NAS NEO

THE FUTURE OF NOW ON GADIGAL LAND

THURSDAY 5 MAY

6 – 10PM

The National Art School is excited to announce NAS NEO, a new after-hours program that will bring together critical and progressive arts practice across inclusive and diverse platforms.

NAS NEO is a series of weekly multidisciplinary, artist-driven cultural events in collaboration with the next generation of change-makers, innovators and creators.

Every Thursday night.

NAS NEO presents: 

THE BIG DRAW

COLLABORATIVE DRAWING

CENTRAL COURTYARD

5 – 9pm

With the shadow play of the evening as stimulus, take up a pen and contribute to a collaborative drawing with artist facilitators Melinda Hunt and Aaron McGarry. Greek myth has it that representation began with the tracing of a sleeping lover’s shadow on a candlelit wall, and our projected light will cast a panoply of still and moving forms into a night-long drawing. 

PANEL DICUSSION

CELL BLOCK THEATRE

6.15 – 7.15pm

Drawing is direct action; a form of release. It enables us to transmit ideas and feelings, to escape the dictates of written language and dive into a process of visual discovery. Our panel of artists, Luke Thurgate, Skye Wagner, Aude Parichot, will reflect on their experiences of the many processes by which drawings evolve — the rapid and the gradual, the rough and the refined — and will share their delight in the act of drawing. 

DJ DIOLA

7.15 – 8.15pm

Plutonic Lab feat. Natalie Slade and DJ DIOLA

8.15 – 10.00pm

Plutonic Lab is an award winning Australian music producer, engineer, artist & performer. Sometimes known as Pluto, he is also one half of soul/​pop duo ​“SoundsLike FRANCO” with vocalist Natalie Slade, one third of Canadian/​Australian rap group ​“SHWING” with BBRC members Roshin & Bronze as well as the international tour drummer for multi platinum selling/​award winning group Hilltop Hoods.

23^rd Biennale of Sydney: RĪVUS

Open after hours from 6 – 10pm

NAS Gallery

The Drawing Gallery

Chapel

Free, drop-in art workshops

6.30 – 8.30pm

Handmade Books and Zines with NAS Artist Educator Janet Parker-Smith*

Building 16.1 Printmaking studio

Assembling Cardboard Cities with NAS Artist Educator Monika Scarrabelotti*

Building 25 Drawing Studio (small)

Drawing into Animation with NAS Artist Educator Damian Gascoigne*

Building 25 Drawing Studio (small)

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