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'Sidney Nolan: 100 Year Celebration' well worth a visit

1/5/2017

 
​Quite a few members of the U3A Art Appreciation Group attended the lecture given by Damien Smith, former archivist of the Sidney Nolan Trust U.K., to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sidney Nolan. Surprisingly this is the only exhibition in Australia this year to celebrate this occasion despite several important exhibitions being organised in the U.K.
 
The Benalla Art Gallery’s significant collection of Nolan’s work is on display in the Simpson Gallery until 21st May and is well worth a visit. The much loved tapestry of the Glenrowan siege, now restored, is on view. As well, eight of the iconic Kelly-series screen prints tell the story of the Kelly saga.

Two groups of rare photos taken by Nolan between 1949 and 1952 depict the drought in the Queensland outback. They give the viewers insights into where he found some of the well known images in his landscapes of the red and barren interior of Australia. The mummified images of horses and cattle are particularly arresting. The Brisbane courier Mail didn’t print any of these photos despite commissioning some of them, as they were deemed too confronting for their readers.
 
Smith also commented on the painting “Horse rolling on the beach” (1945).  It appears Nolan caught a glimpse of a horse rolling in the sand on St Kilda beach when he was travelling past by tram. Nolan’s almost photographic visual memory stored this quirky image and used it later for this painting.
 
My favourites are the two small studies done in fabric ink and wax crayon that reference Greek Myths entitled “Prometheus” (1968) and “Woman and Bird” (1958).
 
Nolan was a prolific painter, photographer and voracious reader and collector all his life, interested particularly in myths and poetry. His  wide reading seemed to stimulate his vision and form the basis of some of his works.


​Meg Dillon

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Postscript:  Meg’s report also relates to the May session of Art Appreciation, where the exhibition covered was the Sydney Nolan: 100 Year Celebration
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Sidney Nolan's Glenrowan tapestry, Benalla Art Gallery Collection.  ​
​(Image Source: Benalla Art Gallery Sidney Nolan: 100 year birthday celebration
​promotion, Benalla Art Gallery Website)

    About the Art Appreciation 
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    Join Benalla Art Gallery staff and other members of the community on the first Monday of every month at 10am for an eclectic and ever-changing curated program of talks and tours. See the latest exhibitions and listen to talks by guest artists and curators. Stay on after the session for a coffee in the Gallery Cafe and catch up with other members of the Art Appreciation group.

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