The Drawing Exchange: Opening Night

Susan Rothwell, Chair, National Art School Board of Directors

Steven Alderton, Director and CEO, National Art School

warmly invite you and your guest to the Opening Night of 

The Drawing Exchange

Opened by

Thursday 18 August, 6 – 9pm

The Drawing Gallery, National Art School 

The Drawing Exchange (TDE) fosters artistic exchange between artists and art institutions, through an artist-led program focusing on innovative drawing practices. TDE 2022 is the third iteration of an ongoing collaboration between Adelaide Central School of Art and NAS. In 2022, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (NSW) joins the program, expanding the national reach of the Drawing Exchange. The TDE 2022 theme is Site. The nine selected artists respond to the site of their home institution and potentially the site(s) of the other participating institutions (through dialogue, images, site/​floor plans etc) or extend these ideas beyond the locality and history of the institution to engage with broader concepts of site. 

TDE 2022 brings together a diverse group of visual artists at different career stages, supporting them to make new work in a collaborative context within each venue, and sharing these developments across the three Drawing Exchange locations. This is achieved through a residency style program in which artists work on site at their home institution making new work in an intensive and communal way for a period of 1 – 2 weeks. The process of exchange is developed during these periods of working together on site, discussions between the artists at the partner venues, and engagement with students and the broader public, culminating in an exhibition at each venue. 

The Drawing Exchange 2022 artists at the National Art School include Dennis Golding, Nadia Odlum, Aude Parichot and Margaret Seymour.

Please advise us at marketing@​nas.​edu.​au if you have special needs regarding access.