Graduation Ceremony 2025
The National Art School warmly invites you to take your place in the Graduation Ceremony on Thursday 22 May 2025 to receive your degree.
RSVP by Friday 9 May
Please note that you are welcome to invite two guests to join in celebrating this important achievement.
Midday Ceremony
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting)
Bachelor Fine Art (Ceramics)
- Registration & Academic dressing will start in Building 1 (Lighting Studio) from 10am
- Cell Block Theatre Doors open for Guests at 11.45am
- Ceremony commences at 12.00pm
Afternoon Ceremony
Bachelor of Fine Art (Photomedia)
Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking)
Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture)
Graduate Diploma of Fine Art
Master of Fine Art
- Registration & Academic dressing will start in Building 1 (Lighting Studio from 2.00pm
- Cell Block Theatre Doors open for Guests at 3.45pm
- Ceremony commences at 4.00pm
General information:
The Graduation Fee this year is $180. The fee includes:
- Hire of Academic Dress, including a Trencher for you to keep
- Reception for you and your guests with food and refreshments
- 2 guest tickets for the ceremony
RSVP by selecting one of the three options below:
- Attending
- Not attending please post testamur
- Not attending will collect testamur from NAS
Please note: Whilst we aim to post testamurs as soon as possible, please allow up to 3 weeks to receive your testamur via post
PLEASE RSVP WITH ONE OF THE FOLLLOWING OPTIONS BY FRIDAY 9 MAY
Now open in Building 25 Project Space — Liz Bradshaw `I didn`t expect to live this long`.
For this year`s Queer Contemporary, NAS alum Liz Bradshaw presents an exhibition of large-scale sculpture and installation works that offer a personal and political queering of time, space, materiality, and ideas. Integrating new works alongside a fragment of an artwork created at NAS in the 1990s, the installation folds together the artist`s personal experiences with the complex histories of the school`s site and the broader Darlinghurst area, which served as an epicentre of Australian queer history.
On view until 7 March. Monday to Saturday, 11am–5pm.
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Installation view: Zan Wimberley
Feb 13
Students: spaces are still available in Drawing Week 2026 workshops!
These free 4-day workshops run the week before classes commence and are exclusively for students entering their 2nd and 3rd year of the BFA at NAS.
Select from one of 12 distinct focus areas and start the year with a full immersion in the process of making, looking at and thinking about drawing.
Learn more 🔗 in bio.
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Photos: Peter Morgan
Feb 10
Featured in the @sydneymorningherald`s Spectrum — SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art.
Co-curator @fionalowry shares, “Graffiti doesn’t so much ‘lose value’ in the gallery as shift value. On the street, it holds power through risk, speed, territory and peer recognition. In the gallery, different things become visible: form, discipline, lineage and the deep relationship to authorship and mark-making. Part of what the exhibition tries to do is hold those two value systems in tension rather than pretend one replaces the other.”
SEARCHERS continues at the National Art School Gallery until April 11. Open Monday to Saturday, 11am–5pm.
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Installation views: Zan Wimberley
Feb 9
Work at the National Art School!
We`re recruiting a Head of Postgraduate Studies to lead and shape our postgraduate programs, including BFA (Hons), MFA and DFA.
Applications close Sunday 8 March 2026, 5pm.
Learn more 🔗 in bio.
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The Postgrad Show, 2025, photos: Peter Morgan
Feb 6
Opening 12 February — Queer Contemporary, as part of @sydneymardigras
This year`s edition presents `Liz Bradshaw: I didn`t expect to live this long` — an exhibition of large-scale sculpture and installation works that offer a personal and political queering of time, space, materiality, and idea — with student exhibitions organised by Jack Oliver Owen and nikita lelu.
Join us for the opening night on Thursday 12 February, from 6–9pm.
RSVP 🔗 in bio.
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Liz Bradshaw, `Two Pair`, 2023
Feb 1
The National Art School acknowledges that for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and for many other Australians, January 26 is a day of sorrow — marking deep loss, as well as survival.
Across Australia today, communities are coming together to reflect, connect and mark the day respectfully. The National Art School is committed to listening, learning and moving forward together.
For information about events visit antar.org.au and https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/australia-day-sydney
Jan 26
