Heide is one of Australia’s leading public art museums offering a tranquil, surprising and always stimulating place to visit. The personal Eden of art benefactors John and Sunday Reed, Heide was a celebrated haven for progressive modernist artists and writers. The Reeds settled on the fifteen acre property in 1935 and transformed it from a run-down dairy farm into a fertile creative space. They extended their hospitality and resources to now-famous artists such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman and developed a culture of collaboration, eclecticism and idealism which changed the course of Australian art.
The cotton linen tea towel featured in the above left image, was created to coincide with the Sunday's Kitchen exhibition and publication of Sunday's Kitchen: Food and Living at Heide. The exhibition at Heide Museum of Art explores life behind-the-scenes at Heide from 1935 to 1981, the tea towel offers a direct connection to Sunday Reed with its replication of a page from her personal recipe book.
