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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Galerie MR80, Paris, France
Jo Meisner: Identity
7 November – 11 November
Jo Meisner is a NAS alumna.
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The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon, UK
Chawan: International Teabowl Exhibition
17 November – 5 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Ceramics Lecturer Sandy Lockwood.
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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Justine Youssef: All Blessings, All Curses
2 November – 16 December
Justine Youssef is a NAS alumna.
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Airspace Projects
Paul Mallam: Marrickville Streetview
2 November – 17 November
Paul Mallam is a NAS alumnus.
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A.K Bellinger Gallery
Christmas Exhibition
17 November –
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Megan Seres.
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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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Art Gallery of New South Wales
Tony Tuckson: the abstract sublime
17 November – 17 February 2019
Tony Tuckson was a NAS alumnus and staff member.
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Art Systems Wickham Gallery
Kerrie Coles: Light between the latitudes
2 November – 18 November
Kerrie Coles is a NAS alumna.
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Australian Galleries
Garry Shead
23 November – 16 December
Garry Shead 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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Australian Galleries
Jenny Bell: Some experiments underneath a horse
30 October – 18 November
Jenny Bell is a NAS alumna and former staff member.
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BAM Art Prize
9 November – 30 November
Finalists include NAS alumni Antoinette Barbouttis, Andre Bowen, Dean Brown, Penny Evans, Jasna Spiranovic and Charly Wrencher.
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Barometer Gallery
Barbara Rogers: Flow
10 November – 1 December
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
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!
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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
Fishers Ghost Art Award
3 November – 13 December
Finalists include Fellow Wendy Sharpe, current students Jade Court-Gold and Nicholas Wakeham, NAS alumni Louisa Antico, Jodie Barker, Anthony Bartok, Michael Beare, Peter Day, Corrigan Fairbairn, Renuka Fernando, Rebecca Gallo, Nick Hall, Lorna Grear, Celeste Cebra Kotevich, Matilda Michell, Machiko Motoi, Nadia Odlum, Meaghan Potter, Megan Seres, Nicola Smith, Misim Song, Venessa Starzynski, what, Samantha Whittingham and staff members Joanne Handley, Anita Larkin and Pia Larsen.
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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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Chalk Horse
Harley Ives: Cloudbusting
14 November – 1 December
Harley Ives is a NAS staff member.
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China Heights Gallery
Gabriella Lo Presti: Far Away
26 October – 4 November
Gabriella Lo Presti is a current MFA student.
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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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Culture at Work
Entropy
3 November – 17 November
Marta Ferracin and Lisa Tolcher are NAS alumnae.
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Defiance Gallery
Renata Pari-Lewis: In the fold
14 November – 14 December
Renata Pari-Lewis is a NAS alumna.
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Dominik Mersch Gallery
A certain sense of disquiet
29 November – 20 December
Gary Deirmendjian is a NAS alumnus and sessional Sculpture Lecturer.
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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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Gaffa Gallery
3 percent
22 November – 3 December
Group exhibition featuring NAS alumni from the graduating class of 2006: Christina Beaumont, Elly Carroll, Laura Clement, Kathryn Cowen, Emma Cummings, Anne Laure Druais, Clare Flanagan, Claire Flannery, Jude Fleming, Rebecca Gallo, Becky Gibson, David Grainger, Genevieve Harnett, Michelle Heldon, Jan Hodge, Bernadette Jones, Jo Molines, Shannan Sainsbury, Natalya Shinn, James Shirlaw, Kate Stehr, Sam De Teliga, Agnes Tyson, Thea Weiss and David Whitworth.
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Galerie Pompom
Possible Dream Theory #2
14 November – 16 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of current student Drew Connor Holland and alumnus Philjames.
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Gallery 9
Louise Tuckwell
28 November – 21 December
Louise Tuckwell is a NAS alumna.
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Glassroom Projects, Chapel Building, NAS
Peter Morgan: Between two memory cards: photographs that I lost or couldn’t take
15 October – 9 November
Peter Morgan is a NAS alumnus and staff member.
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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
Grace Cossington Smith Art Award
3 November – 24 November
Finalists include NAS Fellow Wendy Sharpe, current student Annabelle Wass, and alumni Amanda Fuller, Melinda Le Guay, Deborah Marks, Ro Murray, Adam Norton, Catherine O’Donnell, Sally Stokes and Lisa Woolfe.
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Grafton Regional Art Gallery
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award
27 October – 9 December
Winner Todd Fuller is a NAS alumnus. Other finalists include NAS alumni Geoff Harvey, Hyun-Hee Lee, Peta Minnici, Craig Waddell, Greg Warburton and staff members 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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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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Juniper Hall
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2 November – 16 December
Finalists include alumni Matilda Michell, Clare Thackway and Helen Young.
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King Street Gallery on William
Elisabeth Cummings: Journeys
6 November – 1 December
Elisabeth Cummings is a NAS Fellow and alumna.
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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
Tracing the archipelago
30 October – 17 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus and staff member James Nguyen.
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Lismore Regional Art Gallery
Matt O’Brien: Meander – Place and Experience
Current – 25 November
Matt O’Brien is a NAS alumnus.
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Liverpool Street Gallery
Steven Harvey: Magneto Receptor
2 November – 28 November
Steven Harvey is a NAS alumnus and Photomedia Lecturer.
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.M Contemporary
Jody Graham: After the rain
15 November – 29 November
Jody Graham is a NAS alumna.
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M2 Gallery
Kicking up dust
1 November – 14 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of current students Hamish Wallace, Ben King, Mac Mansfield, Matilda Kubany-Deane, Mackenzie Rowe, Isabella Parker and Marianna Ebersoll.
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Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Tim Maguire: Anything but still
10 November – 27 January
Tim Maguire is a NAS alumnus.
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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
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
Fiona Lowry: The ties that bind
18 October – 11 November
Fiona Lowry is a NAS alumna.
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May Space
Catherine O’Donnell: Urban Abstraction
14 November – 1 December
Catherine O’Donnell is a NAS alumna.
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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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Mosman Art Gallery
Destination Sydney Re-Imaginings
8 December – 17 March
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Robert Klippel and Michael Johnson.
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Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
Land & Title
16 November – 31 December
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumni Gunter Christmann and Justine Varga.
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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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Narek Galleries
Landscape
17 November -15 December
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS Ceramics lecturers Simone Fraser and Merran Esson.
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Newcastle Art Gallery
Floribunda: from the collection
3 November – 27 January 2019
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumni Peter Atkin and Cressida Campbell, and NAS Fellows Fiona Hall and Margaret Olley.
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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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Olsen Gallery
Sophie Cape
21 November – 9 December
Sophie Cape is a NAS alumna.
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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 Contemporary Art Space
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2018
9 November – 1 December
Finalists include current student Marie Mansfield, NAS alumni John Bokor, Madeleine Cruise, Becky Gibson, Geoff Harvey, Isabel Ricketts, Craig Waddell, Mirra Whale and staff member Stephanie Monteith.
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Project Gallery 90
Kate Hopkinson-Pointer: Light in the forest
22 November – 5 December
Kate Hopkinson-Pointer is a NAS alumna.
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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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Robin Gibson Gallery
Ted Hillyer
24 November – 22 December
Ted Hillyer is a NAS alumnus.
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Robin Gibson Gallery
Bridgette McNab
24 November – 22 December
Bridgette McNab is a NAS alumna.
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Sabbia Gallery
Earth
21 November – 15 December
Group exhibition featuring work by NAS alumna and staff member Tania Rollond.
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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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S.H. Ervin Gallery
Destination Sydney Re-Imaginings
7 December – 15 March
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellow Wendy Sharpe.
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Sheffer Gallery
Julie Williams: Tracing Threads
1 November – 10 November
Julie Williams is a NAS alumna.
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Sheffer Gallery
Lili Stromland
28 November – 8 December
Lili Stromland is a NAS alumna.
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Special Group Studios
Kiata Mason: Treasures – an ode to the objects we keep close
10 November- 25 November
Kiata Mason is a NAS alumna.
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Special Group Studios
A Painted Landscape
25 October – 4 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellows Reg Mombassa and Guy Warren and alumni Alan Jones, Dan Kyle, Idris Murphy, John Bokor, Ken Done, Lucy Culliton, Luke Sciberras and Angus Nivisen.
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STACKS Projects
Awkwardly Nothing
22 November – 9 December
Joanne Makas and Flin Sharp are NAS alumni.
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Stanley Street Gallery
Beasties
7 November – 1 December
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS Fellow Reg Mombassa, current student Elizabeth Rankin and alumna Patricia Moylan.
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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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Stocklands Balgowlah
Mia Oatley: Sydney Sparkle Strut
5 November – 11 November
Mia Oatley is a NAS alumna.
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Sydney Jewish Museum
The Fate of Things – Memory Objects and Art
1 November – 28 February 2019
Anne Zahalka is a NAS alumna.
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The Art Vault Mildura
Australian Print Triennial
31 October – 4 November
Finalists include NAS alumni Dean Brown and Roslyn Kean.
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Traffic Jam Galleries
Jenny Green: Quadrival
9 November – 30 November
Jenny Green is a NAS alumna.
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Tremains Mill
Artstate Bathurst
Steven Cavanagh: Kittens & Sunsets
1 November – 4 November
Steven Cavanagh is a NAS alumnus and staff member.
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Tortuga Studios
Modern Nostalgia
2 November – 16 November
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnae Jo Shand and Mirra Whale.
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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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UNSW Galleries
Chelsea Lehmann: The Articulate Surface
Current – 3 November
Chelsea Lehmann is a NAS staff member.
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Watters Gallery
James Rogers: Weld – recent sculpture
16 October – 3 November
James Rogers is a NAS alumnus.
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Watters Gallery
Tony Tuckson
6 November – 27 November
Tony Tuckson was a NAS alumnus and former staff member.
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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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National Library of Australia
Cook and the Pacific
22 September – 10 February 2019
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumna Karla Dickens.
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National Portrait Gallery
20/20
20 October – 10 February
Group exhibition featuring the work of NAS alumnus Andrew Bonneau.
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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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Devonport Regional Gallery
Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award
2 November – 27 January 2019
Winner Julia Davis is a sessional lecturer in Sculpture. Finalists include NAS staff member Rodney Pople.
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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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Art Gallery of Western Australia
Black Swan Prize for Portraiture
27 October – 26 November
Winner Antoinette Barbouttis is a NAS alumna. Finalists include MFA student Marie Mansfield, NAS alumni 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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