Carolyn Fletcher AM, Chair, National Art School Board of Directors, Steven Alderton, Director and CEO, National Art School and Albert Kruger, CEO, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras warmly invite you and your guest to attend the opening night of

NAS Queer Contemporary

The Mardi Gras hub for queer art and visual culture

Friday 14 February 2020

6 – 10pm

Enter by The Wall on Darlinghurst Road – opposite Green Park

Opening night program

Misfit exhibition launch

DJ Sveta

Performance by Brian Fuata

Misfit: Collage and queer practice

Rayner Hoff Project Space

Artists: Tony Albert, Archie Barry, Gary Carsley, Brian Fuata, Deborah Kelly, Del Lumanta, Sarah Rodigari, Tejal Shah, Tyza Stewart, Guanyu Xu, Paul Yore

Curator: Scott Elliot

Queer artists have long understood the power of collage as a tool for manipulating the singular narratives that so often exclude them. Misfit examines the idea of collage as a medium especially susceptible to embodying queer experience. Presenting works by Australian and international artists who engage with performance, video, text, photography, textile, painting, paper and sound, Misfit looks at how the radically reassembled can veer us closer to unseen truths, productive ambiguities and powerful positions of resistance.