Kaye Shumack: Drawing Sydney
Kaye Shumack: Drawing Sydney presents a selection of drawings created over the past five years that explore motifs and traces from the urban landscapes of Sydney’s public spaces and streetscapes, revealing the beauty of the city’s lesser known, ordinary locales as well as key landmarks.
These observations, combined with memory of place, elicit the sense of the artist creating a dialogue between time and place, melding the present and the past. As Sydney continues to be re-shaped by large building and infrastructure projects, urban spaces are increasingly contested.
Shumack’s works are inhabited by the energy or spirit of each location, providing clues to the city’s layered history and the ways in which it has been shaped and loved by its inhabitants. Together, this impressive body of work reminds us not to take our city, or its history, for granted. Kaye Shumack is a much-admired member of the NAS community who very sadly passed away recently.
Melinda Hunt, one of Kaye’s fellow Drawing students in the NAS Master of Fine Art program, paid tribute to her:
“We all admired not just Kaye’s remarkable drawings but also her considered, insightful and affirming contributions to conversations about our work and theoretical concerns. Kaye loved being at NAS, her relationships with fellow students and supervisors and her light-filled studio where she could focus on making work. We’re thankful for the opportunity to know Kaye and pleased that thanks to her generosity, she will be remembered through the Kaye Shumack Sunflower Drawing Prize, an annual award of $3000 for an MFA Drawing graduate whose work contributes to broadening awareness of social issues.”
EXHIBITION DATES: Saturday 6 – Saturday 27 November 2021
EXHIBITION LOCATION: The Drawing Gallery
OPENING HOURS: Monday–Saturday, 11am–5pm
CURATORS: Katrina Cashman and Joe Frost
We’re looking for a new Future Students Advisor. Application deadline Sunday 17 November. Apply now!
The Future Students Advisor’s role is to develop and implement student recruitment and engagement plans to meet application and enrolment targets of undergraduate and postgraduate students to the National Art School (NAS). This position will develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to understand student recruitment priorities and objectives and contribute to the annual intake of domestic, interstate, and international students.
Visit the link in bio to learn more.
Oct 28
Join us this weekend for The Material Image, the 8th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, where we’ll explore the diverse materiality of images at the intersections of art, science, and culture. This event will examine how contemporary image-making practices are reshaping our understanding and interpretation of images, challenging traditional notions of ‘materiality.’
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Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd November, 9.15am - 5.30pm, NAS Cell Block Theatre
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Learn more and register at the link in bio. Special rates apply for NAS faculty and students.
Oct 28
Introducing Alice Xu @alicexuart, one of our graduating Painting MFA students, and their selected work `What is happening to Sydney?`
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Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Postgrad Show Opening Night, Thursday 7 November, 6–10pm.
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Alice Xu, `What is happening to Sydney?`, 2024, oil on canvas, 101.5 x 76 x 3cm.
Portrait Photography: Jack Rockliffe @soybasedhacked
Artwork Photography: Jennifer Leahy @silversalt_photography
Oct 27
Introducing Brooke Marchel @brooke.marchel, one of our graduating Painting MFA students, and their selected work `The Way to Dusty Death`.
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Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Postgrad Show Opening Night, Thursday 7 November, 6–10pm.
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Brooke Marchel, `The Way to Dusty Death`, 2024, oil and acrylic on book, 20.5 x 25.5cm.
Portrait Photography: Jack Rockliffe @soybasedhacked
Artwork Photography: Jennifer Leahy @silversalt_photography
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