Sunday Reed was a passionate cook and gardener, who believed in home-grown produce, seasonal cooking and a communal table. Sunday's Kitchen tells the story of food and living at the home of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most significant art benefactors. Settling on the fifteen-acre property in 1935, the Reeds transformed it from a run-down dairy farm into a fertile creative space for artists such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman. Richly illustrated with art, photographs-many previously unpublished-and recipes from Sunday's personal collection, Sunday's Kitchen recreates Heide's compelling and complex story.
When Sunday and John Reed purchased Heide, now the site of Heide Museum of Modern Art, it was a neglected former dairy farm. At the end of their lives, it was unique among Melbourne's parklands, densely forested with exotic and native flora, with a stunningly beautiful cottage-style kitchen garden the jewel in its crownandmdash;in all, an extraordinary aesthetic accomplishment, the result of fifty years of vision, dedication and sheer hard work. The Reeds moulded Heide into a personal Eden, connecting art with nature and creating a nourishing environment for the artists they championedandmdash;Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Charles Blackman and Mirka Mora among them. Sunday's Garden explores the growing of Heide, and in doing so fully restores the Heide garden into the literature surrounding this inspiring site, its creators and the makers of its myths.
Catalogue accompanying exhibition at Heide Museum. Essay explores points of connection and interchange in the art of two significant Melbourne artists, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester, from the nine year period they spent together. At the time of their first meeting in 1938, the largely self-taught Tucker was making a name for himself as an artist, while Hester was a student at National Gallery School. As their personal relationship developed so too did their interest in European modernist art. They often depicted similar subjects from portraits and figure studies to visions of the human suffering they witnessed during the Depression and war years. Their approaches to art making however, while equally intense, came from opposite ends of the spectrum: Tucker's vision was cerebral and didactic while Hester considered hers `elemental, a deeply personal expression of emotional reality'. Hester increasingly provided inspiration for Tucker, not only as his muse but also in terms of her direct and vital response to the world. Each respected and was influenced by the other's vision and explored shared concerns, including the psychological impact of war, and the poetry of T S Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Catalogue accompanying an exhibition presented at Heide Museum in 2010 of the work of one of Melbourne's best-loved personalities and artists, Mirka Mora. Arriving in Melbourne from Paris in 1951, Mirka and her husband Georges contributed significantly to the local art scene and the city's gradual transformation into a sophisticated metropolis. Her studio at 9 Collins Street became a hub for Melbourne's bohemian set, which transferred to Mirka Café in Exhibition Street and later the Moras other restaurants, Balzac and Tolarno. Mirka's art is characterised by a sensuous, colourful naïve style and an idiosyncratic iconography of recurring motifs that include angels, children, cats, dogs, birds and snakes. As well as painting and drawing she has worked in mosaic, soft sculpture and doll-making. Many of the artworks in the exhibition were once in the collection of Heide founders John and Sunday Reed and are inscribed with delightful personal messages, tracing the development of an enduring friendship.
Exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the work of artist Fiona Hall at Heide Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition One of Australia's most prominent contemporary artists, Fiona Hall is known for her extraordinary ability to transform mundane man-made materials into vital organic forms with both contemporary and historical resonances. This cross-disciplinary survey exhibition highlights her recent practice and continuing focus on the political interface between nature and culture. At its core is the installation Fall Prey (2012)--created for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany--a macabre yet wondrous wunderkammer of trophy-style sculptures of endangered species from the United Nations 'Red List', rendered in military camouflage. A complement of conceptually linked works includes Hall's impressive Kermadec suite of painted tapa, video and sculptural pieces inspired by a 2011 expedition to the unique marine environment of the Kermadec Trench on the Pacific Rim of Fire.
Exhibition catalogue accompanying an exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art. 3 essays discuss the experimental nature of the formative work of Australian modernist painter Sidney Nolan. 1 essay discusses an intervention in the exhibition by Madrid-based contemporary Australian artist Narelle Jubelin which responds to Nolan's famous Moonboy motif.
Sunday Reed was a passionate cook and gardener, who believed in home-grown produce, seasonal cooking and a communal table. Sunday's Kitchen tells the story of food and living at the home of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most significant art benefactors. Settling on the fifteen-acre property in 1935, the Reeds transformed it from a run-down dairy farm into a fertile creative space for artists such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman. Richly illustrated with art, photographs-many previously unpublished-and recipes from Sunday's personal collection, Sunday's Kitchen recreates Heide's compelling and complex story.
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the full story to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Part romance, part tragedy, Modern Love explores the complex lives of these champions of successive generations of Australian artists and writers, detailing their artistic endeavours and passionate personal entanglements. It is a story of rebellion against their privileged backgrounds and of a bohemian existence marked by extraordinary achievements, intense heartbreak and enduring love. John and Sunday’s was a remarkable partnership that affected all those who crossed the threshold into Heide and which altered the course of art in Australia.
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