QUEER CONTEMPORARY
I didn’t expect to live this long is an exhibition of large-scale sculpture and installation works that offers a personal and political queering of time, space, materiality, and ideas by NAS alumna Liz Bradshaw. Integrating new works alongside a fragment of an artwork created at the National Art School in the 1990s, the installation folds together the artist’s personal experiences with the complex histories of the NAS site and the broader Darlinghurst area, which served as an epicentre of Australian queer history. Typical of Bradshaw’s minimalist practice in sculpture, the work blurs fiction and reality, inviting us into a space that is in itself deeply queer.
EXHIBITION
13 February – 8 March 2026
Building 25 Project Space
The Postgrad Show 2025 closes this Sunday 16 November.
Visit in person at NAS Galleries or online at the link in bio.
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Installation photography: Peter Morgan
Nov 14
Introducing Jasmine Greenwood, Bethany Hardidge, Paige Hottwagner, and Mel Jhey, four of our graduating students in Ceramics.
Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Grad Show Opening Night, Thursday 4 December.
RSVP link in bio.
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Jasmine Greenwood, `From Frida, 2025`, buff raku earthenware saggar fired with rock salt, steel scourer, eggshell, seaweed, onion skin, oyster shell, coconut fibre, avocado, garlic peel, coffee ground, hair, banana skins, approx. 30 x 26 x 14 cm
Bethany Hardidge, `Oh Em Gee`, earthenware paper clay, underglaze, 7 x 30 x 17 cm
Paige Hottwagner, `Morphogene`, glaze on stoneware paper clay, 21 x 18 x 18 cm
Mel Jhey, `Big Mouth`, stoneware, glaze, 77 x 18 x 21 cm
Portrait: @soybased_snack
Documentation: Peter Morgan
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@beths.artstuff
@paigeceramics_25
@meljheyart
Nov 13
Introducing Cristelle Cabrera and Caitlin Galvez, two of our graduating students in Ceramics.
Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Grad Show Opening Night, Thursday 4 December.
RSVP link in bio.
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Cristelle Cabrera, `Vengo a darte un abrazo, pero amam waqachiwankicho!/ I come to give you a hug, but don’t make me cry!`, terracotta clay with underglaze, glaze and cotton string, 126 x 50 x 36 cm
Caitlin Galvez, `Don’t mess with the Yakult`, unglazed porcelain, 31 x 20 cm
Portrait: @soybased_snack
Documentation: Peter Morgan
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@caity_gal
Nov 13
The National Art School is proud to present The Grad Show, our major end-of-year exhibition showcasing the work of the 2025 Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) graduate students.
Join us for the opening night on Thursday 4 December.
RSVP link in bio.
The Grad Show
5–14 December 2025
Nov 12
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate our 2025 cohort at last night`s opening of The Postgrad Show.
The Postgrad Show is now on view across the NAS campus until 16 November.
Learn more and visit the online exhibition at the link in bio.
Nov 7
Opening tonight, The Postgrad Show.
Join us from 6–10pm to celebrate the work of our graduating Master of Fine Art (MFA) and Doctor of Fine Art (DFA) students, exhibited throughout the NAS campus.
RSVP link in bio.
Nov 6
