Sidney Nolan 'Kelly Bulldogging' nature sea and sky – mottled

sea and sky – mottled grass

This is a twist on Jonah and the Whale

for both blue and green editions

Australian modernism and the friendship between an artist and scholar

Sidney Nolan 'Kelly Bulldogging' nature sea and sky – mottledSidney Nolan is considered among Australias greatest artists. His legacy is entwined with myth Ned Kelly haunting the Australian outback, Gallipoli, Burke and Wills all told in inventive ways. This work features his most iconic subject, Ned Kelly. When he first studied Kelly, Nolan read everything there was to read about him. He saw a tragic figure a doomed outsider, mythologised in the Australian imagination and a surrogate for the artists own