Sidney Nolan’s “Ned Kelly” was created in 1946. The production was enameled on a composition board. Nolan draws the viewer into one of the defining narratives not only of Australian history but of colonial experience throughout the world. This painting belongs to a faux naif style inspired by both children's art and Modernist painting of the early 20th Century. Nolan kept the figurative potential of painting. Not only in this painting, but in the whole series, the painter found a way to express the ideas, hence, he put the character in highlighted states of being experienced by all people during that period. In this painting, he depicted Ned Kelly alone in a wide scene, here, forming a contrast, it actually symbolizes the situation of that time, such as dispossession, loss, meanwhile showing Kelly’s lonely and fighting spirit.
“Come together” was completed by Ricky Swallow in 2002. The material he used is laminated Jelutong (a kind of hardwood). This sculpture is a wooden skull buried in the folds of a wooden beanbag that looks soft enough to collapse in, in order to create perfect surface, the process mainly included chiseling, scraping and sanding. The skull and the beanbag combined harmonically. Due to his extreme high skill of sculpturing with wood, the production seems to have a dynamic feeling rather than totally static. Actually he wants to express his view of life, he believes everyone dies; but before that happens they need somewhere to rest, that’s the reason why he named it come together. All the memories come together.
Sidney Nolan’s “Ned Kelly” was created in 1946. The production was enameled on a composition board. Nolan draws the viewer into one of the defining narratives not only of Australian history but of colonial experience throughout the world. This painting belongs to a faux naif style inspired by both children's art and Modernist painting of the early 20th Century. Nolan kept the figurative potential of painting. Not only in this painting, but in the whole series, the painter found a way to express the ideas, hence, he put the character in highlighted states of being experienced by all people during that period. In this painting, he depicted Ned Kelly alone in a wide scene, here, forming a contrast, it actually symbolizes the situation of that time, such as dispossession, loss, meanwhile showing Kelly’s lonely and fighting spirit. 
“Come together” was completed by Ricky Swallow in 2002. The material he used is laminated Jelutong (a kind of hardwood). This sculpture is a wooden skull buried in the folds of a wooden beanbag that looks soft enough to collapse in, in order to create perfect surface, the process mainly included chiseling, scraping and sanding. The skull and the beanbag combined harmonically. Due to his extreme high skill of sculpturing with wood, the production seems to have a dynamic feeling rather than totally static. Actually he wants to express his view of life, he believes everyone dies; but before that happens they need somewhere to rest, that’s the reason why he named it come together. All the memories come together.
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