The Drawing Exchange 2022

NAS Gallery presents The Drawing Exchange. 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 residency phase and exhibitions at the three locations overlap consecutively, beginning with NAS (drawing gallery), followed by MRAG (stairwell spaces) and ACSA (gallery). The three venues will be open to visitors during the residency phase of the project as well as the exhibition period. Artist talks will focus on the theme of ​‘site’ and how drawing can be driven by process and exchange without predetermined outcomes, contributing to a deeper understanding of the value of artistic process by giving audiences an ​‘inside view’.

NAS Artists

Dennis Golding
Dennis Golding is a Kamilaroi/​Gamilaraay artist from the northwest of NSW and was born and raised in Sydney. Working in a range or mixed media including painting, video, photography and installation, Golding critiques the social, political and cultural representations of race and identity. His practice is drawn from his own experiences living in urban environments and through childhood memories. Through collaborative, curatorial, and independent project, Golding aims to present powerful representations of contemporary Aboriginal cultural identity that inform narratives of history and lived experiences.

Nadia Odlum
Nadia Odlum is a multidisciplinary artist who is driven by a fascination with urban environments. Often working site-specifically, they draw on the aesthetics and materials of the built environment to create playful and immersive sculptures, installations and performance collaborations. Odlum’s work has been shown in galleries and public spaces around the world, including the Art Gallery of NSW, MANA Contemporary (New Jersey, USA) and the New York Transit Museum (New York, USA), as well as public art commissions for Urban Art Projects and Kaldor Public Art Projects.

Aude Parichot
Aude Parichot is a French born, Sydney-based artist. Her work continuously engages with, and explores, the flow between art and everyday life. Through process-driven artistic projects, Parichot questions and responds to places, events and situations, critically mapping how these elements converse in a transformational, poetic and playful manner. By engaging with processes and evolving systems, Parichot explores our relationship to place, change, time and language connecting drawing, installation, video, performance, digital media, participative art and documentation.

Margaret Seymour
Margaret Seymour is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Sydney. Inspired by new methods and materials for art making, she creates images, objects and sculptural installations where physical and electronic processes are fundamentally entwined. In recent works, colour data she records on site has been transformed into abstract shapes in order to highlight changes over time.

In these works she tries to counter the way a single photographic image often ends up replacing instead of evoking the embodied memory of a place. For her, seeing through data suggests one way out of the dilemma. Her works have been shown in exhibitions with a variety of different themes ranging from considerations of place and image to surveys of digital arts practice.