Sir Sidney Robert Nolan was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is
Sidney Nolan, 1940s, by Albert Tucker
Heide I, where Nolan painted the majority of his early Ned Kelly works
The Trial, held at the National Gallery of Australia, is one of 27 paintings comprising Nolan's 1946–47 Ned Kelly series.
In 1952, Nolan documented the effects of drought in outback Queensland. His photographs of desiccated animals were a catalyst for his later drought paintings.
Edward Kelly was an Australian bushranger, gang leader and police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a homemade suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with th
Sidney Nolan
…most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously that of Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art. Sidney Nolan was born in Carlton, at…
Kelly's boyhood home, built by his father in Beveridge in 1859
According to oral tradition, a young Kelly was awarded this green sash after saving another boy from drowning in a creek. Kelly wore it under his armour during his last stand at Glenrowan. It remains stained with his blood. (Benalla Museum)
Harry Power has been described as Kelly's bushranging "mentor".
Power's capture. Kelly was accused of informing on the bushranger.