Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 5pm
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.
Image:
Sidney NOLAN
Rite of Spring c. 1962
Collection of Canberra Museum and Gallery
Monday 19 August: 1–2pm
Free, bookings not required
Nolan is one of Australia’s most iconic twentieth century artists whose life and loves among the Heide circle of artists in the 1940s were at first his idea of Eden but then became his own personal hell
Presented in dialogue with Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise is a newly commissioned installation by Dean Cross
Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the Greeks, reading the Iliad and visiting Gallipoli, so close to Troy. He…
Drop into CMAG during your lunch hour for a highlights tour of the exhibition Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise with our Senior Curator of Visual Arts, Virginia Rigney