Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 4pm
📅 Wednesday 20th November
🕚 1:00pm
🎫 Pay What You Want pricing (+bf) - bookings essential!
Join us for a lunch time talk with CMAG’s Curator Nicole Sutherland, the National Museum of Australia’s Senior Curator Craig Middleton, and PhD Candidate (ANU) Matthew Cuneen and their discussion about the changing perceptions and understandings of Australia's convict past and how museums deal with this confronting history.
In August 1978, Sidney Nolan created a series of 31 drawings based on Marcus Clarke’s Australian convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life. Nolan’s drawings focussed on the convict experience in Tasmania, taking Clarke’s novel to a darker territory of the artist’s own imagination. The drawings are currently on display in the Nolan Gallery at Canberra Museum and Gallery until 23 February 2025.
Image credit: Sidney Nolan's series For the Term of His Natural Life on display at Canberra Museum and Gallery, 2024. Photo: Dominic Northcott
📅 Wednesday 20th November
🕚 1:00pm
🎫 Pay What You Want pricing (+bf) - 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.
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