Calendar of Events

NAS Queer Contemporary: SKIN DEEP

Friday 19 February – Sunday 7 March

10am–5pm

Free

SKIN DEEP is an interactive exhibition that presents intimate and personal stories of LGBTQI+ people through their tattooed bodies and stories, celebrating diversity, defiance and body art. SKIN DEEP is curated by the National Art School Executive Producer Terese Casu, and is made up of several unique components – presented as one integrated audience experience or as separate experiences. LGBTQI+ community participation is central to all components of SKIN DEEP – as narrators, models, storytellers and performers.

Exhibition

Celebrated Sydney fashion photographer, Waded, brings her skills of cutting edge fashion portraiture, to capture authentic but highly styled portraits of diverse tattooed bodies that tell unique stories through their body art.

Woven through the photographic exhibition will include historical images and the background of LGBTQI+ tattooed symbols used over last century to convey political messages or to reveal ones identity. The LGBTQI+ community are invited to contribute to the Exhibition through an interactive story wall of images and stories about their first tattoo.

Margaret Olley Drawing Week Exhibition

4–10 March

Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Rayner Hoff Project Space
FREE

In the last week of February, 350 students return from the summer break to commence the next stage of their studies at the National Art School. They are hungry for the stimulation and rigour of the BFA program, but before they divide off for their
timetabled classes they participate in Margaret Olley Drawing Week.

In this special week, just before Week One of the academic year, there are no AM and PM sessions and no shifts between subjects: just full immersion in drawing, a discipline that is at the core of all study at the School.

Part of the National Art School Festival of Drawing 2021.

Presence: Drawing Symposium 2021

Friday 26 March

9.30am–5pm
Cell Block Theatre / Online
$150 In Person (including lunch and refreshments) / $50 Online

Presented by the National Centre for Drawing

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In this time of forced introversion and on-line communication, The National Centre for Drawing’s 2021 Drawing symposium delves into the question of what Drawing is and does now, how it connects us to the present and makes us present in the world.
Eight very different artists from all over the world will talk to you and each other about the role of drawing in their practice and the drawings that inspire them.

Hosted in the National Art School’s historic Cell Block Theatre, you are invited to attend either online or in person. If you are not in Sydney there will be online options for you to join the conversation.

Speakers

Gerry Davies (UK), Maria Kontis (VIC), Anita Fricek (Austria), Margaret Roberts (NSW), Peter Bonner (USA), Aida Tomescu (NSW), James Nguyen (VIC), Lucienne Rickard (TAS)