Sidney Nolan occupies a crucial place in the history of 20th century painting - his imagery of Ned Kelly is perhaps the best known and most recognised subject in the whole of Australian art. Sidney Nolan's paintings and photographs of the desert and drought of inland Australia are brought into sharp[...]
In the late 1910s, Sidney Smith developed a formula of the daily strip that would make "The Gumps" one of the most popular comics of the 1920s and himself one of the richest cartoonists of his day. By the end of the decade Sidney Smith's "The Gumps" had secured a huge and loyal audience with a decad[...]