Chris McAuliffe from the ANU School of Art curated an exhibition of Sidney Nolan's works at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Victoria.

We who love: The Nolan slates is a window into the world of renowned Australian painter Sidney Nolan (1917–1992), reflecting a time of artistic experimentation and personal upheaval. From December 1941 to June 1942, Nolan made around 32 paintings on roofing slates. They reveal his distinctive preference for non-art materials, his avant-garde aspirations and his literary interests. Through the paintings, Nolan recorded the end of his marriage, new relationships with patrons John and Sunday Reed, and fears arising from the war in the Pacific. Concerned that there might not be ‘many more tomorrows’, Nolan painted the slates as a remarkable, even desperate, avowal of emotional and creative freedom.

In order to display the full sequence of slate paintings, some of which were double-sided, Chris worked with the School of Art’s Inkjet Research Facility to produce facsimile’s of previously hidden Nolan paintings.

https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/we-who-love-nolan-slates