Sidney Nolan b. 22 April 1917

Also known as Sir Sidney Robert Nolan
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Theatre / Film Designer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sir Sidney Nolan, the son of a Melbourne tram driver, became one of Australia's most celebrated and honoured artists. His Ned Kelly series made him a household name. Working in several media and art forms - painting, drawing, printmaking, set design, murals, spray painting and collage - he created more than 10,000 individual works.
Tags: Australian mythology, Heide, Ned Kelly, Herald Exhibition of English and European Contemporary Art
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Citations

  • (10 June 1940), 'Melbourne Herald’, Basil Burdett’s review of Nolan’s first solo exhibition.

  • O’Neill, Sally (2000), 'Nolan, Violet Cynthia’.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nolan-violet-cynthia-11251

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Lynn, Elwyn (1967), 'Sidney Nolan: Myth and Imagery’, Macmillan, Melbourne.

  • Clark, Kenneth et al (1961), 'Sidney Nolan’, Thames and Hudson, London.

  • Barber, Noel (1964), 'Conversations with Painters’, Collins, London.

  • Hughes, Robert (1970), 'The Art of Australia’, Penguin, Ringwood, VIC.

  • Gilchrist, Maureen (1976), 'Nolan at Lanyon’, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

  • Lynn, Elwyn and Sidney Nolan (1979), 'Sidney Nolan – Australia’, Bay Books, Sydney.

  • Haese, Richard (1981), 'Rebels and Precursors: The Revolutionary Years of Australian Art’, Allen Lane, Ringwood, VIC.

  • Haese, Richard and Minchin, Jan (1983), 'Sidney Nolan: The City and the Plain (exhibition catalogue)’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Adams, Brian (1987), 'Sidney Nolan: Such is Life’, Hutchison of Australia, Hawthorn, VIC.

  • Clark, Jane (1987), 'Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends (exhibition catalogue)’, International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited, Sydney.

  • Underhill, Nancy and Reid, Barrett (eds) (2001), 'Letters of John Reed: Defining Australian Cultural Life 1920-1981’, Penguin, Ringwood, VIC.

  • Bail, Murray and Sayers, Andrew (2002), 'Sid Nolan’s Ned Kelly: the Ned Kelly paintings in the National Gallery of Australia’, National Gallery of Australia.

  • Burke, Janine (2004), 'The Heart Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide’, Knopf, Sydney.

  • McCaughey, Patrick (ed) (2006), 'Bert and Ned: The Correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan’, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne.

  • Underhill, Nancy (ed) (2007), 'Nolan on Nolan: Sidney Nolan in his own words’, Penguin, Camberwell, VIC.

  • Pearce, Barry et al (2007), 'Sidney Nolan (exhibition catalogue)’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • White, Patrick (1981), 'Flaws in the Glass’, Jonathon Cape, London.

  • Heywood, Michael (1993), 'The Ern Malley Affair’, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.

  • Robb, Gwenda and Elaine Smith, Robert Smith (ed) (1993), 'Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists’, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

  • McCulloch, Alan et al (2006), 'McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne.

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  • Numerous other solo, joint and group exhibitions held in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, America, Canada, Europe and Asia (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: a new retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: desert and drought (exhibited at)
  • Sir Sidney Nolan: an exhibition to celebrate Sidney Nolan's 75th birthday (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: Legends and Landscapes (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: the city and the plain (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: 102 works from the first fifteen years (1939-53) (exhibited at)
  • Nolan's Gallipoli (exhibited at)
  • Nolan at Lanyon: an exhibition of the Sidney Nolan gift of twenty-four paintings to the Australian people (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: Ern Malley and Paradise Garden (exhibited at)
  • The Australian Landscape (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings from 1937-1967 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: African journey (exhibited at)
  • Rebels and precursors: aspects of painting in Melbourne 1937-1947 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: Leda and the Swan and other recent work (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan (exhibited at)
  • The 'Kelly' paintings of Sidney Nolan 1946-47 (exhibited at)
  • Three members of the Contemporary Art Society: Nolan, Boyd and Tucker (exhibited at)
  • Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sidney Nolan (exhibited at)
  • Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: landscapes and legends: a retrospective 1937-1987 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: Ern Malley and paradise garden (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: landscape and legends, a retrospective exhibition 1937-1987 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan at the Metropolitan (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan drawings (exhibited at)
  • Nolan: Wimmera landscapes (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: a seventy-fifth birthday celebration (exhibited at)
  • Nolan: landscapes & legends (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: the city and the plain (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: works on paper (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan landscapes and legends: a retropsective exhibition 1937-1987 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: myth and history (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan and Igor Horenko (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: notes for Oedipus (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: burning at Glenrowan (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: paintings on slate 1941-42 and new drawings 1977 (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: recent drawings on themes from Samuel Beckett (exhibited at)
  • Arthur Boyd: family and friends (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan trio (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan's complete works from the Heide collection (exhibited at)
  • The Ned Kelly paintings: Nolan at Heide 1946-47 (exhibited at)
  • Burning at Glenrowan: Sidney Nolan (exhibited at)
  • Sidney Nolan: desert and drought (exhibited at)
  • The plains: Wimmera and the imaging of Australian landscape: Philip Hunter and Sidney Nolan (exhibited at)