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Kelly in the Can celebrates the Australian Government’s collection of iconic works by Sir Sidney Nolan, The Foundation Collection, together with Canberra’s Centenary in a fun-filled stop motion animation. The work is inspired by a critique of Nolan’s paintings, that likens works in the Kelly series to a set of images that constitutes a storyboard for a film sequence. [Rosenthal 2002]
During each workshop, children aged 7 to 12 years old, engaged directly with Sidney Nolan’s paintings in the Nolan Collection Gallery at CMAG, then worked on props and costumes in the CMAG studio to transform themselves into the ‘Kelly Gang.’ Ned and his gang were then photographed against backdrops in the CMAG theatrette to bring Nolan’s landscapes to life. The sightseeing tour of the capital is interrupted by a menagerie of characters straight out of a Nolan painting. The ending is a happy one, complete with a cake and candles to celebrate Canberra’s 100th birthday.
A Centenary of Canberra project funded by the Australian Government.
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