NAS NEO - Kinetic Compositions

NAS NEO is art in motion.

This NAS NEO expands the possibilities of painting beyond the canvas, with our music headliner Harvey Sutherland bringing a four-piece band as well as his own unique visuals and Digital installations across campus from Aislinn Connolly, Ellen McCalmont, Andre de Vanny, and Erica Nottage. We’ve also got Grant Bellamy (Thirty-Six the Clown) as he wanders the grounds of NAS.

We’ll also have workshops, a digital Chess art piece from Samuel Alison, food trucks, and NAS’s own Luke Martin mixing tunes for the night.

Our current exhibition Radiance: The Art of Elisabeth Cummings will also be open late over the evening, featuring the work of one of Australia (and NAS’s) most renowned artists. 

Best of all, it’s FREE. As per usual we’ll also have food trucks, drinks, and good vibes across campus.

Harvey Sutherland

Cell Block Theatre

6.55pm — 7.55pm

Studio producer, Remix master, Funk synthesist.

After making a name amongst Melbourne’s electronic underground, musician and producer Mike Katz released his first cassette under nom de plume Harvey Sutherland. Blending a broad array of crate-digging influences, his bubbling and neurotic machine funk has made international waves since his early 12” singles. 

Releasing via his Clarity Recordings imprint, Sutherland’s distinctive electronic soul and leftfield disco cuts have been championed by Gilles Peterson, Jamie xx and Bradley Zero amongst many others. 

Alexis Petridis at the Guardian described the music as ​“full-tilt, lasers-hitting-glitterball mayhem”, and he has been featured by Resident Advisor, NPR and Boiler Room. Sutherland tours extensively alongside his acclaimed live band, recently finishing up a successful national tour of his newest album, ​‘BOY’

Radiance: The Art of Elisabeth Cummings

NAS Gallery

6.00pm — 9.30pm

The National Art School is proud to present Radiance: the art of Elisabeth Cummings, a spectacular exhibition celebrating one of the School’s most esteemed and exceptional alumni. The artist’s singular visual language and inimitable grasp of colour are celebrated in major works from the last three decades drawn from public and private collections.

Elisabeth Cummings is represented by King Street Gallery on William.

Deep Blue

Cell Block Courtyard

6.00pm — 9.30pm

“Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn’t, in general… While not all artists are chess players, all chess players are artists” — Marcel Duchamp

Inspired by Duchamp’s musings on the abstract strategy game of Chess, this project from Samuel Alison seeks to graphically capture aesthetic compositions inherent within the game using a computer program, the result of which lies the intersection between art and science. These skeletal generative artworks are then used as a basis for a seemingly infinite amount of inspiration for further abstraction, resulting in poetic remnants of the competitive mind-sport. 

Art Mural Workshop

Rayner Hoff Project Space

6.00pm — 9.30pm

Join us in the Hoff Space as we let you be your best creative selves in a large collaborative mural/​artwork piece against the walls.

Forced Parameters

Library Stairwell Gallery

6.00pm — 9.30pm

Forced Parameters explores printmedia works made and curated by NAS Printmaking students. 🌠✨️

Luke Martin (DJ)

6.00pm — 9.30pm

NAS’s own Luke Martin will be playing tunes on the decks across the evening. 

Thirty-six the Clown

Thirty-Six the Clown wanders the grounds of NAS, a bag in each hand. One bag of sugary sweets and in the other…not so sugary paintings (do not ingest). The choice is yours to decide which one rings true.