Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 4pm
📅 Friday 14 June
🕚 12:00pm
🎫 Free, bookings essential
Sidney Nolan’s nine panel Riverbend, usually on permanent display at the Drill Hall Gallery, is currently on display in the Nolan Gallery at Canberra Museum and Gallery.
Riverbend, which includes glimpses of the iconic form of the masked bushranger, has been placed in dialogue with the first works of Nolan’s ‘Ned Kelly’ series.
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 on the connections and relationships between these works – separated by 20 years but connected in many ways.
This is a joint Drill Hall Gallery / Canberra Museum and Gallery event.
Image: Sidney Nolan at ANU, 1965; on the balcony of University House during his stay for the ANU Creative Arts Fellowship. Photo: Australian National University Archives Centre
📅 Friday 14 June
🕚 12:00pm
🎫 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.
A discussion about the changing perceptions and understandings of Australia's convict past and how museums deal with this confronting history.
Australia’s most famous silent film, lost for decades and painstakingly reconstructed from incomplete versions and NFSA stills.