Explore the connections between Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land and 20th century greats: artist Sidney Nolan, choreographer Kenneth MacMillan and composer Igor Stravinsky through the work of award-winning photographer Axel Poignant.

See Poignant’s photographs of Nolan’s set and costume designs for the Royal Ballet’s 1962 production, The Rite of Spring. The exhibition also includes Poignant's photographs of Aboriginal people that partly inspired the break with the traditional interpretation of the ballet.

16 June – 31 August 2008
Open daily 10am-5pm

Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery, level 4
State Library of Queensland
Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank

Free floor talk
Published authority on Sidney Nolan, Dr Nancy Underhill shares her insight into the exhibition.

Friday 11 July, 11am-11.30am
Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery, level 4
Free, bookings 3842 9892

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This is an Art Gallery of NSW touring exhibition and can be viewed alongside other Nolan related exhibitions in Brisbane in the coming months: Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective at the Queensland Art Gallery 6 June – 28 September and Sidney Nolan: A Poetic Vision at the QUT Art Museum 5 June – 17 August.

 Image ‘Monica Mason was a maiden excellently chosen’,
wrote The Times ballet critic (23 April 1962)
© Roslyn Poignant, Axel Poignant Archive