Art Forum: NAS Residencies – La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

A residency at the NAS Onslow Storrier Studio at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris offers a recent NAS Graduate or Academic Staff Member the opportunity for dedicated focus on their practice during a three-month studio residency in the heart of Paris. There are four three-month residency periods on offer each calendar year. In partnership with over 130 French and international organisations, the Cité’s two complementary sites welcome more than 300 artists each month from a wide range of disciplines. In 2025, Tango Conway and Armando Chant were two of the recipients.

Tango Conway’s practice centres on contemporary drawing and explores the tensions between realism and representation. Through expanded drawing methodologies, she examines the act of perception and the slippages that occur when translating space into image. Conway graduated from the National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 2016, receiving the Academic Achievement Award for the highest mark in her cohort, and a Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts (Drawing) in 2019 and has since been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and prizes.  Her residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts enabled her to develop a new body of work.

Armando Chant is an interdisciplinary artist based on Gadigal Land, Sydney, Australia. His practice explores mediated images of landscape that oscillate between image and object, photography and materiality, memory and presence. Chant has exhibited widely across Australia in solo and group exhibitions, and has been a finalist in numerous major art prizes, including the Wynne Prize in both 2024 and 2025. Recent exhibitions and awards include the Dobell Drawing Prize, Redlands Art Prize, Jacaranda Drawing Award, and the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award Triennial. His work is held in regional gallery collections in Australia.