Sidney Nolan 'Kelly Bulldogging' nature This is a twist on

This is a twist on Jonah and the Whale

Australian modernism and the friendship between an artist and scholar

Michael POWELL

She was a member of the George Bell School and the only woman to exhibit alongside Charles Blackman and his compatriots at the 1953 Herald Art Show

sea and sky – mottled grass

Sidney Nolan 'Kelly Bulldogging' nature This is a twist onSidney Nolan is considered among Australias greatest artists. His legacy is entwined with myth Ned Kelly haunting the Australian outback, Gallipoli, Burke and Wills all told in inventive ways. This work features his most iconic subject, Ned Kelly. When he first studied Kelly, Nolan read everything there was to read about him. He saw a tragic figure a doomed outsider, mythologised in the Australian imagination and a surrogate for the artists own