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Artist Profile: Issy Parker

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Artist Profile: Issy Parker

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Article by Elli Walsh

Having recently graduated from the National Art School, majoring in ceramics, Parker is searching for her own frames of beauty. As a young artist of Australian and African American heritage, she re-examines the ostensible ‘primitivity’ of the ceramic mode – one of humanity’s oldest artforms. Experimenting with textures and patterns on functional forms, Parker playfully prods Western ideals lodged deep within art, both historically and presently, and within one’s own perceptions of beauty.

‘My ideas of beauty are not conventional scopes of beauty. I’m inviting a new conversation – lumps and bumps are beautiful’, she explains. Each form celebrates irregularity and individuality, valorising the ‘imperfect’ as perfect.

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Image: Isabella Parker, Banksia
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We’re looking for a new Future Students Advisor. Application deadline Sunday 17 November. Apply now!

The Future Students Advisor’s role is to develop and implement student recruitment and engagement plans to meet application and enrolment targets of undergraduate and postgraduate students to the National Art School (NAS). This position will develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to understand student recruitment priorities and objectives and contribute to the annual intake of domestic, interstate, and international students.

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We’re looking for a new Future Students Advisor. Application deadline Sunday 17 November. Apply now! The Future Students Advisor’s role is to develop and implement student recruitment and engagement plans to meet application and enrolment targets of undergraduate and postgraduate students to the National Art School (NAS). This position will develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to understand student recruitment priorities and objectives and contribute to the annual intake of domestic, interstate, and international students. Visit the link in bio to learn more.

Join us this weekend for The Material Image, the 8th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, where we’ll explore the diverse materiality of images at the intersections of art, science, and culture. This event will examine how contemporary image-making practices are reshaping our understanding and interpretation of images, challenging traditional notions of ‘materiality.’

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Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd November, 9.15am - 5.30pm, NAS Cell Block Theatre

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Learn more and register at the link in bio. Special rates apply for NAS faculty and students.

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Join us this weekend for The Material Image, the 8th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, where we’ll explore the diverse materiality of images at the intersections of art, science, and culture. This event will examine how contemporary image-making practices are reshaping our understanding and interpretation of images, challenging traditional notions of ‘materiality.’ — Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd November, 9.15am - 5.30pm, NAS Cell Block Theatre — Learn more and register at the link in bio. Special rates apply for NAS faculty and students.

Best of luck to all the HSC students sitting their Visual Arts (Art Criticism and Art History) exam today!

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Best of luck to all the HSC students sitting their Visual Arts (Art Criticism and Art History) exam today!

Introducing the graduating Painting MFA students and their selected work.
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Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Postgrad Show Opening Night, Thursday 7 November, 6–10pm.

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Introducing the graduating Painting MFA students and their selected work. — Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Postgrad Show Opening Night, Thursday 7 November, 6–10pm.
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