Dr Liz Bradshaw

Dr Liz Bradshaw

Wednesday 5 March
12.45 – 1.30pm
Building 25 Project Space

Chaosophy and the body: the body that makes, that writes, that sings, that desires 

Chaosophy sets up an intergenerational dialogue between artists. It is a provocation about language, especially that designed to make us invisible, and how we remake, reclaim, name, and create with it. It is also a recontextualisation of queer visual histories that explores the relationships between art and activism, poetry and performance, marginalisation and the mainstream.  While the exhibition is about language as a material and the queering of language as a form of activism, the works also share a nuanced engagement with the complex, mutually reinforcing intersections of systemic and social forms of violence.  

  

Dr Liz Bradshaw 

Bradshaw is an artist, cultural researcher, and lecturer and is the curator of Chaosophy (February 14 – March 8, 2025) at NAS.

She currently teaches sculpture at NAS; and on the Masters of Design program at UNSW Art, Design, and Architecture. She has recently curated exhibitions including I want a future that lives up to my past (NAS, Queer Contemporary, 2022); A thousand beautiful things (Clifford Chance, 2023), Ward 17 South (Qtopia, in partnership with St Vincent’s Hospital, NAS 2023).  She was the lead curator for the opening exhibitions of Qtopia Sydney (February 2024) the largest queer museum in the world.

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Join us from 6–9pm on Thursday 22 January for the opening of SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art.

Featuring Ben Aitken, Howard Arkley, BAGL, BREAK, Andrew Browne, Daniel Crooks, Adam Cullen, Mikala Dwyer, Dale Frank, Shaun Gladwell, Brendan Huntley, Rhys John Kaye, Luke Kennedy, LAZY, Mim Libro, Fiona Lowry, Eddie Martin, MACH, Tony McGillick, Paul McNeil, TV Moore, Callum Morton, Tresor Murace, Sidney Nolan, POWER, Ben Quilty, Scott Redford, Reko Rennie, RUM, Leslie Rice, Joan Ross, Khaled Sabsabi, Tim Silver, SNAIL, SPICE, Bridget Stehli, Maya Stocks, Latai Taumoepeau & TAVEN

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Presented as part of @sydney_festival.

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Sidney Nolan, ‘Untitled’, 1983, spray can enamel on canvas, Nolan Collection, managed by Canberra Museum and Gallery on behalf of the Australian Government
Marking 20 years of the National Art School Gallery, we are thrilled to share this year's program of ambitious group and solo exhibitions that foster critical appreciation and innovative art practice.
 
SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art
17 January – 11 April
Opening: Thurs 22 January, 6pm
Bringing together over thirty of Australia's most dynamic artists united by one charged medium: spray paint, presented as part of @sydney_festival.
 
Queer Contemporary: Liz Bradshaw
13 February – 7 March
Opening: Thurs 12 February, 6pm
Experience a large-scale sculpture and installation by NAS alum Liz Bradshaw as part of @sydneymardigras.
 
Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth
1 May – 11 July
Opening: Thurs 30 April, 6pm
Presented with the @instituteofmodernart, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition by Sydney-based artist and NAS alum Mitch Cairns.
 
Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste
31 July – 25 October
Opening: Thurs 30 July, 6pm
Celebrating the legacy of NAS alum and one of Australia's most beloved painters, Margaret Olley AC.
 
The Postgrad Show 
6–15 November
 
The Grad Show
4–13 December

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Howard Arkley, 'Triple fronted', 1987, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mollie and Jim Gowing Bequest Fund 2014 © The Estate of Howard Arkley, courtesy Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales
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