Home: Country as Creative Process

Home: Country as Creative Process

Wednesday 20 August
12.45 – 1.30pm
Cell Block Theatre

Join Dr Michael Mossman, in his role as co-Creative Director for Home at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Australia Pavilion, in an in-depth conversation with artist Kien Situ where they will speak to the student exercise – Home: Country as Creative Process. Together they will explore heritage, creative practice, art and architecture through the interactions between cultures, Country, collaboration, and the transformative power of place-based storytelling.

Dr Michael Mossman is a lecturer and researcher from the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His work explores Indigenous knowledge systems in the built environment, cultural heritage, and Country through design, teaching, and collaborative creative practice. He is the current co-Creative Director for Home at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Australia Pavilion.

Kien Situ is an architectonic artist whose practice spans sculpture and space. Informed by his diasporic heritage at the juncture of contemporary global cultural theory with ancient sinospheric philosophies, he explores matter, ruin, distance, numerology, and time in relation to cultural dislocation. Kien’s work Shanshui [Prophecy] is currently on exhibition as part of Home at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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Don’t miss out on your chance to bid on an artwork at the NAS Gala! Get your tickets now and join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the treasures of the National Art School, our artists.

Announcing a thrilling line up of artists contributing artworks to our live and silent auction. This is your opportunity to add a special piece of art by a celebrated NAS artist to your collection.

Ann Thomson
Bernard Ollis OAM
Reg Mombassa
Eliza Gosse
Euan Macleod
Gene A'Hern
Guido Maestri
Guy Warren AM
Joan Ross
Juz Kitson
Mitch Cairns
Rosemary Lee
Wendy Sharpe AM FRSN
Zoe Young
More to come…

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Art Auction and Cocktail Party
Friday 21 November, 6.00pm – 11.30pm
Cell Block Theatre, National Art School

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Join us for the closing party for The Neighbour at the Gate – 'Afterglow', headlined by Miss Kaninna, and featuring performances by HYLANDER, Rocky Stallone, BRINA, Kuya Hennessy and DJ Court Jester. This free, 18+ concert will be a night to remember! 

Thursday 16 October 2025 
4.30pm – 10pm 
Cell Block Theatre 

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The Neighbour at the Gate has been made possible with the generous support of the NSW Government through its Blockbusters Funding initiative.
Karatsu ceramicist Yukiko Tsuchiya (@tsuchiyayukiko) and curator Kathryn Hunyor (@artspeople_au) delivered two very special workshops in the teaching studios of the Ceramics Department at the National Art School (NAS), in an exciting collaboration between The Japan Foundation (@jpfsydney), Sydney, the NAS Ceramics Department and the National Art School.

Peek inside the wheel-throwing and hand-coiling masterclasses that took place.
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