This marks the first major survey of the artist since 1992, featuring over one hundred works spanning three decades of achievement.
Tracing Perceval’s creative development from the late 1930s, as he shifted from unsettling portrayals of childhood memories and night images painted during World War II to exuberant imagery inspired by the Renaissance masters and later gestural, vibrant land and seascapes – with several paintings from the ‘Williamstown’ series that capture the lively docks, shipyards, and waters of the Melbourne port settlement.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
21 March to 12 July 2026
Melbourne
John Perceval, Boats and Moons, 1943, oil on composition board, 54.5 × 43.5 cm / Private collection / © John Perceval/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia 2026 / Courtesy Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
