Events
A detailed summary follows of events planned to mark Sidney Nolan’s centenary in 2017-18, including time, place and location. The list of events will be updated as information comes to hand. Links to reviews will be added later, if and when available. The Sidney Nolan Trust held a Press Conference in London on 2 November 2016 to announce their plans to mark the Centenary in the UK. Details appear below, and for the latest up-to-date information always check the Centenary page on...
Read MoreaCOMMENT on Nolan
In 2011 the website aCOMMENT began publishing detailed and well researched essays on selected topics relating to Sidney Nolan. Synopses of these essays, and links to them, follow. The most recent are listed first. Nolan Centenary Update IV Posted on August 17, 2017 This fourth update announces two forthcoming exhibitions in Melbourne curated especially for the Centenary, the first such in Australia this year. Sidney Nolan: the Greek Series opens at the Hellenic Museum on 25...
Read MoreImagining in Excited Reverie
In 1965 Sidney Nolan was invited to paint the cover for a centenary tribute to W. B. Yeats. It is one of almost eighty Nolan book covers. The book’s title In Excited Reverie, is from a Yeats poem. In his own centenary year 2017, what better title to pay tribute to Nolan’s fecund visual imagination than the full line by Yeats: “imagining in excited reverie.”1 Imagining in Excited Reverie is an online collection of prose and...
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