Event
KIDS WORKSHOP: Art in Action - Exploring Stage Design
16 April

For aspiring young performers and stage designers! Get inspired by the stage and costume designs by Sidney Nolan and create your own unique set design.

CONCERTS: Resonant Spaces at CMAG
Event
4 April—4 April
CONCERTS: Resonant Spaces at CMAG

A solo piano concert series featuring ARIA Award–winning artists David Bridie and Sophie Hutchings

FILM SCREENING: For The Term of His Natural Life (Reconstructed, 4K)
Event
1 February
FILM SCREENING: For The Term of His Natural Life (Reconstructed, 4K)

Australia’s most famous silent film, lost for decades and painstakingly reconstructed from incomplete versions and NFSA stills.

PANEL TALK: Representing Convict History in Museums
Event
20 November
PANEL TALK: Representing Convict History in Museums

A discussion about the changing perceptions and understandings of Australia's convict past and how museums deal with this confronting history.

Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life
Exhibition
10 August 2024—23 February
Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life
Final weeks

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.

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP: Build a Landscape - Monoprinting inspired by Riverbend
Event
15 July
SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP: Build a Landscape - Monoprinting inspired by Riverbend

Step into the world of Sidney Nolan's iconic artwork Riverbend and embark on a creative journey inspired by the legendary tale of Ned Kelly

Riverbend
Exhibition
13 April 2024—28 July 2024
Riverbend

View Sidney Nolan's monumental nine panel work Riverbend

QUEERING CMAG: Drawing In The Gallery
Event
Booked Out
18 November 2023
QUEERING CMAG: Drawing In The Gallery
Booked out

Designed for people aged 16+ who are members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies.

CMAG on Saturday: Sew What?
Event
4 November 2023
CMAG on Saturday: Sew What?

Stitch, sew and stuff your own soft sculpture in the CMAG Studio

Event
CREATIVE WORKSHOP: Flights of Fancy with artist Mariana del Castillo
26 August 2023

View the exhibition Fly Fly! – Sidney Nolan’s Birds then participate in an art workshop with artist Mariana del Castillo in the CMAG studio.

A Flock of Words! Poetry and art inspired by Sidney Nolan’s Birds
Event
4 July 2023
A Flock of Words! Poetry and art inspired by Sidney Nolan’s Birds

Is it a bird? A flock of words? Or a poem?!
In this fun-filled workshop, be inspired by the exhibition ‘Fly Fly!: Sidney Nolan’s Birds’ to play with rhyme and words, and create a bird.

Fly Fly! - Sidney Nolan's Birds
Exhibition
29 April 2023—24 September 2023
Fly Fly! - Sidney Nolan's Birds
Final weeks

An exhibition for children and families in the Nolan Gallery

CURATOR TALK: An armour of lace and silk - costuming the Kelly Gang
Event
22 February 2023
CURATOR TALK: An armour of lace and silk - costuming the Kelly Gang

Join curators Virginia Rigney and Dr Jennifer Gall in their talk about Alice Babidge’s costumes for Justin Kurzel’s film The True History of the Kelly Gang and parallels with Sidney Nolan’s imagery in his Ned Kelly series.

NFSA Screening: True History of the Kelly Gang + Q&A
Event
26 November 2022
NFSA Screening: True History of the Kelly Gang + Q&A

Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prizewinning novel of the same name, True History of the Kelly Gang is an epic, fictionalised re-telling of the life of legendary Australian bushranger Ned Kelly

Event
Nolan's Paradise
19 October 2022

Experience Sidney Nolan's ‘Search for Paradise’ with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise Highlights Tour
Event
10 August 2022—12 October 2022
Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise Highlights Tour

Drop into CMAG during your lunch hour for a highlights tour of the exhibition Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise with our Senior Curator of Visual Arts, Virginia Rigney

Heide and Nolan's Search for Paradise: Exhibition Tour with Lesley Harding
Event
15 July 2022
Heide and Nolan's Search for Paradise: Exhibition Tour with Lesley Harding

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