Current Exhibitions

The art of existence

Les Kossatz
Love kite
oil, enamel, tin and composition board
166.0 x 93.0 cm (irreg.)
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne<br>Purchased form John and Sunday Reed 1980
© Les Kossatz

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.

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COVERS

Fiona Abicare
COVERS (detail)
mixed media
dimensions variable
© Fiona Abicare

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.

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Hinterlands

Albert Tucker
Trees I
synthetic polymer paint, sand and bark on hardboard
91.3 x 120.8 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
© Barbara Tucker

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.

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Order and dissent

Robert Dickerson
The Bather
enamel paint on composition board
122.0 x 91.1 cm
Heide Museum of Modern Art Collection
© Robert Dickerson

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.

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What's on at Heide

2:00pm Thursday 8 January 2009
Heide: Making history
Heide I tour

2:00pm Friday 9 January 2009
Exhibition tour
COVERS, Fiona Abicare

2:00pm Saturday 10 January 2009
Heide: Making history
Heide I tour

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Hinterlands

Albert Tucker
Parrots in bush
oil and mixed media on composition board
60.5 x 75.9 cm
Cbus Collection of Australian Art
© Barbara Tucker Albert Tucker's landscapes 1960-1975
28 June-22 February 2009