The announcement that the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation has given $38million to the AGSA has a connection to Nora Heysen. Mrs Ramsay fell under the spell of art while on a visit with her father to the art gallery in 1936, aged 10. James and Diana Ramsay at Government House. Picture: supplied The magic happened in front of a …

STAGE ONE OF NEW HEYSEN ART GALLERY AND CULTURAL PRECINCT ANNOUNCED TODAY 20 November 2019: The Hans Heysen Foundation has today announced that the first step in bringing the new Hans Heysen Art Gallery and Cultural Precinct to life will be taken tomorrow with the release of the Architectural Services – Request for Tenders. James Sexton, Chairman of the Hans …

A large collection of wonderful clothes, dress accessories and other small personal items have remained in the Heysen collection. Many of these clothes are now quite fragile and by the 1970’s the Heysen great grandchildren were using them as dress up items Many of these dresses were owned and worn by Sallie Heysen. Some of the special Chinese textiles and …

Hans and Sallie Heysen’s eight children were well-educated, creative and physically active. A variety of their books, toys and board games plus sporting equipment used for a range of outdoor activities have recently been re-discovered in the old storeroom adjoining the upstairs attic space. Over the next 9-12 months we will be putting a selection of these objects out on …

Selma ‘Sallie’ Heysen was an accomplished needlewoman and sewer who made most of her children’s clothes and many household furnishings such as curtains, hand embroidered tablecloths, table mats and napkins. Hans Heysen’s tender oil painting ‘Sallie Sewing’ still hangs in the house and her original American made ‘New Home’ treadle sewing machine is on display in the separate Nora Heysen …

In association with the events being held during this all-day event at The Cedars there will be a number of special exhibition displays relating to the social and daily activities of life at The Cedars during the first half of the 20th century. For the first time you will have the opportunity to see a selection of objects relating to …

Hans Heysen was born in Hamburg Germany on Tuesday 8th October and so this year marks 142 years since his birth Hans Heysen, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1877, migrated to Adelaide in 1884 with his family. Hans bought his first paint set when he was 14, and later began formal art lessons with James Ashton. He began exhibiting regularly in …