Image: Zac Langdon-Pole, Re Translatio Studii (ii), 2021, bowl fragments and brass staples. Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Australia. Photo: Sam Hartnett
Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen is presenting ‘Personal Effects’ in Heide Cottage, where the exhibition runs from 19 September 2026 to 29 March 2027. Curated by Chloe Jones, Heide’s exhibition manager, it starts from the Personal Effects Collection: the everyday belongings that John and Sunday Reed left behind at Heide.
Those objects are shown alongside the work of contemporary artists. According to the museum, the exhibition looks at how material things take on symbolic meaning, and at the ways artists rework archives, translate personal histories into new forms, give found materials a fresh context and test how reliable memory can be.
Ten artists take part: Tia Ansell, Darcey Bella Arnold, Kirsten Coelho, Kate Daw, Teelah George, Zac Langdon-Pole, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Jacqueline Stojanović, Isadora Vaughan and Ella Wijt. Qureshi contributes a newly commissioned work.
Several works illustrated by the museum suggest the exhibition’s range of materials. Langdon-Pole’s ‘Re Translatio Studii (ii)’ (2021) joins broken bowl fragments with brass staples. Coelho’s ‘Passages 2’ (2026) is a porcelain piece finished with a matte white glaze, banded iron oxide and a saturated iron glaze, while Ansell’s ‘Patchwork’ (2026) presents cotton and linen weavings in an aluminium frame. From the Heide collection comes ‘Keepsake’ (1977) by Sweeney Reed, an offset lithograph made with Letraset that entered the collection through the bequest of John and Sunday Reed in 1982.
Jones will lead an Art Talk on the exhibition on Saturday 17 October at 11am. Entry to the show is included with general museum admission.
