Wild Things: The Lives and Loves of John and Sunday Reed

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The Heide Circle is synonymous with the modernist art movement in Australia and, without John and Sunday Reed, there would be no Heide Circle. The married pair, both from establishment families, purchased a dairy farm in Bulleen in 1934 that became the centre for the Australian mid-century avant-garde – and home to several of the giants of Australian modernism including Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan and Joy Hester. The property, which today houses the celebrated Heide Museum of Modern Art, was not just a place of artistic expression but also of radical political thinking and sexual experimentation. The complex romantic entanglements of the Heide Circle in the 1940s are legendary. A new book on John and Sunday Reed, Modern Love, re-examines the legacy of these two towering figures in Australian modernism. Join its authors, Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan – both curators at Heide Museum of Modern Art – as they share their new insights on the loves and lives of this highly unorthodox Australian couple. Hosted by Georgia Moodie.