march, 2021
19feb(feb 19)10:00 am07mar(mar 7)5:00 pmNAS Queer Contemporary – SKIN DEEP

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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
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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.
Time
February 19 (Friday) 10:00 am - March 7 (Sunday) 5:00 pm
Location
Cell Block Theatre
Forbes St Darlinghurst NSW 2010
04mar(mar 4)9:00 am10(mar 10)5:00 pmMargaret Olley Drawing Week Exhibition

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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
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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.
Time
4 (Thursday) 9:00 am - 10 (Wednesday) 5:00 pm
Location
Rayner Hoff Project Space
22mar(mar 22)9:00 am09apr(apr 9)5:00 pmThreaded Charcoal: Current Postgraduate Drawing Exhibition

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Threaded Charcoal: Current Postgraduate Drawing Exhibition 22 March – 9 April Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Library Stairwell Gallery FREE 14 of our current MFA students will show the diversity of drawing. From stitching to ink washing, pinpricks
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Threaded Charcoal: Current Postgraduate Drawing Exhibition
22 March – 9 April
Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Library Stairwell Gallery
FREE
14 of our current MFA students will show the diversity of drawing. From stitching to ink washing, pinpricks in waxed paper to video, these students are alive to what drawing can be.
Part of the National Art School Festival of Drawing 2021.
Time
March 22 (Monday) 9:00 am - April 9 (Friday) 5:00 pm
Location
Library Stairwell Gallery
26mar9:30 am5:00 pmPresence: Drawing Symposium 2021

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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 Buy Tickets In this time of
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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)
Background
We hope that the unusual events of 2020 will enable us to link more closely with artists across the globe and in this context, which generates a strange disjunction between physical presence and on-line connection, the symposium will consider what drawing has to offer the simple idea of being present.
Drawing is powerfully and particularly about presence. The symposium will consider ways that drawing can conjure, evoke, embody and restore this quality of actualisation in both material and non-material, real and virtual modes of being. Emerging from an increasing need to occupy digital environments, the symposium encourages conversations about what this means in the context of drawing.
Presence refers to the state of existence, while also suggesting what is not visible, but rather sensed. The symposium invites discussion on the various ways drawing can elicit presence; from the graphic mark as record/trace to durational, performative and spatial manifestations.
Given the theme and the climate, the symposium will navigate physical and on-line participation.
National Centre for Drawing
The National Centre for Drawing at the National Art School promotes and nurtures practice, research and scholarship in drawing in all of its manifestations. Positioned at the core of an educational institution and cultural precinct, it enables a range of audiences to engage more deeply with drawing. Through the practice of drawing, curatorial projects, exhibitions, publications, conferences, lectures and other special events, it nurtures a curiosity around drawing that is grounded in precedent but extends towards the unknown.
Time
(Friday) 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Location
National Art School
Forbes Street