Please see below for current and forthcoming exhibitions and events featuring our staff and alumni.

Oliver Abbott: Processing
This exhibition explores how personal and collective histories are constructed by revisiting relics of architecture and infrastructure unique to the Tweed. In Processing, Abbott reveals parallels between the construction of a painting and the way memory distorts, rearranges, and rebuilds its own version of the past. Abbott’s research led to him tracing family history in the region across 3 generations. Embracing the uncertainty and inaccuracy of the visual historic record, Abbott treats these gaps as opportunities to generate new, fictional spaces.

This exhibition is an outcome of the Tweed Regional Gallery – National Art School Master of Fine Art (Painting) Residency Award. The Partnership between the Gallery and NAS showcases emerging artists in celebration of Margaret Olley’s legacy as a NAS alum and a supporter of emerging artists. Until 28 June 2026.

Anna Mould: Edge of the Earth
Edge of the Earth draws on pre-colonial European imaginings of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Unknown Southern Land, ​“waiting to be discovered” on the other side of the world. Until 26 July 2026. 

Kirtika Kain: Unkept
New works by alum Kirtika Kain offer an abstract exploration of India’s controversial caste system and untold stories about marginalised people at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Until 22 September 2026.

Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize
We also congratulate NAS alum Lucy Culliton on winning the 2026 Sulman prize with Toolah, artist model - alongside the 9 finalists in this year’s Archibald and 20 finalists across the Wynne and Sulman Prizes across the NAS community:

• Archibald Prize: Mitch Cairns, Amelia Carroll, Nick Collerson, Guido (Guy) Maestri, Trésor Murace, Camille Olsen-Ormandy, Morgan Stokes, Natasha Walsh, Zoe Young
• Wynne Prize: Karen Black, Mark Maurangi Carrol, Casey Chen, Elisabeth Cummings, Fiona Currey-Billyard, Harrie Fasher, Eliza Gosse, Nicole Kelly, Catherine O’Donnell, Sassy Park, Phil James, Marisa Purcell, Natasha Walsh
• Sulman Prize: Suzanne Archer, Karen Black, Sarah Contos, James Drinkwater, Nathan Hawkes, Joan Ross, Gemma Smith

Shalom Collective: Holding Light
Holding Light is a major exhibition at Bondi Pavilion Art Gallery featuring work by staff member Dr Ella Dreyfus, bringing together professional artists and community members in creative response to the terror attack at Bondi Beach during a Chanukah celebration. Until 28 June 2026.

Between Stations: Joe Frost

The exhibition is currently on at Macquarie University Art Gallery until Thursday 11 June.  Macquarie University lies on the fringe of a region of north-western Sydney that Joe Frost has drawn and painted since the 1990s. Until 11 June 2026.

New Old School

Curated by Chelsea Lehmann and Luke Thurgate, New Old School brings together seven contemporary painters who treat art history as a living companion rather than a distant legacy.  Until 28 June 2026.

Image: Oliver Abbott, Second meeting burn, 2025, oil on linen, 120 × 180 cm
Image courtesy of the artist © The artist

If you are NAS alumni or staff, and would like your current or upcoming exhibition listed on this page, please email alumni@​nas.​edu.​au