Calendar of Events

Refracted Lives

Refracted Lives is the inaugural exhibition of the finalists of the InsideOut Art Prize – India’s first national competition for LGBTQ artists. Just as light is refracted, so the lives of LGBTQ people bend to the rules of society and the expectations of family and friends. Often, we respond to the forces of religion, family, and the law by bending or subjugating our own needs, desires, and goals. We may appear to be what we are not, or even become what we do not want to be.

Opening Hours:

Saturday 16 February: 11am-5pm
Thursday 21 February: 11am-5pm
Friday 22 February: 11am-5pm
Saturday 23 February: 11am-5pm
Thursday 28 February: 11am-5pm
Friday 1 March: 11am-5pm
Saturday 2 March: 11am-5pm

Image: Dimple Chaudhary, (Love), photograph, 58 x 83 cm

Queer as Folk Lore: art works from the collections of Dick Quan and Holdsworth House Medical Practice

Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Abdul Abdullah, Tony Albert, AES&F, Del Kathryn Barton, Nick Cave, Jake and Dinos Chapman X Louis Vuitton, Juan Davila, Christine Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, David Griggs, Uji ‘Hahan’ Handok, Deborah Kelly, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama X Louis Vuitton, Fiona Lowry, Tracey Moffatt, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Eko Nugroho, João Penalva, Sterling Ruby X Raf Simons, Phil Solomon, Dr. Christian Thompson AO, and Kehinde Wiley

Opening Hours:

Saturday 16 February: 11am-5pm
Thursday 21 February: 11am-5pm
Friday 22 February: 11am-5pm
Saturday 23 February: 11am-5pm
Thursday 28 February: 11am-5pm
Friday 1 March: 11am-5pm
Saturday 2 March: 11am-5pm

Image: Nick Cave, Soundsuit #5 2010, archival pigments on rag paper, edition of 40, 101.6 x 76.2 cm. © Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Handmade Drawing Tools (for young people and families)

As part of the 2019 Sydney Design Festival, learn how to make your own drawing implements from found natural materials. Loosen up with gestural drawing exercises to rediscover drawing in a creative and supportive studio environment. Gather natural materials from the NAS campus to create your own brushes and draw from an array of found objects in the Drawing department’s collection. Work collaboratively and in ink to create a series of interesting large scale drawings that can be reworked into smaller objects and books to take home.

BOOK HERE NOW: https://nas.edu.au/product/handmade-drawing-tools-for-young-people-and-families-morning-session/

Constructed Collages (High School Students)

As part of the 2019 Sydney Design Festival, learn how to re purpose images from discarded magazines and books to create new artworks and narratives. This collage workshop seeks to build your understanding of how and why images and artworks are made. By exploring shape, colour, repetition, text and line in artworks, learn how to construct, deconstruct and analyse the elements that make images interesting, unique and effective. This program is designed for students who are interested in learning how to think creatively about composition in artworks to produce a small series of images or books in the process.

BOOK HERE NOW: https://nas.edu.au/product/constructed-collages-high-school-students/

Handmade Drawing Tools (for young people and families)

As part of the 2019 Sydney Design Festival, learn how to make your own drawing implements from found natural materials. Loosen up with gestural drawing exercises to rediscover drawing in a creative and supportive studio environment. Gather natural materials from the NAS campus to create your own brushes and draw from an array of found objects in the Drawing department’s collection. Work collaboratively and in ink to create a series of interesting large scale drawings that can be reworked into smaller objects and books to take home.

BOOK HERE NOW: https://nas.edu.au/product/handmade-drawing-tools-for-young-people-and-families-afternoon-session/

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative

Dr George Gittoes AM
Crossing the Lines
Wednesday 13 March, 1–2pm, Cell Block Theatre 

Dr George Gittoes AM is a major Australian artist, photographer and filmmaker. For nearly four decades he has documented some of the world’s most notorious conflicts. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the brutal massacres of Rwanda, Gittoes has documented the best and worst of the human condition. In Crossing the Lines, he speaks of his experiences of art and war.

Gittoes’ work typically reflects his social, political and humanitarian observations of man’s treatment of his fellow man. He has been described variously as a pop artist, a figurative artist, a modernist and a post-modernist. Ultimately he is a documenter. Through drawing, painting, film making and the written and spoken word, he reflects and tells the stories of what he has seen and experienced. Acclaimed as one of Australia’s most important artists, his works have been collected by MoMA NY and MFA Houston, Texas;  National Gallery of Australia; Queensland Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) as well as numerous regional galleries.

Gittoes was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2015 in recognition of his life’s work in contributing to the peace making process.  He was awarded the Bassel Shehade Award for Social Justice at Syracuse University, NY in 2013, and won the Blake Prize for religious art for one of his most important paintings The Preacher.  He is represented by Nanda / Hobbs in Sydney and Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane.

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative

NAS LIFE DRAWING CLUB

Are you a friend, supporter or graduate of the National Art School? Would you like to return to life drawing on the NAS campus? Join a friendly community of people who love drawing from life models, in the new bi-weekly Life Drawing Club. No experience necessary or long-term commitments, pay as you go and draw at your own pace. There is no formal tuition provided.

The NAS Life Drawing Club resumes on Monday 4 March and runs until  Thursday 18 April, and runs every Monday and Thursday evening throughout the undergraduate semester timetable.

• Cost is $20 per session. Book online below and bring your receipt to each session
• Monday and Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:30pm (following the NAS undergraduate semester timetable)
• Drawing studio is located on the first floor of building 16
• A variety of different models are provided throughout the semester
• Managed by NAS Public Programs and supervised by a NAS representative