Visual+Arts+-+Illusions+-+Nolan+Tower

===Nolan Tower is named after Sir Sidney Nolan who was born in 1917 and died in 1992. Along the sides of the Tower there is an artwork that was created by Alexander Knox (1995-1997). He called his creation Ned and Dan, named after the Kelly brothers. He says that his inspiration was from Sidney Nolan's Artwork of Ned Kelly on horseback in the Australian outback. The artwork on the side of the building shows some of the components on the northeast and northwest areas of the tower. The yellow panels are meant to represent the Australian outback landscape; the black point over the mask is meant to symbolize the top of Ned Kelly's helmet. The slots in the mask are the eye holes and the blue panels are meant to reflect in a motion so when you go into the building and look through the eye holes you can see all angles of the sky above.=== ===To make Ned and Dan possible, the materials they needed inside and out were crucial and still are till this day. Alexander had to use stainless steel, bearings, cams, gears, steel, shafts, electronics, aluminum, motors etc.===

===The Ned Kelly Painting - === ===//"This is Kelly the defiant. I put Kelly on top of the horse in a particularly orderly manner. I wanted an air of perfect authority. It looks simple but I wanted the maximum feeling of space, so the cloud appears through the aperture in the mask."// ===