Personal Effects

Zac Langdon-Pole, Re Translatio Studii (ii) 2021, bowl fragments and brass staples, courtesy of the artist and STATION, Australia. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Drawing on artefacts from John and Sunday Reed’s Personal Effects Collection, the exhibition places everyday belongings and the tangible traces of life at Heide in dialogue with contemporary creative practices that rework archives, translate personal histories, recontextualise found materials, and probe the instability of memory.

Artists include: Tia Ansell, Darcey Bella Arnold, Kirsten Coelho, Kate Daw, Teelah George, Zac Langdon-Pole, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Jacqueline Stojanović, Isadora Vaughan and Ella Wijt.

When

19 September 2026 – 29 March 2027

Location

Heide Cottage

Admission

Included with museum admission

Curator/s

Chloe Jones

Book Tickets

Kirsten Coelho, Passages 2 2026, porcelain, matte white glaze, banded iron oxide and saturated iron glaze, courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Naarm/ Melbourne, Gadigal/Sydney and Singapore, photographer: Connor Patterson

Sweeney Reed, Keepsake 1977, offset lithograph, lettraset, bequest of John and Sunday Reed 1982

Tia Ansell, Patchwork 2026, cotton and linen weavings, aluminium frame, courtesy of the artist and LON Gallery, Melbourne