Harry de Vries and Emryn Ingram-Shute

Harry de Vries and Emryn Ingram-Shute

2025-04-14

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.

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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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Last days to make a tax dedudictible donation and support the next generation of artists through the Pathways Program.

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We are seeking candidates with strong experience in the areas of extensive audit, governance or philanthropy experience, and strong art and education sector knowledge to join the National Art School Board of Directors.

Our mission is to be a centre of excellence for the provision of higher education and research, scholarship and professional practice in the visual arts and related fields. Members of the Board play a vital role in long-term strategic planning and providing expert advice and support to the shareholding members and Director (CEO) on any matter relating to the school.

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We are seeking candidates with strong experience in the areas of extensive audit, governance or philanthropy experience, and strong art and education sector knowledge to join the National Art School Board of Directors.

Our mission is to be a centre of excellence for the provision of higher education and research, scholarship and professional practice in the visual arts and related fields. Members of the Board play a vital role in long-term strategic planning and providing expert advice and support to the shareholding members and Director (CEO) on any matter relating to the school.

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A new student-led, artist-run initiative joined our campus!

‘Pinpoint’ student collective (@nas_pinpoint) reactivates the notice boards outside Building 27 printmaking facility with micro-exhibitions of student work, offering students a chance to share their practice in a low-pressure, highly visible way within the student community.

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A new student-led, artist-run initiative joined our campus!

‘Pinpoint’ student collective (@nas_pinpoint) reactivates the notice boards outside Building 27 printmaking facility with micro-exhibitions of student work, offering students a chance to share their practice in a low-pressure, highly visible way within the student community.

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`Being at NAS, they were the best three years of my life so far` (Rosemary Lee, NAS Alumna 2018)

This end of financial year, support the next generation of artists through the National Art School’s Pathways Program.

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'Being at NAS, they were the best three years of my life so far' (Rosemary Lee, NAS Alumna 2018)

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We are delighted to announce Margaret Ambridge`s work `Cheek by jowl` (2024) as the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the 24th Dobell Drawing Prize. A huge congratulations to Margaret, who also won the People`s Choice Award for the 23rd Dobell Drawing Prize in 2023.

Margaret shares:

‘My primary practice is drawing. To have three very different, some say demanding, works exploring the human condition accepted for the Dobell Drawing Prize over the years is such a rare privilege and wonderful recognition of my artwork. For many years I have struggled with drawing’s place in my art practice. To me there always seems to be an external pressure suggesting that drawing is a pathway to something ‘bigger’ like a painting or a sculpture. The longevity and gravitas of the Dobell demands that drawing be seen as the final work in its own right. It’s been a long journey from drawing at the kitchen table as a child with my mother, an artist in her own right.’

See Margaret`s winning work in this final week of the 24th Dobell Drawing Prize at NAS Gallery, closing Saturday 21 June 2025.

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We are delighted to announce Margaret Ambridge's work 'Cheek by jowl' (2024) as the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the 24th Dobell Drawing Prize. A huge congratulations to Margaret, who also won the People's Choice Award for the 23rd Dobell Drawing Prize in 2023.

Margaret shares:

‘My primary practice is drawing. To have three very different, some say demanding, works exploring the human condition accepted for the Dobell Drawing Prize over the years is such a rare privilege and wonderful recognition of my artwork. For many years I have struggled with drawing’s place in my art practice. To me there always seems to be an external pressure suggesting that drawing is a pathway to something ‘bigger’ like a painting or a sculpture. The longevity and gravitas of the Dobell demands that drawing be seen as the final work in its own right. It’s been a long journey from drawing at the kitchen table as a child with my mother, an artist in her own right.’

See Margaret's winning work in this final week of the 24th Dobell Drawing Prize at NAS Gallery, closing Saturday 21 June 2025.

Plan your visit at the link in bio.
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Opening night of the 24th Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 2025, image courtesy and © the artists and National Art School, photograph: Nicole Anderson; Margaret Ambridge, ‘Cheek by jowl’, 2024, charcoal and rainwater on paper, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Mark Fitz-Gerald

Join us to celebrate the opening of `The Neighbour at the Gate` at the National Art School Gallery on Thursday 10 July.

The exhibition features new works by Jacky Cheng, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Dennis Golding (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay), Jenna Mayilema Lee (Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, KarraJarri), James Nguyen and James Tylor (Kaurna, Thura-Yura language region).

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`The Neighbour at the Gate` is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its Blockbusters Funding initiative.

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Harry de Vries and Emryn Ingram-Shute