TRUST IN THE RODD


This Jacobean manor house, with its weathered dignity, orchards, barns and sweeping valley views, became the final home he shared with his wife, Lady Mary Nolan. Born Mary Boyd in 1926, she came from one of Australia’s most distinguished artistic families: she was the sister of painter Arthur Boyd, and was herself a very talented photographer and steadfast patron of the arts. Mary had previously been married to the painter John Perceval before marrying Nolan in 1978. After Sidney’s death in 1992, she remained at The Rodd until her own death in 2016, lending the house a sense of continuity, memory and devotion that still seems to cling to its walls.


The Rodd is more than a handsome house with an illustrious former owner; it is the living heart of the Sidney Nolan Trust, founded by Sidney and Mary in 1985. Nolan’s ambition was not simply memorial. He wanted to create a place where art could be encountered as something active and porous: a site for exchange, experiment and artistic endeavour in a rural landscape. Today the Trust cares for The Rodd, Nolan’s only surviving studio, a major collection of his work, and his archive and library, while also presenting exhibitions, workshops, residencies and learning programmes. Arts, heritage and environment are held in deliberate conversation there, so that a visit becomes less a museum experience than a cultivated encounter - with ideas, with landscape, and with the restless, searching imagination of Sidney Nolan himself.


Now at the Trust, Antony Mottershead, part of a small and passionate team, develops and manages the creative programmes, exhibitions, learning, and collections and archive.


He trained in Fine Art Photography and has worked in the arts and cultural sector for over 15 years, often in remote locations including as Arts Development Officer for Orkney Islands Council, and helped develop Forestry England's national arts programme Forest Art Works.


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