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

Fergus Berney-Gibson: Waverley Art Prize

Congratulations to alum Fergus Berney-Gibson, the winner of the 40^th annual Waverley Art Prize. Berney-Gibson was presented with the $15,000 Open Prize by Waverley Mayor Will Nemesh for his silk screen and mixed media piece As if I would be proud of you.

Berney-Gibson was also highly commended in the Willoughby Emerging artist Prize for their work Podium.

Sculpture by the Sea

Congratulations to alumni Harrie Fasher, recipient of the Aqualand Sculpture Award for her work Unveiling the Edges of the Sky, and Elyssa Sykes-Smith, who has been awarded a Helen Lempriere Scholarship for her ongoing artistic research, at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2026. 

On view until 2 November 2026.

Chrystal Rimmer: Upwelling

Alum Chrystal Rimmer (BFA, 2015, MFA, 2019) presents Upwelling at Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney.

Upwelling takes its title from the oceanic process in which deep, nutrient-rich waters rise to the surface, bringing unseen matter into circulation and sustaining life. For Rimmer, this becomes a metaphor for bringing hidden ecological histories and vulnerable narratives to the surface, acknowledging what has been lost while making space for resilience, regeneration and renewal. Working in bronze, aluminium and ceramics, her works are informed by an acute awareness of the erasure of delicate flora and fauna through colonial industrialisation, yet they resist dwelling solely in ecological grief. Instead, Rimmer seeks to give form to stories that are vulnerable to disappearance, proposing an ethic of reciprocity, mutuality and care.

Through her intricate material transformations, Rimmer invites us to look beyond a human-centred understanding of nature and consider the complex interdependencies of all living systems. Upwelling is ultimately an exhibition about what rises to the surface: loss, memory, resilience and the possibility of regeneration.

Opening Celebration: Thursday, 22 October 2026, 6 – 8pm. RSVP
Artist Talk: Saturday, 31 October 2026, 3 – 4pm. RSVP

On view from 22 October to 14 November. 

Erin Murphy: Bananas in a Tree 

Alum Erin Murphy (MFA, 2025) presents Bananas in a Tree at OLSEN ANNEXE. Murphy’s practice involves sampling pictures from non-fictional literature — encyclopaedias, science books, catalogues, and rephrasing this imagery as the subject of painting. Erin refers to her body of work as ​“The Picture-Dictionary.”

On view 28 October to 21 November 2026.

Ebony Russell: Girly in Manly 

Alum Ebony Russell (BFA, 2025) is featured in Girly in Manly at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney.

Beginning with the colonial naming of Manly, Girly in Manly brings together works to explore femininity through ideas of inheritance, care, creativity and connection to place.  Working with porcelain and visual language of cake decorating, Russell transforms traditionally feminised forms into sculptural worlds.

“Each sculpture is built entirely through the slow accumulation of piped porcelain, where thousands of hand-formed marks transform decorative labour into architectural form. This process honours the matrilineal traditions of making that have shaped my practice — crafts passed between generations of women through acts of care, devotion and creativity. Rather than treating ornament as superficial embellishment, these works reclaim it as a powerful sculptural language capable of carrying memory, imagination and cultural meaning.” – Ebony Russell

On view 25 September to 29 November 2026. 

Tango Conway: It’s Curtains

Drawing lecturer (sessional) Tango Conway presents It’s Curtains! at Platform, Canberra Contemporary. 

It’s Curtains! is an exhibition that playfully explores the parallels between drawing and theatre. Drawing on the idiom ​“it’s curtains for you/​me!”, which signals both the final curtain of a play and the end of something, Conway uses this wordplay to contemplate inevitable finality.

Borrowing from theatrical props and tropes such as footlights, vaudeville hooks and curtains, Conway treats Platform Gallery as a stage from which to probe the precarious nature of being an artist. On one hand, there is the persistent demand that ​“the show must go on”. On the other, there is the looming dread of reaching an end point, of being finished or used up.

While this feeling may stem from any number of concerns that persistently hang over an artist’s head, Conway is less interested in identifying their causes than in exploring how they are felt. It’s Curtains! dwells in the anticipation of failure, holding the tension between the compulsion to keep making and the possibility that the curtain might fall.

On view from 13 November to 6 December 2026.

Joshua Charadia: Only a thin membrane between us 

Alum Joshua Charadia (BFA 2017) presents Only a thin membrane between us s at N.Smith Gallery.

Building on the significant shift in his practice first seen in his 2025 exhibition Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds, Joshua Charadia’s new series Only a thin membrane between us marks a further evolution in his exploration of abstraction. Moving further from the precise architectural representations that defined his earlier work, Joshua develops a visual language that considers the relationship between place and perception.

The exhibition continues Joshua’s investigation into the ways we experience and interpret our surroundings. His hallmark technical precision remains, yet architectural forms become increasingly fluid, dissolving into layered compositions where light, colour, and texture take on greater significance. Figures emerge within these spaces, their forms blurred by motion as they move through the compositions, introducing a sense of transience. The boundaries between representation and abstraction become less defined, marking a further evolution in his distinctive visual language.

Opening Night: 19 November, 6 – 8pm

On view from 19 November to 12 December 2026.

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  

Image: Elyssa Skyes-Smith, Seed, photo: Charlotte Curd