the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
- Written by Yves Rees, Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
Artists Matcham Skipper and Myra Gould on a Melbourne footpath, circa 1940. Albert Tucker/State Library of VictoriaThe origin story of Australian modernism often centres around Heide – the Melbourne artistic community where, from 1934, bohemian art patrons John and Sunday Reed nurtured talents such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester...





