What's On
Thursday 24 July 2008
Events
Heide: Making history
Heide I tour
2:00pm Thursday 24 July 2008
Volunteer GuideDiscover Heide's rich history first-hand through archival photographs, documents and artefacts
Tickets: Adult $10, Senior $9, Heide Member/Concession $8
Venue: Heide I
Exhibitions
Order and dissent: works from the Heide Collection
1 July - 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.
When John and Sunday Reed began to collect contemporary art in the 1930s they were attracted to work which challenged the conservative conventions of art-making prevalent at the time and instead embraced progressive modernist ideals, subjects and modes of representation.
Artists whom the Reeds supported from early on defied academic tradition. Personally and in their art practice they emphasised individuality, innovation and the acceptance of alternative points of view. Their conscientious refusal to adhere to accepted norms, while controversial at the time, opened up new ways of thinking and seeing. Dissent was a means by which they could explore complex ideas and express their convictions.
Featuring works from the 1930s to the present day, artists represented include: Sam Atyeo, Moya Dyring, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, John Perceval, Arthur Boyd, Howard Arkley, Charles Blackman, Peter Booth, Mike Brown, Richard Larter, Sweeney Reed, Wolfgang Sievers and Jenny Watson.
Hinterlands: Albert Tucker's landscapes 1960-1975
28 June - 22 February 2009
Primarily a painter of urban life, Albert Tucker created his first pictures of the indomitable Australian outback when he was an expatriate, living and working in Rome during the mid-1950s. Time and distance had permitted a fresh appreciation of the Australian environment and temperament.
On his return to Australia in 1960, Tucker quickly consolidated this change in direction in his art. Hinterlands examines this 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.
The exhibition also considers the artist’s private and unpublicised interests in environmental conservation. In 1971 Albert and Barbara Tucker purchased a tract of land in Springbrook, Queensland; the acquisition enacted an important conservation project and precipitated a further body of work inspired by the pristine ancient rainforest of the Gold Coast Hinterland.
Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition
28 June - 3 August 2008
A long-running campaign to showcase Australian architecture and encourage the replacement of the aging Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been reactivated with Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition. In an open competition, conceived to add momentum to growing support for the replacement of the current building, architects were invited to submit a conceptual proposal of their vision for a new Australian Pavilion. The unrestrictive nature of the project has encouraged some radical architectural solutions and aims to excite the imagination of both the public and the authorities.
The shortlisted and winning proposals are exhibited at Heide Museum of Modern Art on digital screens, housed in a free-standing triangulated structure.
