ABOUT
“The Rodd is a centre for creative work, exploration, learning and doing. It is a kind of testing ground, it is a place for experiment, it is a place in which things can be tried and things can be discovered.”
Mel Gooding, 2010
ABOUT SIDNEY
"I've had a very complex life, emotional life... I'd like now to be more direct, to try and look at myself as if I am somebody else"
1992
TRUST
FILM
A short film about the Sidney Nolan Trust
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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 47. Central Australia - Leanne Santoro
Central Australia is one of the highlights of the AGNSW’s Nolan, and indeed Australian art, collection. Emerging from Nolan…
read moreNo.33 Self Portrait - Denise Mimmocchi
In 1943, the young Nolan painted himself as an artist ready for combat. Confronting the viewer with a penetrating gaze, …
read moreNo.16 Rimbaud at Harar - Edmund Capon AM OBE
The precocious and unpredictable French poet Arthur Rimbaud who began writing at the age of fifteen and then abandoned literature…
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