Advice on Hearing Aids

Three Creative Fellows: Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Narritjin Maymuru

“…The scene is identifiable as an area of frequent inundation, reminiscent of the Barmah lakes on the Murray River near the outlet of the Goulburn River, more specifically a bend in the Goulburn at Toolamba near Shepparton. The marriage of those places happened serendipitously when Nolan's 1964 Christmas card to Albert Tucker, explaining that he had been ' [d]igging deeper into my early memories', crossed with Tucker's Christmas note to him, 'the only sustaining thing is the bush -just come back from a few days in the Barmah forests on the Murray, a swamp.' 10 Nolan identified the Riverbend as the scene of boyhood visits from the city into his father's home country:…”

“…9 Boyd did not intend to spend his time in Canberra working indoors in a reflective mode. 10 Five minutes from the university apartment at 30 Hopegood Place, Garran took him into the country where a remarkably blue sky rose endlessly above white-grey pastureland on which shadows were etched in black. Yvonne Boyd has explained that Arthur hoped, in Canberra, to paint his own outdoor versions of Manet's famous 'Lunch on the Grass' that showed men in contemporary dress picnicking with naked women.…”