In 1951 Nolan accompanied his friend, the film producer John Heyer, on a research trip along the Birdsville Track for the award-winning documentary film Back of Beyond, which was released in 1954. The landscape drawings from the period echo the adventures featured in this film. The following year Nolan was commissioned by the Brisbane Courier-Mail to record the effects of the drought at the ti…

Provenance

The collection of Cynthia Nolan; The collection of Ann Robin Banks; thence by decent to a private collection, London The artist Ann Robin Banks was a close friend of Cynthia Nolan and worked on the Eureka Stockade mural with Sidney Nolan. This mural was commissioned for the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1965 and is now housed at the Australian National University, Canberra. The artist Sidney Nolan rented Ann Banks' studio in Fulham and eventually purchased it when she moved to Scotland.