Sidney Nolan Australia in 2013, following those of Brett Whiteley and Russell Drysdale. 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
Ned Kelly Man Booker Prize for his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang", written from Kelly's perspective. The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia's premier prizes for crime fiction and true crime writing. Kelly is the subject of songs by musicians as diverse as Johnny Cash and Midnight Oil. In the time since his execution, Kelly has been mythologised into a "Robin Hood" character, a political icon and a figure of Irish Catholic and working-class resistance to the establishment and British colonial ties. In the Jerilderie Letter, Kelly demands that wealthy squatters share their land with, and redistribute their wealth to, the