At Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide is the name of the six hectare property that was purchased by John and Sunday Reed in 1934, naming it 'Heide' after the nearby township of Heidelberg. They renovated the farmhouse in a French provincial style, transformed the former neglected dairy farm into gardens and informal parklands, and established a kitchen garden for what was to become a largely self-sustaining lifestyle.

Heide became a focal point for progressive art and culture as the Reeds opened their home to like-minded individuals such as artists Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, John Perceval and Danila Vassilieff. Nolan, who lived at Heide intermittently for almost a decade, painted his celebrated Ned Kelly series in the dining room.

It is now a series of three galleries and a cafe all set within a sculpture garden.

A particular highlight was an exhibition by artist Louise Saxton, an incredible series of fragile assemblies of old pieces of handwork, cut out and arranged to duplicate old historical 'nature' artists, usually of endangered species. No photographs, of course, but it was incredible.