Mick and Sid: Explorers of the Australian landscape
This tribute by Judith White, author of Culture Heist: Art versus Money which exposes managerialism and foreshadows corporatisation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (read review here), explores landscape in the paint of Sidney Nolan and the pen of Randolph Stow, and in the excited reverie of their imaginative minds. Outsiders both and friends for decades, Mick and Sid were contributors to the 1965 Yeats centenary book In Excited Reverie on which these Nolan Centenary...
Read MoreExpatriatism in Excited Reverie
A TRIBUTE BY BRIAN ADAMS Last year I published “Sidney Nolan’s Odyssey – a Life” timed strategically to mark the centenary of the painter’s birth in Melbourne on 22 April 1917. I assumed, quite reasonably, that several major happenings would be announced – particularly in his home town – to celebrate one of Australia’s most famous and honoured sons, culturally or otherwise. But apparently not! There was a two-week, not-for-purchase exhibition of his...
Read MorePoem in Excited Reverie: Randolph Stow for Sidney Nolan
In 1962 Sidney Nolan and Randolph Stow collaborated in the publication of Outrider, Stow’s poems written 1956-1962 and illustrated by Nolan. The two Australians found an affinity and their friendship lasted 30 years. One of the poems, “The Land’s Meaning”, was written for Nolan. It is included here as Stow’s tribute to his friend. Another tribute relating to Nolan and Stow, prepared by Judith White, will appear in Imagining in Excited Reverie...
Read MoreMeeting in Excited Reverie: Mirka Mora meets Sidney Nolan
It is hoped that Imagining in Excited Reverie, this centenary tribute to Sidney Nolan, will introduce him to a new generation of art lovers. Not only that, perhaps it will also allow those who already know of him, but little about him, to learn more of the man regarded by many as the preeminent Australian painter of the 20th century. It is appropriate then that this first centenary tribute should be from one who knew of Nolan for some 30 years before actually meeting him. Indeed, as a close...
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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...
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