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Would No have been Yes?

Posted by on Oct 28, 2023 in aCOMMENT | 1 comment

Would No have been Yes?

It is almost 31 years since Sidney Nolan, perhaps Australia’s best known artist, died in his Whitehall Court apartment overlooking the River Thames. He had lived in England for more than 40 years, albeit with much travelling and many extended visits back to this country of his birth.  While best known for his Ned Kelly paintings, he is little known for his many paintings, writings, photographs and feelings regarding our First Nations people.  Aware of this, and saddened on the...

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aCOMMENT on Nolan

Posted by on Apr 26, 2016 in aCOMMENT |

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...

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