NAS NEO – Drawing Time

Thursday 30 March, 6 – 10pm

Each month, we’re running a free after hours program hosting performances, exhibitions & workshops at NAS NEO. Bring your buddies along for a night of creativity, tunes and after-hours mischief. 

Kicking off tomorrow, join us from 6pm for our Collaborative Drawing Workshop with Tango Conway, then grab a bevvy and food before catching the best in contemporary drawing work at the Dobell Drawing Prize opening, followed by a performance celebrating artist Hannah Quinlivan’s Conjunctures exhibition; weaving together installation, light and sculpture. There’s also Drawing with Machines from 7pm to 9pm, where robot meets a custom-built harmonograph.

And as if that wasn’t enough, our music lineup has just dropped with Ghanaian-Australian sibling duo Kinder headlining the evening from 8:45pm to 9:30pm.

See the work of our drawing students at PRAXIS in the Library Stairwell Gallery or grab yourself a discounted art book from the NAS Library Book Sale!

Our Interactive Workshops are open to everyone, no experience needed. No bookings, no judgement, and they’re FREE for everyone to drop in. 

Come join us at the National Art School on Thursday 30 March, 6 – 10pm.

Kinder

We’re so excited to have Kinder with us for the evening, playing between 8:45pm to 9:30pm.

Growing up in Maitland, NSW, Savannah and Briony were immersed in music from a young age. This early musical education gave the sisters an introduction to rhythm and craft, rich beat work and electrifying charisma. While Savannah took an interest in playing piano, Briony was drawn to dancing, and the body-moving potential of powerful beats. As teenagers, Savannah and Briony slowly began to immerse themselves in club culture, finding their way to Sydney to DJ at the city’s hallowed clubs. Those hole-in-the-wall slots quickly became headline slots, which became festival and stadium slots, opening for the likes of Marshmello and RL Grime, and performing on national festival circuits, including the 2019 Listen Out national tour. The heart of all Briony and Savannah’s endeavours, even from their earliest shows, has always remained the same: Kinder want to bring people joy – to make them dance and smile and forget their troubles, even if only for a minute.

Dobell Drawing Prize #23 Winner Announcement 

NAS Gallery

The biennial Dobell Drawing Prize is Australia’s leading prize for drawing and an unparalleled celebration of drawing technique, innovation and expanded drawing practices. It is presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art. The 2023 exhibition presents new works by 64 finalists: 

Tamsin Ainslie, Margaret Ambridge, Maree Azzopardi, John Bokor, Godwin Bradbeer, Liz Bradshaw, Nicki Brancatisano, Catherine (Cath) Brophy, Armando Chant, Sally Clarke, Erin Coates, Fiona Currey-Billyard, Clare Delaney, Christophe Domergue, Linda Fardoe, Nic Fern, Sue Field, Angus Fisher, Ashley Frost, Joanna Gambotto, Chris Gentle, Jane Grealy, S.C. Grennan, Sylvia Griffin, Simon Harris, John Hart, Iluwanti Ken, Sandra Kiris, Kenneth Lambert, Alison Mackay, Danie Mellor, Liam Nunan, Daniel O’Toole, Toshiko Oiyama, Martin John Oldfield, Anastasia Parmson, Lori Pensini, Nic Plowman, Ross Potter, Lucy Ray, Anna Louise Richardson, Jeff Rigby, Jason Roberts, Julie Rrap, Lindy Sale, Robert Shepherd, Sally Simpson, Ben Soedradjit, Amber Subaki, Jayanto Tan, Remnim Alexander Tayco, Michael Terkildsen, Luke Thurgate, Jennifer Tighe, Floria Tosca, Claire Tozer, Alan Tracey, Teo Treloar, Yvette Tziallas, Bronwyn Van de Graaff, Nina Walton, Gary Warner, Anna Warren, Paul White

Hannah Quinlivan: Conjunctures 

The Drawing Gallery

The National Art School proudly presents Conjunctures, a major new exhibition by artist Hannah Quinlivan commissioned for The Drawing Gallery. The Canberra based artist works in expanded fields of drawing across installation, light, weaving, drawing, sculpture with time-based works. Quinlivan’s new spatial drawings provide an invitation to explore the intricate connections between place and the social structure of feeling. Working within the expanded field of drawing, this body of work seeks to draw out and amplify the affective atmospheres of our time.

Drawing with Machines

Chapel, ground floor

NAS Drawing lecturers and artists, Gary Warner and Dr. Ben Denham have teamed up with the Director of Monash University’s Sensilab, Professor Jon McCormack to present drawing machines and robots that will extend and challenge our ideas of what drawing can be and machines can do. Meet the artists who will talk about their art practices.

Gary Warner will show his custom-built harmonograph that translates the action of three pendulums into unique drawings of energy expenditure. Ben Denham will work with a custom-built, large-format robotic drawing machine controlled by cycling voltages that also shape sounds from synthesizer modules. Ben’s work on this project has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Jon McCormack will present three DB1 open-source drawbots running new code created for the event. These sophisticated, programmable drawing robots have been developed at Sensilab over the past five years. They are intended for use by artists and in STEAM education contexts.

PRAXIS

Library Stairwell Gallery, NAS Library

PRAXIS is a drawing exhibition featuring the work of MFA Drawing students Peter Cornett, Scott Elk, Stafford Gaffney, Jocelyn Hedley, Sabine Jamieson, Quan Ma, Rachael Mackay, Viola Nazario, Bibi Soleimani, Beatrice Weidner.

NAS Book Sale!

Raynor Hoff Project Space

National Art School Library will hold its annual and much anticipated book sale during NAS NEO Thursday 30 March 5 – 8pm in the Raynor Hoff Project Space, Building 11.

International and Australian art books and magazines priced to go!

Free, drop-in art workshops

Building 25

6.00 – 8.30pm

*The Art Workshops are open to everyone of all levels of experience. No bookings required.

NAS NEO

On Gadigal Land

6 – 10pm

National Art School

Entry via Forbes Street, Darlinghurst

This initiative is proudly supported by the NSW Government through the Culture Up Late Program.

#NASNEO #CultureUpLate #CUL2023.