Current Exhibitions
The art of existence
Les Kossatz
22 November 2008 - 8 March 2009
The art of existence is the first exhibition to review Les Kossatz’s contribution to Australian art in a career that spans the 1960s to today. Kossatz’s consistent experimental approach to media and techniques is evident in works that reveal a lifelong fascination with the human temperament and the nature of existence, and a concern for the landscape.COVERS
Fiona Abicare
1 November 2008 - 22 February 2009
In COVERS, Abicare turns her attention to the architecture of the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, transforming it into an opulent interior that is reminiscent of a 1940s Hollywood stage-set. Influenced by modernist art, design and architecture, and period fashions of the 1930s and 1940s, this project also responds to the history and identity of Heide.Hinterlands
Albert Tucker's landscapes 1960-1975
28 June 2008 - 22 February 2009
Hinterlands examines Albert Tucker's new vision of his homeland, with particular emphasis on works depicting the bush around his property in rural Hurstbridge on Melbourne’s fringes; the distinctive Gippsland landscape off the coast of south-east Victoria; and the spectacular Barmah Forest in the north of the state.Order and dissent
works from the Heide Collection
1 July 2008 - 1 March 2009
Order and dissent investigates the dialogue and debate generated by the originality, diversity and non-conformity of a selection of works from the Heide Collection.
