Zoe Young wins the Portia Geach Memorial Prize

Congratulations to NAS alumna Zoe Young who has won the $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award with her portrait of Bruce Beresford! This prestigious award is presented to Australian female artists ‘for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in the art, letters or the sciences’

Image: Zoe Young, Drawing Storyboards (Bruce Beresford, film and opera director) acrylic on plywood, 120 x 160 cm

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Join us for the closing party for The Neighbour at the Gate – 'Afterglow', headlined by Miss Kannina, and featuring performances by HYLANDER, Rocky Stallone, BRINA, Kuya Hennessy and DJ Court Jester. This free, 18+ concert will be a night to remember! 

Thursday 16 October 2025 
4.30pm – 10pm 
Cell Block Theatre 

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The Neighbour at the Gate has been made possible with the generous support of the NSW Government through its Blockbusters Funding initiative.
Karatsu ceramicist Yukiko Tsuchiya (@tsuchiyayukiko) and curator Kathryn Hunyor (@artspeople_au) delivered two very special workshops in the teaching studios of the Ceramics Department at the National Art School (NAS), in an exciting collaboration between The Japan Foundation (@jpfsydney), Sydney, the NAS Ceramics Department and the National Art School.

Peek inside the wheel-throwing and hand-coiling masterclasses that took place.
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