Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series depicts the story of Australia’s most infamous outlaw in a sequence of 26 paintings.

Nolan’s starkly simplified silhouette and vibrant colour strokes brought this early colonial mythology to life, with Nolan’s depiction quickly forming part of Australia’s shared iconography.

The series is a masterclass on Australian history and the development of a new figuration and landscape depiction in Australian art.

_{Sidney Nolan
Ned Kelly, 1946
from the Ned Kelly series 1946 - 1947
enamel paint on composition board
90.80 x 121.50 cm
Gift of Sunday Reed 1977}

_{Sidney Nolan
The Trial, 1947
from the Ned Kelly series 1946 - 1947
enamel paint on composition board
90.70 x 121.20 cm
Gift of Sunday Reed 1977}

Ned Kelly series is on tour from the National Gallery of Australia.