Harry de Vries and Emryn Ingram-Shute

Harry de Vries and Emryn Ingram-Shute

Wednesday 7 May
12.45 – 1.30pm
Cell Block Theatre

International residencies provide a unique opportunity to develop your practice and studies in a global centre of artistic excellence. This experience enables you to immerse yourself in a new arts context, market, community and culture. This Art Forum will feature recent recipients of two major NAS residencies: Emryn Ingram Shute (La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris) and Harry de Vries (The British School in Rome).

The three-month residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts offers a recent NAS Graduate or Academic staff member the opportunity for dedicated focus on their practice in the heart of Paris. There are four three-month residency periods on offer each calendar year. In partnership with over 130 French and international organisations, the Cité welcomes more than 300 artists each month from a wide range of disciplines. The British School at Rome is a centre of interdisciplinary research excellence, supporting the full range of arts, humanities and social sciences. This annual residency offers a recent NAS MFA or DFA Graduate, or academic staff member, the opportunity to live and work in a catered en-suite studio for 3 months (generally April to June), as part of an international research community of artists, academics, fellows and staff. The British School at Rome was founded in 1901 and is just north of Rome’s historic centre in the Valle Giulia.

Emryn Ingram-Shute (Cité Recipient) is an emerging sculptor who works across multiple disciplines. Considering her own affective reactions and vulnerabilities, she uses humour and play to address socio-political inequities with intuitive combinations of found objects and created forms. At its heart, her practice seeks to interrogate power structures embedded within objects to reveal how our relationship to materiality is not neutral but intimately layered. She has recently returned from the awarded Onslow Storrier NAS Cité des Arts residency in Paris. Represented by the Dominik Mersch Gallery, her works are held in private collections across Australia.

Harry de Vries (BSR Recipient) is an artist and writer based on Gadigal and Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. His creative practice is situated in the tension between the material of daily life and simulacra: objects are brought into the studio and extended through processes of replication, casting, or reproduction, before being returned into the ‘real world’ as installations alongside found objects. The resulting work undermines the necessity of everyday life and generates a kind of ‘thin place’ where new ways of being in and seeing the world are possible. He holds a BFA and MFA from NAS. In 2021, he was awarded the Clitheroe Scholarship and the Brandon Trakman Prize, and in 2023, the British School at Rome Residency Award. In 2024, he was a co-director on the board 2024 of Schmick Contemporary, an artist-run initiative in Haymarket.

Can’t attend the Art Forum? Join our International Residencies webinar to learn about the overseas residency programs on offer to NAS Alumni & Staff. 

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Jack's award winning work 'Heavy Grit' is on display in the Ramsay Art Prize 2025 exhibition which opens tomorrow, Saturday 31 May

Jack Ball with 'Heavy Grit' in Ramsay Art Prize 2025, Art Gallery of South Australia, (@agsa.adelaide) Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed
Thank you to outgoing Chair Susan Rothwell AM & welcome to incoming Chair Jeff Weeden. The National Art School would like to express its deepest gratitude to Susan Rothwell AM, whose term as Chair of the NAS Board concludes on 31 May 2025. 

At the same time, we are pleased to announce and warmly welcome Jeff Weeden as the incoming Chair of the NAS Board, effective 1 June 2025.

Jeff has served as a Director on the NAS Board since 2019 and currently chairs the Finance and Audit Committee, a position he has held since 2023.  For the full announcement, click the link in the bio.
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) starts today! As part of our NAS NRW program, we invite you to a special screening of the documentary 'Kindred' (2023) in our Cell Block Theatre. The directors Gillian Moody and Adrian Russell Wills will be joining us for the screening.

'There's the black world, and then there's the white world. I felt walking in each of them was complicated enough. To bring those together would just make it even harder.' (Kindred: Trailer)

'Kindred' is a deeply personal feature-length documentary that delves into the emotional landscape of family, love, and loss through the eyes of two close friends.'

Limited capacity - click the link in bio to reserve your seats.
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