2025 NAS Awards Recipients

2025 NAS Awards Recipients

Major Awards

Clitheroe Foundation Master of Fine Art Scholarship (2 x $10,000) Jed Payten and Nikita Maricic
Lift Off Award ($20,000) Frankie Abroon
Standish and Co. Scholarship ($5,000, mentorship, and $5,000 voucher) Harri Barnes
Fire Up Award ($5,000) Lihnida Krstanoska-Blazeska
Fire Up Award Highly Commended ($1,000) Cristelle Cabrera
East Sydney Doctors Scholarship ($5,000) Rose Rigley
National Art School Aboriginal Art Centre Internship (10-week internship) Indi Wolstenholme and Lucy Russell
Tropical Lab International Camp (Residency) Majlena Muecke

Art History

Brandon Trakman Prize for Art History and Theory (3 x $900) Sasha Hart, Emily Heath, and  Jack Oliver Owen

Ceramics

Australian Ceramics Association Prize (Membership) Janet Jiahui Wu and Damian Sawyers
Claypool Award (Membership) Mel Jhey
Parkers Sydney Fine Art Ceramic Award ($500 voucher) Sophie Sheppard
Kil.n.it Award (2 x $500 voucher) Jasmine Greenwood and Jessica Smith
Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios Ceramics Award (Studio) Paige Hottwagner
Sabbia Mentorship and Exhibition Award (Exhibition and Mentorship) Alice Royds
Matilda Kubany-Deane Ceramics Prize ($1,000) Bianca Seeto
N.E. Pethebridge Award BFA ($1,500) Darcy Phelan
N.E. Pethebridge Award MFA  ($1,500) Lihnida Krstanoska-Blazeska

Drawing

Parkers Sydney Fine Art Drawing Award ($500 voucher) Elodie Harmston
John Olsen Family Prize for Drawing Highly Commended ($500) Edwina Barton
John Olsen Family Prize for Drawing ($2,000) Alexandra Stephenson
The Bonner and Tonkin Drawing Prize ($1,000) Sailor Kennard
Anne Pata Memorial Drawing Award (2x $1,000) Dan Hull and Samantha Klein
Bettina McMahon Drawing Prize ($3,000)  Angus Fisher
Kaye Shumack Sunflower Drawing Prize ($3,000) Ellen McCalmont

Painting

Parkers Sydney Fine Art Painting Award ($1,000 voucher) Sasha Hart
John McCaughey Prize ($740) Marina Yang
The Derivan Acrylics Award for Excellence in Painting ($1,000 voucher) Til Kathriner
Troy Quinliven  Award Highly Commended ($1,000 voucher) Sasha Hart
Troy Quinliven  Award ($2,000 voucher) India Jablonski
Bettina McMahon Painting Prize ($3,000) Alexys Hunter

Photomedia

Kayell Australia Photography Award ($350 Voucher) Diane Barnetson
Photoaccess Residency Award (Residency) Ivy Riddle

Printmaking

Artscene Printmaking Prize (2 x $125 voucher) Lola Thompson and Marnie Tomczyk
Parkers Sydney Fine Art Printmaking Award ($500 voucher) Josie Kearney
Jenny Robinson Print Studio Prize (Residency) Jack Oliver Owen
Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios Printmaking Award (studio) Tallulah Stein
Megalo Studio and Gallery Residency Award Residency) Fergus Berney Gibson
Bettina McMahon Printmaking Prize (2x $1,500) Georgia Wilkinson and Joshua McElwee

Sculpture

Parkers Sydney Fine Art Sculpture Award ($500 voucher) Cade Aslaugh
Minerva Sculpture Prize ($500) Milla Watts
Dr John Vallance Prize for Sculpture ($1,500) Dawn McGuire

Open Awards

NAVA Ignition Prize for Professional Practice (Membership) Harri Barnes
Studio W Exhibition Prize (Exhibition) Edwina Barton
Schmick Contemporary Exhibition Prize (Exhibition) Milla Watts
The Foundations Squatters Residency (Residency) Liss Finney and Alice Martin
Harvey Galleries National Art School Exhibition Prize (Exhibition) Vicki Potter
Tresor Murace
Keely Clarke
Liss Finney
Lisa Stonham
Danae Tsapilis
Annabel Boyd
Kate Hadley
Olivia King
Luuk Zilich
Shirley Randell Student Award ($1,000) Jessie Rifkin
NAS Library Artists’ Book Annual Award Grad ($500 and membership) Edwina Barton
NAS Library Artists’ Book Annual Award Postgrad ($750 and membership) Fergus Berney-Gibson
Prix Yves Hernot Award of Merit ($1,300) Lisa Stonham
Arts-Matter’s Creative Futures Award (Membership) BFA
Shaun Anderson
Annabel Sutton
Kyiesha Booth
Rose Blunt
Jade Mosca
Harri Barnes
Emily Heath
Genevieve Jobes
Til Kathriner
Elysia Vernis Ling
Abbey Vella
Alice Royds
Janet Jiahui Wu
Samantha Klein
William Potanin
MFA
Omi McCurdie
Luna Gui
Beth Perry
Sadie Wheelan
Tresor Murace
Isabella Allanson
Bansi Joshi
Hayley Atkins
Aislinn Connolly
Kenya Peterson
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Final call! This is your last chance to apply for our BFA degree for 2026.
 
Applications close 29 January.
 
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Join us from 6–9pm on Thursday 22 January for the opening of SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art.

Featuring Ben Aitken, Howard Arkley, BAGL, BREAK, Andrew Browne, Daniel Crooks, Adam Cullen, Mikala Dwyer, Dale Frank, Shaun Gladwell, Brendan Huntley, Rhys John Kaye, Luke Kennedy, LAZY, Mim Libro, Fiona Lowry, Eddie Martin, MACH, Tony McGillick, Paul McNeil, TV Moore, Callum Morton, Tresor Murace, Sidney Nolan, POWER, Ben Quilty, Scott Redford, Reko Rennie, RUM, Leslie Rice, Joan Ross, Khaled Sabsabi, Tim Silver, SNAIL, SPICE, Bridget Stehli, Maya Stocks, Latai Taumoepeau & TAVEN

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Presented as part of @sydney_festival.

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Sidney Nolan, ‘Untitled’, 1983, spray can enamel on canvas, Nolan Collection, managed by Canberra Museum and Gallery on behalf of the Australian Government
Marking 20 years of the National Art School Gallery, we are thrilled to share this year's program of ambitious group and solo exhibitions that foster critical appreciation and innovative art practice.
 
SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art
17 January – 11 April
Opening: Thurs 22 January, 6pm
Bringing together over thirty of Australia's most dynamic artists united by one charged medium: spray paint, presented as part of @sydney_festival.
 
QUEER CONTEMPORARY 
Liz Bradshaw: I didn't expect to live this long
13 February – 7 March
Opening: Thurs 12 February, 6pm
Experience a large-scale sculpture and installation by NAS alum Liz Bradshaw as part of @sydneymardigras.
 
Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth
1 May – 11 July
Opening: Thurs 30 April, 6pm
Presented with the @instituteofmodernart, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition by Sydney-based artist and NAS alum Mitch Cairns.
 
Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste
31 July – 25 October
Opening: Thurs 30 July, 6pm
Celebrating the legacy of NAS alum and one of Australia's most beloved painters, Margaret Olley AC.
 
The Postgrad Show 
6–15 November
 
The Grad Show
4–13 December

Full program 🔗 in bio.
 
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Howard Arkley, 'Triple fronted', 1987, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mollie and Jim Gowing Bequest Fund 2014 © The Estate of Howard Arkley, courtesy Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales
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