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porary city-based artists, as well as traditional artists from the communities of Balgo Hills,
Papunya, Maningrida and the Tiwi Islands.
Sutton Gallery
GALLERY
( 03-9416 0727;
www.suttongallery.com.au
; 254 Brunswick St, Fitzroy; 11am-5pm Tue-Sat; 112)
Housed in a simple, unassuming warehouse space entered off Greeves St, this gallery is
known for championing challenging new work.
WORTH A TRIP
HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
The former home of arts patrons John and Sunday Reed,
Heide
( 03-9850 1500;
www.heide.com.au
; 7
Templestowe Rd, Bulleen; museum adult/child $16/free, grounds only free; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun; 903,
Heidelberg) is a large public art gallery with wonderful grounds for exploring. It holds regularly changing ex-
hibitions, many of which include works by the artists that called Heide home, including Sidney Nolan and Albert
Tucker. See the Arts chapter (
Click here
) for more information on the Heide artists.
Shannon Bennett's Cafe Vue does the cooking honours (Tuesday to Sunday), and you can eat in, or grab a
lunch box or picnic hamper to have by the Yarra. The free tours (2pm) are a great introduction to Melbourne's
early painting scene. The museum is signposted off the Eastern Fwy.
Carlton & Around
Carlton is the traditional home of Melbourne's Italian community, so you'll see the
tri-
colori
unfurled with characteristic passion come soccer finals and the Grand Prix. The
heady mix of intellectual activity, espresso and phenomenal food lured bohemians to the
area in the 1950s; by the 1970s it was the centre of the city's bourgeoning counterculture
scene and has produced some of the city's most legendary theatre, music and literature.
Lygon St reaches out through leafy North Carlton to booming Brunswick. The sprawl-
ing University of Melbourne, and its large residential colleges, takes up Carlton's western
edge. Here you'll find a vibrant mix of students, long-established families, renovators and
newly arrived migrants. The central Brunswick artery, Sydney Rd, is perpetually clogged
with traffic and is packed with Middle Eastern restaurants and grocers. Lygon St in East
Brunswick just keeps getting more fashionable: it has a cluster of restaurants, homeware
stores and bars.
