GHTANT has arranged an end-of-year function for members for a private tour and presentation of the Sidney Nolan exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

Entry is free for members, and members are invited to bring a colleague who may not be a GHTANT member.

Nibbles provided. 

This event will be very helpful for exploring the 2020 National History Challenge topic relating to Contested Histories. We will provide resources on how you can embed this exhibition into your teaching and learning program. 

From the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory webiste:

Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series

Sidney Nolan’s 1946-47 paintings depicting the 19th century bush ranger Ned Kelly are among the most significant Australian paintings of the 20th century. 

Nolan’s Ned Kelly series is a distillation of a complex, layered story set in the Victorian landscape and centred around a nineteenth-century bushranger and his gang who were on the run from the police.

Landscape is a key element in the paintings—as Nolan said, ‘it began in the landscape and ended in the landscape’. The series also depends upon a loosely threaded but vital dramatic human narrative that has its catalyst with Constable Fitzpatrick and Kate Kelly 1946 in the domestic arena of the Kelly family home where a fracas occurs, and ends with The trial 1947, in a Melbourne courtroom where Ned Kelly is sentenced to death.
The marriage of a feeling for the environment and human drama imbues these paintings with meaning and poetic resonance. While the legendary aspect is informed by social history, some of the paintings are embellished by Nolan’s lively imagination.