Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 4pm
Fri 15th July 2022, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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.
Nolan's time at Heide with Sunday and John Reed shaped him as an artist and his lifelong search for love and the idea of paradise.
Free talk. Bookings essential.
Image: Sidney Nolan, Rosa Mutabilis, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Fri 15th July 2022, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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.
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