Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 5pm

Monday 19 August: 1–2pm
Free, bookings not required
Explore the new Nolan Collection exhibition with Senior Curator Virginia Rigney in conversation with Mark Fraser, Curator for the estate of Lady Nolan, widow of Sir Sidney Nolan. This conversation will reflect on the legacy of the works on display including the recent acquisition of the Rite of Spring and the continuing resonance and interest in Nolan’s work.
Image:
Sidney NOLAN
Rite of Spring c. 1962
Collection of Canberra Museum and Gallery

Monday 19 August: 1–2pm
Free, bookings not required
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…