Bio
Sidney Nolan Bio
Australian artist known for his Surreal and expressive paintings often focusing on Australian history depicting landscapes and legendary characters like outlaw Ned Kelly Nolan said “Painting is an extension of man’s means of communication as such it’s pure, difficult and wonderful” Born in 1917 in Carlton Australia and receiving some training at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne Nolan became one of Australia’s leading artists of the 20th century In the 1930’s meet the founders of the Heide Museum of Modern Art John and Sunday Reed Heide was place for the discussion, creation and the promotion of modern art and literature by many including Sidney Nolan Albert Tucker Joy Hester and John Perceval Nolan painted many a canvas whilst at Heide and it was at Heide that the inaugural exhibition of Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly Paintings 1981 was held He was knighted in 1981 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1983. Today Nolan’s works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C