The Australian: John Olsen Zooms in to draw on experience
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The Australian: John Olsen Zooms in to draw on experience
Article by Jane Albert
Much like our current students, NAS alumnus John Olsen is utilising Zoom to continue teaching his painting classes.
“Why should we stop just because of the coronavirus?” he said. It didn’t take long for him to adapt to teaching over Zoom instead, and the classes resumed. “We’ve continued in that kind of way and that’s been rather nice – it’s a long time since I’ve taught.”
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Image: Artist John Olsen, with his daughter Louise, in his NSW southern highlands studio provides drawing classes to local artists on a monthly basis. Picture: Ken Redpath.
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