SIDNEY NOLAN:
BOOKS & CATALOGUES 1957 – 2017

An online exhibition in support of The Sidney Nolan Trust during COVID-19.
22 April – 23 June 2020.

Like so many at this difficult time, The Sidney Nolan Trust has had to temporarily close its doors due to COVID-19 and is set to lose almost 75% of its income this year. As a small charity with only limited reserves, this puts the Trust at significant risk. In an effort to help the Trust survive the crisis, Room & Book has assembled a comprehensive selling exhibition of books and catalogues spanning six decades of Nolan scholarship which will be for sale online from 22nd of April 2020. 50% of sales will go towards the work of the Trust.

The exhibition includes more than 40 publications, including major monographs, biographies, exhibition catalogues, commercial gallery sales catalogues and significant auction catalogues of sales from the Nolan estate. Also included are dustcover designs, endpapers, illustrations and photographs Nolan contributed to books by friends and colleagues, including the travel books published by the writer Cynthia Reed Nolan, to whom Nolan was married between 1948 and 1976. Important books on, and by, Nolan’s contemporaries Arthur Boyd and Patrick White are included, as well as books covering subjects which underpinned Nolan’s creative practice, such as Ned Kelly and the fictional poet Ern Malley.

In the last decade of his life, Sidney Nolan established himself at The Rodd, a 500-year-old farm on the English Welsh border. It was here that he set up the charity bearing his name and gifted a significant number of his paintings and works on paper. Today, the Trust ‘s mission is to build on Nolan’s extraordinary artistic legacy to maintain a vibrant and thriving centre for the arts, in a rural setting. The Trust also gives others the space and freedom to expand their boundaries through art, music, poetry and drama in order to produce ground-breaking contemporary work in the spirit of Nolan.

The Sidney Nolan Trust is a U.K. Registered Charity. Registered charity number 1161850.