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Dr Paula Dredge, Head of Paintings Conservation at the Art Gallery of NSW, shares her ground-breaking research on Sidney Nolan’s innovative use of household paint in the mid-1940s and the use of analytical science to reveal hidden paintings and new insights into the artists’ process.
A continuing commitment to new materials as they emerged from industry ensured that Nolan’s technical development was always challenging and innovative.
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Sidney Nolan The Camp, 1946
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
