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Dr Paula Dredge, Head of Paintings Conservation at the Art Gallery of NSW, shares her ground-breaking research on Sidney Nolan’s innovative use of household paint in the mid-1940s and the use of analytical science to reveal hidden paintings and new insights into the artists’ process.
A continuing commitment to new materials as they emerged from industry ensured that Nolan’s technical development was always challenging and innovative.
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Sidney Nolan The Camp, 1946
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
For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’
As an emerging artist in the early 1940s, Sidney Nolan returned to his childhood haunts of St Kilda and began…
Over 1982 and 1983 Sidney Nolan grew increasingly interested in the possibilities of working with spray paint on a large…
