Sidney nolan biography australian paintings on hardboard

"Central Australia is one of the highlights of the AGNSW’s Nolan, and indeed Australian art, collection. Emerging from Nolan’s 1949 trip to Central Australia, the aerial perspective, with the rocky landscape disappearing into a far-off horizon reveals the monumental scale of the Australian outback.

Flying with pilot Eddie Connellan as he delivered mail on his long runs, Nolan was afforded an aerial perspective of the landscape, a viewpoint which had so impressed him two years earlier on his flights over Queensland and Fraser Island.

Nolan was one of the first non-indigenous artists to paint the vast, remote interior of the continent at a time when the majority of the population had never seen the country’s centre.

Today went on a mail flight for four hundred miles… It is a simple matter to trace in this old waterless and eroded surface of the earth the dreaming nature and philosophy of the Aborigines.

In the morning the light on the hills was like ga