Explore the extraordinary little-known story of the connection between the Civic Merry Go Round and Nolan's art practice. Children and adults together discover how Nolan's childhood experiences flowed into his experimental art making.In this floor talk for families with children we invite you to use movement to explore the relationship between memory and creativity. CMAG's Senior curator, Virginia Rigney, will be joined by Christopher Carroll to present this session. 

Christopher Samuel Carroll is an actor, writer and theatremaker, trained at Trinity College Dublin, and Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Since moving to Canberra in 2016, he has become one of the city’s most prolific and celebrated performers, and as artistic director of Bare Witness Theatre Company, is renowned for creating raw, pulsating theatre that ignites the imagination. In 2019, he was honoured with the inaugural Helen Tsongas award for Excellence in Acting, for roles in Twelfth Night, Icarus, Howie the Rookie, and Metamorphosis.

Image:

Sidney NOLAN (1917-1992) (Untitled) Ferris Wheel c. 1945, enamel on canvas
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Bequest of Barrett Reid 2000
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