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Leaders, Lecturers & Tour Managers

Richard Heathcote

Richard Heathcote has been involved in managing and interpreting Australian historic houses and gardens for over four decades. These include Como and Rippon Lea in Melbourne and Carrick Hill in Adelaide where, as both director and curator, he presented art exhibitions, made video documentaries and authored books on visual arts and heritage. He presented for ABC TV’s The New Eden – a six part series tracing the evolution of the Australian garden, and has broadcast and published on heritage buildings and gardens.

He is a graduate of the renowned Attingham Trust Summer School for the study of the English Country House and its Collections and also attended the Royal Collections Studies course based at Windsor Castle. He recently completed a term as National Chair of the Australian Garden History Society and is an accomplished armchair gardener.

Publications
  • Adrian Feint – Cornucopia, Wakefield Press 2009
  • ‘La Trobe and the English County House’, Latrobeana, November 2010
  • ‘Lost Gardens of Adelaide’, AGHS Journal, January 2010
  • Carrick Hill, a Portrait, Wakefield Press 2011
Past Tours

Richard first joined ASA in 2006 and has since led numerous ASA tours to Britain and Australia including:

  • Tasmania: History, Art, Historic Homesteads & Gardens (2022-2024)
  • Art, Gardens and Heritage Homes of South Australia: From the Clare Valley to the Coorong (2022-2024)
  • Cornwall, Devon, South Wales & The Wye: Picturesque Coasts and Country Life (2023)
  • Garden Masterpieces of England and the Chelsea Flower Show (2016-2018)
  • Great Castles, Country Houses & Gardens of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Wales (2015-2017)
  • Houses and Gardens of Southern England & the Chelsea Flower Show (2013)
  • Great Houses and Gardens of East Anglia (2009, 2012 & 2018)
  • From Great Houses to village Greens: the Making of the English Landscape (in association with the National Trust of Victoria) (2006)
Upcoming tours