Upcoming exhibitions

Simryn Gill

Simryn Gill
Paper boats
Courtesy of the artist and BREENSPACE, Sydney

Gathering

22 April 2010 - 18 July 2010

This major solo exhibition presents the work of leading Sydney-based Malaysian artist, Simryn Gill. Featuring objects, books, collections, photographs and text pieces from the last six years, it reveals the artist’s pursuit of meaning through materials, forms and ways of working. An MCA touring exhibition, it has been expanded to include the Australian premiere of Gill’s major work Throwback and additional recent works.

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Sunday's Kitchen


Limoges porcelain casserole dish

Food & Living at Heide

16 March 2010 - 17 October 2010

Through previously unpublished photographs, archival material, artwork and original recipes, this exhibition explores life behind-the-scenes at Heide from 1935 to 1981 when it  was a celebrated haven for progressive modernist artists and the personal Eden of  art benefactors John and Sunday Reed.

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Heide Collection

Pat Brassington
Forget Your Perfect Offering
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

17 April 2010 - 12 September 2010

This exhibition launches  Heide II — originally Heide founders John and Sunday Reed’s modernist home — as the new dedicated gallery space for the Heide Collection. See significant works by artists associated with Heide’s history, including Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester, Albert Tucker, Mirka Mora and Charles Blackman, together with more recent acquisitions.

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Pan in Armour

Albert Tucker
Wild Colonial Boy V
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne<br>Courtesy of Barbara Tucker

Albert Tucker's Bushrangers

17 April 2010 - 12 September 2010

The theme of bushranging sparked Albert Tucker’s imagination in the 1950s after nearly a decade away from Australia, and Pan in Armour examines his distinctive paintings of both historical and fictional characters.

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Charlie Sofo

Charlie Sofo
Birds
Courtesy the artist

I wander

17 April 2010 - 25 July 2010

Working across a range of mediums including video, sculpture and text, Melbourne artist Charlie Sofo makes artworks out of the incidental details of life, finding meaning in simple processes, materials and actions.

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What's on at Heide

Cubism & Australian Art

Daniel Crooks
Portrait #2 (Chris)
Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
24 November-8 April 2010