Alumni Exhibitions

Alberoni Beach, LIDO Venice, Italy
Fit the slit
2 October – 2019
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Jennifer Mehra as one half of duo Maslen & Mehra.
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Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
LOCAZTION
19 October – 3 February 2019
Fiona Hall is a NAS alumna and Fellow.
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Blue Door Print Studio Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Paddock postcard show
6 October – 3 November
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumni Tania Alexander, Opie (Bianca Burns), Natalia Dzwigala, Annelies Jahn, Michelle Le Dain, Caroline McGregor, Anya Pesce, Lisa Sharp, Laura Sutton, Samantha Stephenson, Lisa Tolcher, Sean Wadey, Oliver Wagner and Suzi Zglinicki.
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Eygalieres, France
Festival of Art, Music and Poetry, Sous les Feuilles d’Automne
29 September – 28 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Nicole Kelly.
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Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Anne Zahalka: Der Wanderer zum Schlosse kam…
5 October – 28 October
Anne Zahalka is a NAS alumna.
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Parc Floral de Paris
Salon Réalités Nouvelles Abstractions, Paris, France
20 October – 27 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Peter De Lorenzo and Jan Handel.
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Q Park
Protocol
5 October – 7 October
Group exhibition featuring of NAS alumna Jennifer Mehra as one half of duo Maslen & Mehra.
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220 Creative Space
David Manley: the post traumatic urbanist
4 October – 14 October
David Manley is a NAS Photomedia Lecturer.
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220 Creative Space
Pink
18 October – 28 October
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumnae Kirsten Drewes, Jan Handel, Emma Kirby, Michelle Le Dain, Melinda Marshman, Elizabeth Rankin and Helen Redmond.
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583 Elizabeth Street Projects
Nicole Kelly: BUNDANON | TASMANIA | PROVENCE
14 October
Nicole Kelly is a NAS alumna.
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aMBUSH Gallery at Darling Quarter
Art for the Planet: Field
25 September – 27 October
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumna Ro Murray and staff member Jane Gilling.
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Annette Larkin Fine Art
Robert Klippel: Poetically Microscopic
18 October – 17 November
Robert Klippel was a NAS alumnus.
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Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park
Salient: Contemporary Artists at the Western Front
22 October – 17 February
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellow Wendy Sharpe, alumni Harrie Fasher, Idris Murphy, Luke Sciberras and staff member Michelle Hiscock.
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ARO Gallery
Robyn Yeoman: Industry
2 October – 14 October
Robyn Yeoman is a NAS alumna.
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ARO Gallery
Randal Arvilla: Terra Habitatur
17 October – 28 October
Randal Arvilla is a NAS alumnus.
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Art Atrium
Paul Connor
10 October – 27 October
Paul Connor is a NAS alumnus.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales
Playback: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018
7 July – 21 October
Selected artists include NAS alumnus Nick Strike.
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Artarmon Galleries
Clem Millward
13 October – 31 October
Clement Millward is a NAS alumnus.
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Artbank
In a world of wounds
30 August – 9 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Sarah Mosca.
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Barometer Gallery
Shells
3 October – 20 October
Barbara Rogers is a NAS alumna.
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Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Michelle Collocott: Three Ponds Series
Current – 9 December
Michelle Collocott is a NAS alumna.
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Bega Valley Regional Gallery
The Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
26 October – 8 December
Finalists include current student Marie Mansfield, and NAS alumni Lucy Culliton, Phil James, Alun Rhys-Jones and James Rogers.
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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Blue Mountains Botanica
25 August – 14 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus James Blackwell.
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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Contemporary Gallipoli
20 October – 25 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus Stephen Copland.
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Bondi Beach –Tamarama Beach
Sculpture by the Sea
18 October – 4 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Orest Keywan, Leo Loomans, James McCallum, Dale Miles, Ron Robertson-Swann, Paul Selwood and Michael Snape.
Congratulations to Dale Miles for making the Decade Club and Orest Keywan for making the Double Decade Club!
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Bondi Pavilion Gallery
Traces of Places
30 October – 18 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Mason Kimber, Marisa Purcell, Wendy Murray and Nicola Smith.
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Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Moving Histories // Future Projections
28 September – 11 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Joan Ross.
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Campbelltown Arts Centre
We are all connected to Campbelltown (one way or another)
11 August – 14 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni what and Shireen Taweel.
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Campbell Project Space
A show for love
12 October, 6-8pm
Group exhibition featuring work by current students Bridget Stehli Curnow, Gabriella Lo Presti, NAS alumni Akira Alvarez, Anna May Henry, Ryan Hancock, Drew Connor Holland, Annalisa Ferraris, Dan Kyle, Steven Latimer, Lucy O’Doherty, Ondine Seabrook, Cameron Skelton, Sean Wadey, Thomas Whelan, Siena White, Zara Williams.
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Cement Fondu
Warm Bodies
6 October – 25 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnae Justine Varga and Juz Kitson.
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Chalk Horse Gallery
Nathan Hawkes: Daytime Shame
18 October – 10 November
Nathan Hawkes is a NAS alumnus.
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Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Clay Intersections
14 September – 10 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Tania Rolland.
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COMA Gallery
Mason Kimber: Slanted Mansions
13 September – 13 October
Mason Kimber is a NAS alumnus.
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Defiance Gallery
Group exhibition
12 September – 20 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellows Ann Thomson and Peter Powditch and alumni Peter Godwin, Clara Hali, Roy Jackson and Joe Furlonger.
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Defiance Gallery
6 Artists | 7 Days: The AWC Newhaven Exhibition
23 September – 25 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellow Ann Thomson and alumni Joe Furlonger, Dan Kyle and Paul Hopmeier.
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East Sydney Doctors Gallery
Anthony Cahill: Visiting
16 October – 8 December
Anthony Cahill is a NAS alumnus and staff member.
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Eden Gardens
Eden Unearthed
1 September – March 2019
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Marta Ferracin.
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Frances Keevil Gallery
The Triumph of Venus
17 October – 4 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Bahman Kermany and Nicole Sacks.
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Gaffa Gallery
Katrina Garcia: La Cente
25 October – 5 November
Katrina Garcia is a NAS alumna.
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Gosford Regional Gallery
Gosford Art Prize
15 September – 18 November
Winner Stephanie Monteith is a NAS staff member. Other finalists include current student Brett Anthony Moore, alumni Robert Bennett, Pamela Honeyfield, Yvonne Langshaw, Jocelyn Maughan, Prue Platt-Hepworth, Jordan Richardson (Commended), David van Nunen, Willemina Villari, Madelaine Williams and staff members Simon Hodgson and Graham Marchant.
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Gosford Regional Gallery
Gosford Ceramics Prize
15 September – 18 November
Winner Keiko Matsui is a NAS alumna.
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Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Coarse Stories
19 October – 1 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Catherine Clayton-Smith, Phil James, Ray Monde and staff members Nick Collerson, Joe Frost and Kate Mitchell.
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Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
Lifeblood Square 1
6 October – 27 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Margaret Ackland, Melissah Chalker, Pamela Leung, Montessa Maack, and Ceramics Lecturer Stephen Bird.
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Grafton Regional Art Gallery
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award
27 October – 9 December
Finalists include NAS alumni Todd Fuller, Geoff Harvey, Hyun-Hee Lee, Peta Minnici, Craig Waddell, Greg Warburton and staff members Andrew Antoniou, Anthony Cahill and Nicci Haynes.
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Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Elsewhere: Travels to Syria, Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Central Asia
29 September – 4 November
Wendy Sharpe is a NAS Fellow and Bernard Ollis is a former Director of the School.
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Hazelhurst Arts Centre
Kevin McKay: There and back again: Paintings from the Shire and beyond
10 October – 2 December
Kevin McKay is a NAS alumnus.
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Home @735
Materiality
17 October – 18 November
Group exhibition featuring work by current MFA student Kirtika Kain, alumnae Sarah Goffman, Madeleine Preston and staff member Anita Larkin.
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Hornsby Library and Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre
Hornsby Art Prize
17 October – 28 October
Finalists include current students Hugh Van Schaick and Ben Walsh, NAS alumni David Asher Brook, Dean Brown, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Geoff Harvey, Marjatta Kaukomaa, Tania Mason, Caroline McGregor, Dani McKenzie, Jenny Pollak, Anabel Walters and Greg Warburton.
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Incinerator Art Space
Christine Druitt-Preston: Variations on a theme
24 October – 11 November
Christine Druitt-Preston is a NAS alumna.
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Kerrie Lowe Gallery
Form | Surface | Structure: Ceramic Sculpture
21 September – 16 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Monika Scarrabelotti.
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King Street Gallery on William
Jenny Sages: Lest I forget
9 October – 3 November
Jenny Sages is a NAS alumna.
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Kudos Gallery
Familiar Intervention
2 October – 20 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus Alexander Latham.
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Kudos Gallery
Tracing the archipelago
30 October – 17 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus and staff member James Nguyen.
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Library Stairwell Gallery
Noise
25 September – 26 October
Group exhibition of third year Photomedia students Alex Moulis, Claudia Brand, Curtis Ceapa, Ella Rynehart, Elyse Howe, Harley Lynch, Miranda Huang and Walter Jensen.
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Lilac City
Currency
13 October – 21 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of Photomedia Lecturer Marian Tubbs.
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.M Contemporary
Culture Pop
11 October – 25 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of alumnae Aly Indermuhle and Anya Pesce.
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Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Impart
19 October – 17 March 2019
Group exhibition featuring the work of TAFE NSW Ceramics teachers, including NAS alumni Nicole Lister, Keiko Matsui and staff member Simone Fraser.
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Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Octennial
7 September – 14 October
Exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus and Fellow Reg Mombassa (aka Chris O’Doherty) and his brother Peter O’Doherty.
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Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Natural Collection
19 October – 17 March 2019
Group exhibition featuring the work of current student Tamsin Salehian and NAS alumnae Susan Baran, Sue Matthews and Ruth Thompson.
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Martin Browne Contemporary
Ildiko Kovacs: New Work
20 September – 14 October
Ildiko Kovacs is a NAS alumna.
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Martin Browne Contemporary
Fiona Lowry: The ties that bind
18 October – 11 November
Fiona Lowry is a NAS alumna.
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MAY SPACE
Kevin McKay: Overpass: paintings from the urban commute
26 September – 20 October
Kevin McKay is a NAS alumnus.
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Meroogal
Meroogal Women’s Art Prize
22 September – 30 March 2019
Finalists include Fellow Wendy Sharpe, current students Wendy Miller, Sassy Park and Ebony Russell, alumna Sylvie Veness, and staff member Anita Larkin.
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Michael Reid Murrundi
Denise Faulkner: Garden Party
26 October – 25 November
Denise Faulkner is a NAS alumna.
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Mosman Art Gallery
2018 Mosman Art Prize
26 September – 18 November
Winner Natasha Walsh is a NAS alumna and DFA candidate. Other finalists include current students Jacqueline Hennessy and Marie Mansfield, NAS alumni Janis Clarke, Martin Claydon, Lucy Culliton, Annalisa Ferraris, Becky Gibson, Kyra Henley, Lucy Hennessy, Anna May Henry, Alan Jones, Dylan Jones, Jumaadi, Samuel Massey, Kevin McKay, Matilda Michell, Richard Rosebery, Megan Seres, Jade Sibinovski, Remnim Alexander Tayco, Eva Troyeur-Gibson, Naomi White, Ana Young, Zoe Young and staff members John Bokor, Michelle Hiscock and Rodney Pople.
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Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
Mechelle Bounpraseuth: Westside story
5 July – 9 December
Mechelle Bounpraseuth is a current MFA student.
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Museum of Sydney
Bohemian Harbour: Artists of Lavender Bay
1 September – 25 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Martin Sharp, Garry Shead and Tim Storrier.
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Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary
James Drinkwater: Looking for urchins and Louis Ferrari
11 October – 3 November
James Drinkwater is a NAS alumnus.
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National Art School Gallery
National Art, Part 1
14 August – 27 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Charles Blackman OBE, Les Blakebrough AM, Euphemia Bostock, Bill Brown, Mitch Cairns, Sophie Cape, Kevin Connor, Lucy Culliton, Elisabeth Cummings OAM, Karla Dickens, Ken Done AM, Merilyn Fairskye, Fiona Foley, Todd Fuller, Adrienne Gaha, Peter Godwin, Sarah Goffman, Fiona Hall AO, Michael Johnson, Alan Jones, Jan King, Juz Kitson, Ildiko Kovacs, Fiona Lowry, Dani McKenzie, Marie McMahon, Guy Maestri, Tim Maguire, Reg Mombassa (Chris O’Doherty), Idris Murphy, Catherine O’Donnell, Robert Owen, Peter Powditch AM, Leslie Rice, Joan Ross, Julie Rrap, Bill Samuels, Jeffrey Samuels, Luke Sciberras, Garry Shead, Gria Shead, Nicola Smith, Michael Snape, Tim Storrier AM, Ann Thomson, Ken Unsworth AM, Justine Varga, Guy Warren AM, Coen Young, Anne Zahalka.
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National Art School Rayner Hoff Project Space
The Drawing Exchange 2018
17 September – 12 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS MFA student Kirtika Kain and NAS staff members Damian Dillon, Toni Warburton, Marian Tubbs, Chelsea Lehmann and Gary Deirmendjian.
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New England Regional Art Museum
From the Field
17 August – 14 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Gunter Christmann and Dick Watkins.
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New England Regional Art Museum
Myall Creek and beyond
8 June – 14 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna and Fellow Fiona Foley.
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Newcastle Art Gallery
Kilgour Prize
4 August – 21 October
Winner Natasha Walsh is a NAS alumna and other Finalists include current students Jacqueline Hennessy and Marie Mansfield, alumni James Drinkwater, Fiona Lowry, Elliott Nimmo, Jordan Richardson and staff members David Briggs and Rodney Pople. 
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Newcastle Art Gallery
The 1818 Project
8 September – 4 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Karla Dickens.
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NSW Parliament House
NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize
3 October – 19 October
Finalists include current student Marie Mansfield, and alumni David Asher Brook, Madeleine Cruise, Ivan Goodacre, Michelle Hiscock, Dan Kyle, Kevin McKay and Agnes Tyson.
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Orange Regional Gallery
Kevin Connor: People in the Forever One Day
29 September – 25 November
Kevin Connor is a NAS alumnus and Fellow.
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Orange Regional Gallery
2018 Kedumba Drawing Award
20 October – 2 December
Invited artists include NAS alumni Sophie Cape, Nadia Odlum, Evan Salmon, and staff members John Bokor, Kim Spooner and Noel Thurgate.
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Orange Regional Gallery
Kedumba Connections
20 October – 2 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of alumnus and staff member Jeff Rigby.
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Peacock Gallery
Nothing is as valuable as you
27 October – 2 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnae Sarah Eddowes, Hanna McKellar and Francesca Zak.
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Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest
Leonora Howlett: From the head and the heart
25 August – 11 November
Leonora Howlett is a NAS alumna.
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Project Gallery 90
Peter Berner
27 September – 10 October
Peter Berner is a NAS alumnus.
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Rex Livingston Art + Objects
Joshua Charidia: Peripheral View
13 October – 29 October
Joshua Charadia is a NAS alumnus.
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Robin Gibson Gallery
Karen Choy
27 October – 21 November
Karen Choy is a NAS alumna.
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Robin Gibson Gallery
Sandra Taylor
27 October – 21 November
Sandra Taylor is a NAS alumna.
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Saint Cloche Gallery
Alessandra Joseph: Horizon
24 October – 4 November
Alessandra Joseph is a NAS alumna.
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S.H. Ervin Gallery
Portia Geach Memorial Award
12 October – 2 December
Finalists include Fellow Wendy Sharpe, current student Marie Mansfield, NAS alumni Gina Bruce, Ann Cape, Michelle Hiscock, Josephine Josephson, Nicole Kelly, Clare Thackway, Zoe Young, and staff member Jude Rae.
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Sophie Gannon Gallery
Spring
2 October – 20 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus Guy Maestri.
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Stella Downer Fine Art
Trevor Weekes: Sublime
9 October – 3 November
Trevor Weekes is a NAS alumnus.
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Sydney Olympic Park
Gary Deirmendjian: drop and drape
31 July – 31 October
Gray Deirmendjian is a NAS alumnus and sessional Sculpture Lecturer.
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Thienny Lee Gallery
Joanna Gambotto: Everyday Mix-Ups
27 September – 16 October
Joanna Gambotto is a NAS alumna.
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UNSW Galleries
John Fries Award 2018
29 September – 3 November
Finalists include NAS alumni James Nguyen and Leyla Stevens.
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Watters Gallery
James Rogers
16 October – 3 November
James Rogers is a NAS alumnus.
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White Rhino Art Space
Make your mark
11 October – 3 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS student Maricelle Olivier.
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Wollongong Art Gallery
Here + Now
Current – 9 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna India Mark.
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Wollongong Art Gallery
Charmed
Current – 9 December
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumni Stephen Benwell and Clare Thackway.
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Wollongong Art Gallery
East meets West
14 April – 11 November
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumna Sarah Goffman.
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Woollahra Council
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
20 October – 11 November
Finalists include current student Matilda Kubany-Deane and NAS alumni Rebecca Gallo, Eloise Rankine, Craig Waddell and Fiona Watson.
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Canberra Museum and Gallery
Crafting the house on the Hill: Art, Design and the Building of Australian Parliament House
Current – 4 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellow Fiona Hall.
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Lake Burley Griffin
Contour 556
5 October – 28 October
Public art festival that features work by NAS alumnus and Sculpture Lecturer, Gary Deirmendjian.
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Noosa Regional Gallery
As far as the eye can see
6 September – 14 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus Gary Jolley.
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Noosa Regional Art Gallery
Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize
19 October – 2 December
Finalists include NAS alumnus Todd Fuller, Alun Rhys Jones and Catherine O’Donnell.
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Contemporary Art Tasmania
Beyond the Field (Still)
Current – 4 November
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumnus Ron Robertson-Swann.
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Adelaide Central Gallery
The Drawing Exchange 2018
17 September – 12 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS MFA student Kirtika Kain and NAS staff members Damian Dillon, Toni Warburton, Marian Tubbs, Chelsea Lehmann and Gary Deirmendjian.
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Hahndorf Academy Art Gallery
Heysen Prize for Landscape
6 October – 9 December
Finalists include NAS alumna Megan Seres.
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Hugo Michell Gallery
Word
30 August – 13 October
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Nana Ohnesorge and Philjames.
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SASA Gallery
The Art and Consequence of Collaboration
4 October – 26 October
Group exhibition featuring NAS alumna Helen Pynor.
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University of South Australia
Spectra 2018
11 October – 26 October
NAS alumna Helen Pynor presents a symposium lecture and video work at Spectra 2018.
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
Black Swan Prize for Portraiture
27 October – 26 November
Finalists include MFA student Marie Mansfield, NAS alumni Antoinette Barbouttis, Martin Claydon, and Nicole Kelly,
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Fremantle Arts Centre
Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2018
14 September – 4 November
Finalists include NAS Printmaking Lecturer Carolyn Craig.
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