Accompanying the exhibition Nell: Face Everything, curated by Lesley Harding, this illustrated publication includes writing by Hannah Gadsby, Lesley Harding, Elspeth Pitt and Nell.

Celebrating three decades of practice, the survey exhibition transforms the Heide Modern building into a personal world inhabited by the artist’s extended family of characters and ghostly spirits. The former home of John and Sunday Reed is reimagined as a nest and a sanctuary, a living environment shaped by memory and shared experience.

The exhibition brings together found domestic objects with natural motifs drawn from the Heide gardens, including birds, snakes, apples, eggs and leaves. It presents tapestries, paintings, sculptures and intimate works that reflect the Reeds’ vision of the house as a gallery to be lived in. Within this setting the artworks carry Nell’s reflections on subjects ranging from life cycles and animism to pop culture, rock and roll, religion and art history.

23.5 x 16.5 cm
Softcover
Supported by Creative Victoria