Heide Museum of Modern Art

A link and a trust

Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan's Rome exhibition

18 November - 20 May 2007

Venue: Heide III: Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery

Curator: Lesley Harding

The first in a series of exhibitions at Heide examining Albert Tucker in context, A link and a trust explores a high point in the artistic exchange arising within Tucker’s lifelong friendship with Sidney Nolan.

While stylistically and temperamentally divergent – Nolan was ‘poet of place’ while Tucker was concerned with the drama and
tragedy of life – the two artists enjoyed a strong intellectual rapport, sharing a fascination for Australia’s beguiling ancient landscape and a preoccupation with the Australian experience.

This exhibition recreates the only joint exhibition the two artists held, which was displayed in Rome at the Foreign Press Club in 1954. It also marks the publication of a new book, Bert & Ned: The Correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan, introduced and edited by Patrick McCaughey and co-published by Heide Museum of Modern Art, The Miegunyah Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing) and the State Libraryof Victoria.