NAS Campus

In keeping with the school’s focus on hands-on studio-based learning, the campus has a comprehensive range of workshop and studio facilities that support learning across traditional and contemporary art making practices.

As undergraduate students progress through the Bachelor of Fine Art degree and commence independent projects within their nominated area of studio specialisation, each student is provided with an individual studio space where they can develop their work.

Similarly, students at Master of Fine Art level are provided with individual studio spaces within dedicated postgraduate studio areas.

Discover more about the facilities dedicated to each discipline by exploring the ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, photomedia and printmaking pages.

The workshop includes a full suite of timber and steel manufacturing equipment as well as a range of electric and pneumatic hand tools for students to use. Students from all disciplines have access to these facilities, which are designed to encourage experimentation and to broaden knowledge of the variety of tools and processes available to apply to their art practice.

The NAS Library is a specialist fine arts library, supporting the teaching at NAS. It has a large collection of art and design literature, journals, periodicals and electronic resources. In addition to resources the library’s literacy officer also runs the Research Essentials Workshops and one-to-one sessions designed to assist students in developing their theoretical writing and referencing skills.

NAS has four dynamic exhibition spaces including the recently launched NAS Drawing Gallery and the central NAS Gallery, which presents up to four major exhibitions each year as well as presenting annual graduate student exhibitions. Exhibitions are accompanied by scholarly publications and a dynamic range of public programs that provide a rich context for the interpretation and understanding of art.

The NAS Print Lab is a professional digital print facility available to students, staff and alumni. Established in September 2017, the Print Lab has fast become the print lab of choice for professional artists exhibiting in Sydney and regional galleries.

Our central digital imaging lab also provides students access to the full range of Adobe digital imaging software to assist in preparing their work for print and exhibition.

Owned and operated by the same family since 1918, Parkers has supplied quality art materials and framing services to generations of Sydney artists. Their on-campus shop is open to students and the public and stocks an extensive range of paints, drawing accessories, canvas, charcoal, brushes and other art tools.

NAS is in the heart of Sydney’s arts precinct in the vibrant inner-city suburb of Darlinghurst, surrounded by a thriving and diverse creative community.

The school is easy walking distance from the CBD or a short bus ride to Bondi Beach; students have access to some of Sydney’s best cafés, galleries, museums, theatres, live music venues and cinemas.

Under the palms and eucalypts, surrounded by the massive convict-cut sandstone walls is the secluded Cafe NAS. Located in what was once the debtors’ quarters of the former Darlinghurst Gaol, Cafe NAS is where artists and art students come together.

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