Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
WHEN DARKNESS FALLS, 23 NOVEMBER – 17 DECEMBER 2021
Masterpieces from the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundationhttps://www.smithandsinger.com.au/ Smith & Singer is honoured to present ALBERT TUCKER: WHEN DARKNESS FALLS: Masterpieces from the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Curated by Geoffrey Smith,...
Past Exhibitions
2021 Cry of the Land
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 20 March to 15 August 2021 Curator: Alice DickinsInspired by Albert Tucker’s active support of environmental conservation, this exhibition charts diverse and often moving interpretations of the Australian...
2020 Albert Tucker: Marking the Past
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 29 February to 16 August 2020 Curator: Lili Belle BirchallIn 1952 Albert Tucker travelled to Italy and embarked on a new chapter in his artistic practice. He had left Australia for Europe in 1947, however,...
2018 After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 3 March to 26 August 2018 Curator: Kendrah MorganThis exhibition takes its inspiration from Albert Tucker’s night images, the earliest of which recorded the mysterious lighting effects of Melbourne’s...
2016 A Life in Art: Albert Tucker
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 21 November 2016 to 19 March 2017 Curator: Sue CramerThe exhibition begins with his fierce social commentaries set within 1940s wartime Melbourne, including works from his landmark series Images of Modern...
2015 In Fond Memory: The Barbara Tucker Gift
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 22 August 2015 to 6 March 2016 Curator: Kendrah MorganOn 16 May 2015 Heide Museum of Modern Art sadly lost one of its most treasured friends and supporters. Barbara Tucker had a long association with Heide,...
2014 ALBERT TUCKER AND THE MYSTERY OF H.D.
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 13 SEPTEMBER 2014 – 15 FEBRUARY 2015 CURATORS: LESLEY HARDING & KENDRAH MORGANIn 1944 Albert Tucker discovered two intriguing paintings in an unexpected location—a bicycle shop in Swanston Street,...
2014 We are the Dead Men: Albert Tucker’s War
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 15 March to 7 September 2014 Curator: Kendrah MorganWhen the Japanese bombed Darwin on 19 February 1942 Australians had to face the arrival of World War II on their doorstep. Life in Melbourne changed...
2013 Albert Tucker and Non-Western Art
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 11 February to 11 August 2013 Curator: Lesley HardingAlbert Tucker held a career-long fascination with non-Western art. First collecting masks and sculptures in Melbourne in the 1940s, he later travelled to...
2012 Albert Tucker: Traveller’s Tales
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 15 September 2012 to 10 February 2013 Curator: Kendrah MorganOn his departure for Europe in October 1947 Albert Tucker famously observed: ‘I am a refugee from Australia culture’. Disenchanted with the...
2012 Albert Tucker Photographs: Artists and their Milieu
Albert and Barbara Tucker Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art 25 March to 9 September 2012 Curators: Sue Cramer and Linda MichaelAlbert Tucker (1914–1999) photographed the people and places around him as a personal record—only later at the suggestion of others were...
GRANT APPLICATIONS
The Tucker Foundation has regular funding rounds.
Our next funding round will be in 2024. Dates will announced on this website as soon as the dates are available.