About

NolanCentenary is maintained by Comment Publications, whose director David Rainey is a free-lance curator and writer. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Ern Malley: The Hoax and Beyond at Heide Museum of Modern Art and wrote the catalogue essay.

Since leaving practice as a patent attorney in 2006 he has conducted research into Ern Malley, Sidney Nolan, and Heide. The fruits of this research appear on aCOMMENT, another website maintained by Comment Publications.

He was a fact checker and reader for Sunday’s KitchenSunday’s Garden and Modern Love, the three recent MUP/Heide publications by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan, his Malley show co-curator.