#089 ARTSNATIONAL Gold Coast
April 2024 Lecture and Morning Tea
'Sidney Nolan at Heide - The man behind the mask'
Sidney Nolan is perhaps the most famous member of the ‘Heide circle’, the group of young artists whose formative careers were championed and shaped by Melbourne art patrons John and Sunday Reed. This lecture charts Nolan’s early, experimental years as a young painter, from his days as a commercial artist and the enfant terrible of the Melbourne art world to the completion of his acclaimed Ned Kelly paintings in 1947. It also explores his complex relationship with the Reeds, who supported Nolan unreservedly from the time of their first meeting in 1938 until his abrupt departure from Heide a decade later, after which they never saw him again.
Kendrah Morgan is Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, where she joined the staff in 2003. She began her curatorial career at Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, after previous roles in the commercial gallery sector and as a lecturer in art and design history. Since 1998 Kendrah has curated more than forty exhibitions, with Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls, (2017); Arthur Boyd: Brides (2014); and Fiona Hall: Big Game Hunting (2013) among her major projects. She has also co-authored four books on aspects of Heide history, including Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed (2015), which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction and the Colin Roderick Literary Award. Her most recent book, Mirka and Georges: A Culinary Affair, the story of Mirka and Georges Mora’s transformation of Melbourne’s culinary and cultural landscape, was released in 2018.
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The title of the lecture is "Sidney Nolan at Heide - The man behind the mask".This lecture charts Sidney Nolan's early years as a painter to the completion of his acclaimed Ned Kelly paintings in 1947.
Our speaker from Australia is KENDRAH MORGAN.
Location
The Lakeside Room, HOTA
135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise Qld 4217
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#089 ArtsNational Gold Coast Lecture - April 2024
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