About this work
Sidney Nolan was one of Australia’s most inventive and influential artists. Between 1949 and 1953 Nolan created a series of extraordinary images that depicted inland Australia. These included aerial views of desert and mountain ranges, drought-stricken landscapes with carcasses, poignant narratives of the Burke and Wills expedition, and images of religion in an Australian context. Nolan’s unique vision, which had an overwhelming impact on local audiences, launched his international career and supplanted the pastoral imagery that had dominated Australian landscape painting since the nineteenth century.