Sidney Nolan Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (; 22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. His oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art. Sidney Nolan was born in Carlton, at that time an inner working-class suburb of Melbourne, on 22 April 1917. He was the eldest of four children. His parents, Sidney
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly the July the 17th, 2017. A. Bertram Chandler's novel "Kelly Country" (1983) is an alternate history in which Kelly leads a successful revolution. The result is that Australia becomes a world power, but the Australian Republic which Kelly founded degenerates into a hereditary dictatorship. "Our Sunshine" (1991) by Robert Drewe was the basis of the 2003 film, "Ned Kelly", that starred Heath Ledger. Peter Carey's novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" was published in 2000, and was awarded the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Terry Pratchett's novel "The Last Continent" has a character called "Tinhead Ned",