Christmas at Heide, by Albert Tucker, 1946, Albert Tucker Photographic Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art and State Library Victoria

From left: Sidney Nolan, Sunday Reed, John Sinclair, John Reed.

After John and Sunday Reed purchased their property Heide in 1934, they opened it up to artists, writers and intellectuals. Their patronage provided this generation of radicals, the modernist Heide circle, with an environment that nurtured and stimulated their individual and collaborative creative projects. Sunday cultivated a female-friendly salon, where gardening and craft punctuated a bohemia of rustic domesticity.