In this site-responsive exhibition, Sydney-based artist Nell draws on the domestic history of the gallery and its surrounding gardens, populating the space with an extended family of characters and spirits from across her thirty-year career.
Featuring over eighty-five works, including more than fifty new works, the ‘house’ is reimagined as both home and nest – a place of memory, shelter and shared experience. Found household objects are incorporated alongside natural motifs from the environs, with mosaics, sculptures, tapestries and intimate works exploring ‘Who is home?’ and ‘What is in the nest?’
Heide Museum of Modern Art
11 October to 1 March 2026
Melbourne
Nell, born downside up, 2025, vintage ironing board, hand blown glass, 101.7 × 138.2 × 44.8cm
Fabrication; Glassblowing: Annette Blair, Coldworking: Louis Grant at Canberra Glassworks, Canberra
Courtesy the artist, STATION, Sydney/Melbourne and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
