Sidney Nolan
dal 1/11/2012 al 26/1/2013
Segnalato da
1/11/2012
Sidney Nolan
Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Ned Kelly Series. Painted in 1946 and 1947, the series takes the form of stylised depictions of the exploits of the notorious bushranger Ned Kelly in the Australian outback, following the main sequence of the Kelly story. The Kelly saga was also a way for Nolan to paint the Australian landscape in new ways, with the story giving meaning to the place.
This exhibition presents the famous Ned Kelly series of paintings by the celebrated Australian artist Sidney Nolan. Painted in 1946 and 1947, the series takes the form of stylised depictions of the exploits of the notorious bushranger Ned Kelly in the Australian outback. The works were originally held at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, where Nolan had painted 26 of the 27 when it was the home of his close friends John and Sunday Reed. They were gifted to the National Gallery of Australia in 1977.
The Ned Kelly series follows the main sequence of the Kelly story. However, Nolan did not intend the series to be an authentic portrayal of events. Rather, the various episodes became the setting for the artist's meditations upon universal themes of injustice, love and betrayal. The Kelly saga was also a way for Nolan to paint the Australian landscape in new ways, with the story giving meaning to the place.
Born in 1917 in Melbourne, Sidney Nolan attended the National Gallery of Victoria School of Art. He was conscripted into the army in 1942 and began to paint his immediate surroundings the Australian outback. In 1945 he began his first paintings on the theme of Ned Kelly. From 1953, Nolan began travelling extensively from his base in London, he painted many remarkable series of works inspired by his travels to Europe, Africa, China and Antartica. Nolan made several visits to Ireland, where he painted his Wild Geese series, inspired by the many Irish soldiers who fled the country after the failed Jacobite wars of the 1690s, representing them as well-known latter day exiles and wanderers such as James Joyce and Ernest Shackleton. Six of the series were donated to the IMMA Collection on the foundation of the Museum in 1991, and a further work, Gallipoli, 1955, was donated the following year.
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Events
Talk + Preview | Sidney Nolan and Ned Kelly: an Irish-Australian Legend
Thursday 1 November, 5.00pm, the Johnston Suite, IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Deborah Hart (Senior curator, Australian Paintings and Sculpture post-1920 at the National Gallery of Australia) introduces the work of celebrated Australian artist Sidney Nolan in a lively discussion about his famous Ned Kelly series. Book required
Lecture
Tuesday 13 November, 4.00pm, the Johnston Suite, IMMA
Yvonne Scott, art historian and lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, discusses the use of landscape in the work of artist Sidney Nolan, and explores the artist's appropriation of established motifs and their reconfiguration to question ideas of national identity. Book required
Gallery Talk
Wednesday 28 November, 4.00pm, New Galleries, IMMA
Mary Cremin, Project Curator: Exhibitions, IMMA, presents a gallery talk on the selection and curation of paintings which feature in the exhibition. Book required
Lecture: Ned and Nolan: Getting to Grips with the Kelly Legend
Tuesday 4 December, 4.00 pm, the Johnston Suite, IMMA
Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, currently Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, is an expert on convict life in Australia. In response to the exhibition, Maxwell-Stewart discusses the political and social significance of the life of the Irish Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. Book required
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Image: Sidney Nolan, Ned Kelly, 1946, 90.8 (H) x 121.5 (W) cm, enamel on composition board, Gift of Sunday Reed 1977, Collection National Gallery of Australia
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