3 February – 18 March 2023

EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition Image Design Charlie Cummings

Braving Time: Contemporary Art in Queer Australia
Richard Perram OAM

3 February – 18 March 2023

NAS Galleries
Monday to Saturday
11am – 5pm
Free admission

Braving time is a queer exhibition that celebrates the work of artists who identify as part of the Australian LGBTIQA+ community. This significant exhibition has been curated by Richard Perram OAM for the National Art School in celebration of Sydney WorldPride in 2023. The artists represented in the exhibition celebrate the diverse voices of LGBTIQA+ people in contemporary Australia society, reflecting the breath of genders and sexualities within the community, including artists who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, inter-sex, asexual and non-binary.

Exhibition Image Design Charlie Cummings

Fulgora
Curated by EO Gill

3 February – 5 March 2023

The Rayner Hoff Project Space
Monday to Saturday
11am – 5pm
Free admission

Fulgora presents a suite of commissioned video works by 5 Australian-based artists that are punctuated by a selection of films programmed in collaboration with LA-based collective Dirty Looks Inc. The exhibition speaks to luxuriant video practices that disrupt conventional acts of looking and force us to ask where our pleasure begins.

Image: Luke Thurgate, Let me down gently,  2022, charcoal on gallery wall, Photo: Peter Morgan

Luke Thurgate: Adore You

3 February – 18 March 2023

The Drawing Gallery
Monday to Saturday
11am – 5pm
Free admission
The artist will be on site making this work on Wednesdays and Saturdays, 2-5pm. 

The National Art School is proud to present Adore You, a major mural drawing by artist Luke Thurgate commissioned for The Drawing Gallery. This project is programmed in parallel with the Sydney WorldPride 2023 and The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

 Adore You takes inspiration from one of the world’s treasures, the major, 15th Century polyptych Ghent Altarpiece created by painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyk. Thurgate’s work Adore You transforms the altarpiece format to create a contemporary, ephemeral artwork exploring notions of desire, hero-worship and queer subjectivity. Spanning three walls of The Drawing Gallery, the mural will be made onsite over a six-week period to coincide with Sydney WorldPride programs at the National Art School.

Installation view. Photo: Lea Simpson

Visions of QueerNAS

6 February – 5 March 2023
Opening Celebrations in conjunction with the Block Party 16 February 6–9pm

Library Stairwell Gallery
Monday to Friday
10am – 3pm
Free admission
Quinn Chen, Henry Xiang, Cadmium Mellow, Giacomo Crosilla, Christian Bonett, Dani King, Beanie Fleming, Darcy Eliza, Kate Riley

BRAVING TIME: CONTEMPORARY ART IN QUEER AUSTRALIA: Education Kit

This resource has been written in line with the Years 7-10 Visual arts Syllabus and the Higher School Certificate Visual arts Syllabus, as a guide to exploring the exhibition or as a pre- or post-visit resource. Tertiary students and the general public may also find the resource useful.

Teachers will be able to use this resource in conjunction with the works in the exhibition to engage in a critical and historical study of the art world and to investigate artists, artworks, worlds, and audiences from a range of cultural, political, historical and social perspectives and use these to inform their own artmaking practices.

In examining the works showcased in the exhibition as part of a collection, the students will gain an understanding of the value of the audience as a body of critical consumers and will appreciate their own role, as well as those of the critic, as audience members. The students’ investigation of the range of expressive forms, themes, and genres which the works encompass, will also serve to inform their artmaking.