SIMONE SLEE

Light Time Heide Museum of Modern Art 28 March–28 June 2026 Melbourne

Press Release

Simone Slee’s Light Time comprises new glass and rock sculptures, photography and video works in an installation that unfolds throughout the Heide Modern building, drawing on the architectural and physical character of the house. Investigating materiality, gravity and duration, the artist’s work extends her investigations into the uncanny capabilities of matter to evoke notions of lightness and weight, pressure, compression and uplift, and the embedded sense of time in what it takes to hold things up or together.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

About the Artist

Simone Slee makes work that has its origins in sculpture, producing installations, photographs, videos and objects that have a performative outcome or potential. Failure, humour and vulnerability continue to emerge as key concerns in her practice; her sculptures fail and fall over, others exist for just a moment as sculptural-thought-bubbles in space. Indeed, space—private, public and institutional—provides the context in which her sculptural gestures are performed. Through this practice she has invented a neologism ‘abfunction ‘to describe the unexpected or surprising functions and effects of objects or actions in art (in contrast to concepts of multifunction or dysfunction).

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About the Gallery

Heide Museum of Modern Art, commonly known as Heide, is a public art museum in Bulleen, on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River around nine kilometres north-east of central Melbourne, Australia. Established as a museum in 1981, Heide occupies the former home and property of arts patrons John and Sunday Reed, who bought the then-dairy farm in 1934 and transformed it into a hub for Australian modernism. Set within 16 acres of heritage-listed gardens and sculpture park, the museum now presents modern and contemporary art across three main buildings and is recognised as one of Australia’s most important cultural sites. Heide’s intertwined histories of art, architecture, landscape, and progressive social experiment give it a distinctive place within Melbourne’s cultural ecology.

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7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen
Melbourne
Australia

Opening Hours

Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm

Heide Museum of Modern Art

7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, Melbourne, Australia

+61 3 9850 1500
http://www.heide.com.au

Opening hours

Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm

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