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2004

Friendship’s rhyme and reason

Poetic trio

Inside Heide’s lives

Happiness to heartache

2000

2009

Donors

1999

Benefactors

Robin Eley

Robin Eley studied Fine Arts at Westmont College, USA and began his career as a professional illustrator. Eley was a finalist in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize in 2010 and his work was Highly Commended in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 2010 and 2011.

Storytelling

The fourth row of paintings interweave Ngarranggarni, memories, relationships and Country.

Supporters

Skin names

The first row of paintings depict stories relating to kinship, introducing significant women relatives.

Ngarranggarni

The third row of paintings come from Ngarranggarni (Dreaming).

Zhang Xiaogang

Born 1958, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.

Faces of war

Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.

Kaylene Whiskey’s portrait of Cathy Freeman

Kaylene Whiskey’s portrait of Cathy Freeman winning Gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics to become part of the National Portrait Collection. Specially commissioned for the current survey exhibition Super Kaylene Whiskey, the three-panelled series depicts Cathy Freeman AC as she lights the torch, runs and wins Gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.