The Heide Circle
Sixteen kilometres east of Melbourne’s city centre lies Heide: an incubus of Australian Modernism turned museum. It’s story begins in 1934, when prominent art patrons John and Sunday Reed bought what was then just a farmhouse on fifteen acres of land. They lovingly named it Heide after the nearby town of Heidelberg.
Throughout their lifetime, the Reeds invited artists, writers and intellectuals to Heide. They fostered the careers of Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Charles Blackman, Joy Hester and Anne Marie Hall, to name just five.
Heide was not only a site for artistic collaboration, it was also where friendships blossomed, love affairs sparked (and stuttered), and solace was found. Read more about the group's antics here.
