2025 Program
Friday 14 February – Saturday 8 March 2025
Building 25 Project Space
GESTURE AND TRACE
Saturday 12 April – Friday 2 May 2025
Building 25 Project Space
Presented by the National Centre for Drawing, in conjunction with Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025
24th DOBELL DRAWING PRIZE
Friday 11 April – Saturday 21 June 2025
NAS Gallery
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2025
Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 September 2025
Booth J12, Carriageworks
THE NEIGHBOUR AT THE GATE
Friday 11 July – Saturday 18 October 2025
NAS Gallery
TOURING
DOBELL DRAWING PRIZE #23
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Saturday 2 September – Sunday 5 November 2023
Grafton Regional Gallery
Saturday 25 November 2023 – Sunday 4 February 2024
Cowra Regional Art Gallery
Sunday 24 March – Sunday 12 May 2024
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Saturday 25 May – Sunday 28 July 2024
Glasshouse Regional Gallery
Saturday 31 August – Sunday 24 November 2024
Tamworth Regional Gallery
Saturday 1 February 2025 – Sunday 6 April 2025
South East Centre for Contemporary Art – Bega
Saturday 10 May – Saturday 28 June 2025
Now open in Building 25 Project Space — Liz Bradshaw `I didn`t expect to live this long`.
For this year`s Queer Contemporary, NAS alum Liz Bradshaw presents an exhibition of large-scale sculpture and installation works that offer a personal and political queering of time, space, materiality, and ideas. Integrating new works alongside a fragment of an artwork created at NAS in the 1990s, the installation folds together the artist`s personal experiences with the complex histories of the school`s site and the broader Darlinghurst area, which served as an epicentre of Australian queer history.
On view until 7 March. Monday to Saturday, 11am–5pm.
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Installation view: Zan Wimberley
Feb 13
Students: spaces are still available in Drawing Week 2026 workshops!
These free 4-day workshops run the week before classes commence and are exclusively for students entering their 2nd and 3rd year of the BFA at NAS.
Select from one of 12 distinct focus areas and start the year with a full immersion in the process of making, looking at and thinking about drawing.
Learn more 🔗 in bio.
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Photos: Peter Morgan
Feb 10
Featured in the @sydneymorningherald`s Spectrum — SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art.
Co-curator @fionalowry shares, “Graffiti doesn’t so much ‘lose value’ in the gallery as shift value. On the street, it holds power through risk, speed, territory and peer recognition. In the gallery, different things become visible: form, discipline, lineage and the deep relationship to authorship and mark-making. Part of what the exhibition tries to do is hold those two value systems in tension rather than pretend one replaces the other.”
SEARCHERS continues at the National Art School Gallery until April 11. Open Monday to Saturday, 11am–5pm.
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Installation views: Zan Wimberley
Feb 9
Work at the National Art School!
We`re recruiting a Head of Postgraduate Studies to lead and shape our postgraduate programs, including BFA (Hons), MFA and DFA.
Applications close Sunday 8 March 2026, 5pm.
Learn more 🔗 in bio.
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The Postgrad Show, 2025, photos: Peter Morgan
Feb 6
Opening 12 February — Queer Contemporary, as part of @sydneymardigras
This year`s edition presents `Liz Bradshaw: I didn`t expect to live this long` — an exhibition of large-scale sculpture and installation works that offer a personal and political queering of time, space, materiality, and idea — with student exhibitions organised by Jack Oliver Owen and nikita lelu.
Join us for the opening night on Thursday 12 February, from 6–9pm.
RSVP 🔗 in bio.
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Liz Bradshaw, `Two Pair`, 2023
Feb 1
The National Art School acknowledges that for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and for many other Australians, January 26 is a day of sorrow — marking deep loss, as well as survival.
Across Australia today, communities are coming together to reflect, connect and mark the day respectfully. The National Art School is committed to listening, learning and moving forward together.
For information about events visit antar.org.au and https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/australia-day-sydney
Jan 26
