Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 4pm
Free
Bookings by Sat 1 June
Lucy Trench, Board Member of the Sidney Nolan Trust UK, will present an illustrated talk on Nolan’s life in the UK. Exploring the history of the Trust, the events developed for the 2017 Centenary of Nolan’s birth, the recent acquisition of his historic Manor house, Rodd Court and the plans for the future work of the Trust.
Lucy Trench has worked in publishing and in museums, as conservator, editor, writer and educator. She was Head of Interpretation at the Victoria and Albert Museum, then at the Science Museum and has family links with Herefordshire where the Trust is based and with Australia.
Image:
Sidney Nolan working in the barn at The Rodd, 1986, photo Brian Adams
Free
Bookings by Sat 1 June
The Nolan Collection is an iconic group of paintings from 1945 to 1953 by Sidney Nolan that the artist gifted to the nation in 1974
In August 1978, Sidney Nolan created a series of 31 crayon pastel drawings based on the events of Marcus Clarke’s 1874 convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.
Australia’s most famous silent film, lost for decades and painstakingly reconstructed from incomplete versions and NFSA stills.
The Young Nolan Project is a new initiative where an individual school is invited to work on an extended program and present their resulting art to the public