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 (play) Ned Kelly (play) Ned Kelly is a 1942 radio play by Douglas Stewart about the outlaw Ned Kelly. It was later adapted into a stage play. The play was first produced as a radio play on the ABC, 21 June 1942. It became a stage play presented by the Sydney University Dramatic Society, 14 October 1942. It was performed in Melbourne in 1944. The stage version was professionally produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1956 with Leo McKern. The play was adapted for Australian TV in 1959 by the ABC. It focused on two main events – the