 13 June, 11am and hear from artists Badra Aji and Caeylen Fenelon-Norris, designer and maker Nicole Lawrence, and artist, curator and educator Melissa Grisancich, as they describe how they have built and sustain their practices.

If you’re an art student, emerging artist, designer, or aspiring curator, and you are wondering what a sustainable creative career actually looks like, then this event is for you!

Tickets available at: heide.com.au/events/creative-industries-event/

Due to unforseen circumstances, Hattie Molloy and Tabitha Glanville are no longer able to participate.

Images: 1. Melissa Grisancich, 2. Badra Aji, 3. Caeylen Fenelon-Norris, 4. Nicole Lawrence

In acknowledgement of National Reconciliation Week 2026’s theme of All In, which calls for all Australians to commit who...
02/06/2026

In acknowledgement of National Reconciliation Week 2026’s theme of All In, which calls for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to Reconciliation every single day, we are celebrating our relationship with Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, who recently hosted Community Day in our onsite Yaluk Langa gathering space.

This year’s Community Day was a celebration of the continuing creative culture and traditions of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, Heide’s Traditional Owners.

Visitors were invited to learn about the Indigenous history of the local landscape and the role everyone can play in Caring for Country.

Activities included performances by the Djirri Djirri dancers, Marn Grook ‘footy’ games played with a possum fur ball, and nature-based art making.

This day was a powerful reminder of the ways that we can all be All In in our commitment to reconciliation.

Images: Yaluk Langa Community Day 2025, photographs: Machiko Abe.

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