Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Closed for Summer Holiday Shutdown - will reopen 28/12/24
Monday 19 August: 1–2pm
Free, bookings not required
Explore the new Nolan Collection exhibition with Senior Curator Virginia Rigney in conversation with Mark Fraser, Curator for the estate of Lady Nolan, widow of Sir Sidney Nolan. This conversation will reflect on the legacy of the works on display including the recent acquisition of the Rite of Spring and the continuing resonance and interest in Nolan’s work.
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Sidney NOLAN
Rite of Spring c. 1962
Collection of Canberra Museum and Gallery
Monday 19 August: 1–2pm
Free, bookings not required
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