Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 4pm
Wednesday 12 October, 1 – 1.30pm Free. Bookings essential.
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.
The tour will incorporate key works from Nolan’s artistic career and include the newly commissioned installation by Dean Cross Sometimes I Miss the Applause. Cross is an artist of Worimi descent, born and raised on Ngunnawal Country with a background in contemporary dance and choreography and studies in visual arts at ANU School of Art and Design.
Image:
Sidney Nolan, Death of Captain Fraser 1948, enamel on compressed fibre board 92.1 x 122.4 cm.
Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra. Gift of the artist to the people of Australia 1974 © Canberra Museum and Gallery.
Wednesday 12 October, 1 – 1.30pm Free. Bookings essential.
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