LONDON.- Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas focuses on modern Australian artists of the past seventy years through their graphic art. The exhibition is on view from May 26th through September 11th, 2011 at the British Museum. The exhibition is the first major show of Australian art in London for at least a decade, and the largest and most ambitious devoted to Australian works on paper ever held outside Australia itself. The material for the exhibition comes entirely from the British Museum’s recently-formed collection of Australian prints and drawings, the most significant public collection outside Australia. The Australian prints and drawings collection at the British Museum has been built up over the past eight years through the generosity of many Australian artists, estates, collectors and supporters. The catalyst for the formation of the modern Australian collection was the g