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Friendship’s rhyme and reason
Nearest & Dearest
Poetic trio
Inside Heide’s lives
It's Complicated
Happiness to heartache
Supporters
$5,000 - $9,999
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2012-13 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.
Robin Eley
More about In the flesh artists
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.
2015-17 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.
Donors
$10,000 - $49,999
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Storytelling
General content
The fourth row of paintings interweave Ngarranggarni, memories, relationships and Country.
Skin names
General content
The first row of paintings depict stories relating to kinship, introducing significant women relatives.
Ngarranggarni
General content
The third row of paintings come from Ngarranggarni (Dreaming).
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
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Zhang Xiaogang
Featured Artists
Born 1958, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Faces of war
Lecture, 14 May 2011
General content
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.
The art of Inner Worlds
Lecture, 7 May 2011
General content
Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.
2023 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.
Inner Worlds and psychoanalysis
Lecture, 4 June 2011
General content
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.