Bushranger. History[edit] More than 2000 bushrangers are believed to have roamed the Australian countryside, beginning with the convict bolters and drawing to a close after Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan.[3] 1850s: gold rush era[edit]
Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas. A free prints and drawings exhibition featuring works by Australian artists from the 1940s to the present.
The exhibition is the first big show of Australian art of any kind in London for over a decade, and it is the first exhibition of Australian works on paper of this scale and ambition to be held outside Australia. It features 125 works on paper by 60 artists, from the 1940s modernists to contemporary artists and Indigenous Australian printmakers, all drawn from the British Museum’s impressive collection. The exhibition is arranged broadly chronologically, beginning with the rise of the ‘Angry Penguins’ group of artists – where Sidney Nolan (best known for his iconic images of the bushranger Ned Kelly), Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester experimented with surrealism and expressionism.
The 1980s and 90s are represented with drawings by Dick Watkins, James Gleeson, and Ken Whisson. Ned kelly.