In words and pictures, join author, curator and art historian Dr Nancy Underhill on an authoritative, insightful and often irreverent journey through the life and work of Sidney Nolan, one of Australia’s finest artistic geniuses.

Nancy Underhill will peel back the layers from a complicated, expedient and manipulative artistic genius as she carries the story from Nolan’s birth in 1917 to his death in 1992, tracing his early life, his experience as a commercial artist, his involvement in the Angry Penguins magazine, his painting and set design, his difficult marriages and friendships with some of the twentieth century’s most famous figures: Patrick White, Albert Tucker, Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender and Kenneth Clark.

Digging through the myths around Australia’s most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, Nancy Underhill walks the audience through an animated historical presentation bringing to life her newly released book Sidney Nolan: A Life which some have called the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves.