In her most personal work to date, third-generation gallerist and art curator Lily Mora explores the archives of her late grandmother, French-born Australian artist Mirka Mora, for a new show at the Heide Museum of Modern Art.Always Modern: Radical Nurture looks at the pioneering artists who shaped Australian modernism, known as the Heide Circle.These artists were rebels united by a communal cause who gathered at Heide, a former dairy farm on the Yarra River flood plain at Bulleen owned by John and Sunday Reed, where they nurtured each other's creativity and produced many of their most famous works.Mirka Mora was part of this tight-knit bohemian circle in the 50s and 60s, scorning traditional domesticity in favour of a free-thinking way of life.Decades later, it has drawn the interest of Mirka's granddaughter, Lily."I wanted to look at the environment the artists created at Heide, and how those conditions led to the birth of Australian modernism," she says.The exhibition features more than 60 works from the Heide collection and the estate of Mirka Mora, who died in 2018, aged 90 When Mirka arrived in Australia with her husband Georges in 1951, the pair quickly became close to the Reeds, establishing a friendship that would last 30 years.Lily has always been fascinated by the Reeds and the generous support they gave to the artists who gravitated to Heide."Discovering how radical they were in nurturing that community intrigues me to this day," she says."Sometimes it was about collecting artists' work, but other times they provided food and a place to stay for artists who they believed in