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
Join Lesley Harding, Artistic Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art, for a discussion on Sidney Nolan's time at Heide and a tour of the new exhibition Search for Paradise
Join Virginia Rigney (Senior Curator, CMAG), Tim Bonyhady (Art Historian and Emeritus Professor, ANU College of Law), Tony Oates (Interim Director, Drill Hall Gallery) and Oscar Capezio (Curator, ANU Art Collection), for a conversation.
Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the Greeks, reading the Iliad and visiting Gallipoli, so close to Troy. He…
Hands on art making Workshops for children 6 to 10 years of age
Presented in dialogue with Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise is a newly commissioned installation by Dean Cross
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
After completing the first Ned Kelly series in mid-1947, Sidney Nolan’s ambition to address the landscape and mythologies of Australia in a new way significantly expanded beyond his more familiar terrain of northern Victoria
Discover Sidney Nolan’s spray-painted works and explore a range of techniques and materials with contemporary street artist Byrd.
Over 1982 and 1983 Sidney Nolan grew increasingly interested in the possibilities of working with spray paint on a large…
As an emerging artist in the early 1940s, Sidney Nolan returned to his childhood haunts of St Kilda and began…
Explore the extraordinary little-known story of the connection between the Civic Merry Go Round and Nolan's art practice
The exhibition features photographs and costumes from Justin Kurzel’s film, True History of the Kelly Gang, alongside Sidney Nolan’s iconic Ned Kelly paintings that influenced the film
View the world through the eyes of Sidney Nolan, make sketches, take photographs then go for a ride
For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’
Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring the work of Sidney Nolan
Discover the visual and poetic influences of French painter Paul Cézanne and poet Arthur Rimbaud on the artist Sidney Nolan