Sharing Experience - news from our symposium
“I thoroughly enjoyed today, it’s been great to hear more about the transformative effect that the project has had on many…
Sidney Nolan: the man and the myth
The film premiered in Australia on ABC, Tuesday 6th November at 9.30pm.
Mindwalks
24 - 26 November
An exhibition of experimental collaborative installations and other artwork by Tony Collier, Kate Green & friends to be shown in the Sidney Nolan Trust Gallery.
Ant is a retired architect with a lifelong interest in the Arts. Sketches he made on walks were often the inspiration for his paintings and drawings. Kate is an artist who explores walking in the rural landscape as an artistic medium.
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We asked our 2018 'artist campers' what The Rodd represented. They said:
“mind space... a place for wandering and thinking... free ranging... a centre for ecologically sound creative practice and collective learning... a place to step away from your normal life… a space where art becomes a place to belong, it forms community… a bee’s paradise where both artists and ecology can flourish and work in harmony… a creative retreat, a place for artists to expand their practices… way ahead of its time … many other things that cannot be explained with just words…"
Green Room Blog
Stories, pictures and films from residency artists, learning programme participants, workshop and masterclass students and artist campers sharing their experiences and responses to time spent at The Rodd
Autumn printmaking
We are two weeks into our Autumn Saturday intaglio printmaking courses in our new garage workshop.
Our big day
On Tuesday 18th September 2018 Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire,The Dowager Countess of Darnley, handed over…
Saturday's exhibition opening
The crowds came out for the opening of our exhibition of paintings by Celia Perceval and photographs by Tim Perceval in …
The Nolan 100
A birthday tribute to Sidney Nolan from 100 individuals worldwide.
In 2017 we invited people who knew Sidney, worked with him, or have been influenced by his work or his legacy to choose a ‘favourite’ Nolan work and tell us why.
No 45. Luna Park - Bill Granger
It’s been over thirty years since I’ve lived in Melbourne but Sidney Nolan’s painting Luna Park takes me instantly back …
read moreNo.6 Dog and Duck - Jane Clark
"I didn’t include Dog and Duck Hotel in Sidney Nolan’s 70th birthday retrospective exhibition. It was hanging in his sitting…
read moreNo 71. Breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head - Michael Berkeley
I really got to know Sid when he and Mary moved to the Rodd and put on music in their handsome oak-timbered barn.
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