“Nothing will ever substitute for the experience of standing in front of a work of art: that direct communion between artists and their audience.”
Next year will be the 40th since the former home of avant-garde art patrons John and Sunday Reed formally opened as a public art museum.
It has long planned for the place’s prodigal son (or rather his art) to return for the anniversary: Sidney Nolan, whose intimate, emotional and intellectual relationship with the Reeds fired his early work as he bent the trajectory of Australian art and first painted his Ned Kellys.
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