Australia’s most famous silent film, lost for decades and painstakingly reconstructed from incomplete versions and NFSA stills.
A 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 crayon pastel drawings based on the events of Marcus Clarke’s 1874 convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.
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
View Sidney Nolan's monumental nine panel work Riverbend
Designed for people aged 16+ who are members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies.
Stitch, sew and stuff your own soft sculpture in the CMAG Studio
View the exhibition Fly Fly! – Sidney Nolan’s Birds then participate in an art workshop with artist Mariana del Castillo in the CMAG studio.
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.
An exhibition for children and families in the Nolan Gallery
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.
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
Experience Sidney Nolan's ‘Search for Paradise’ with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
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
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
Join Virginia Rigney (Senior Curator, CMAG), Tim Bonyhady (Art Historian and Emeritus Professor, ANU College of Law), Tony Oates (Interim Director, Drill Hall Gallery) and Oscar Capezio (Curator, ANU Art Collection), for a conversation.
Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the Greeks, reading the Iliad and visiting Gallipoli, so close to Troy. He…