REAL DMZ PROJECT
In conjunction with the exhibition Negotiating Borders, Sydney at the Korean Cultural Centre Australia (28 January – 29 March 2022), Artspace is hosting a screening program to take place on Thursday 24 March at the National Art School as part of their weekly after-hours program NAS NEO.Negotiating Borders, Sydney is a touring exhibition in partnership with the REAL DMZ PROJECT, a contemporary art project based on research conducted on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in South Korea and its border area. Through collaborations with artists, as well as other experts in different fields of study including history, sociology, architecture and ecology, the REAL DMZ PROJECT has been conducting research and producing artworks, exhibitions, publications and more that examine not only geographical borders but also invisible borders such as ideological and psychological divides that operate in life and society.The screening program will feature major video works by Korean and international artists responding to the DMZ, capturing the sensibilities that arise from being positioned in-between.
Screening ProgramPart of NAS NEO
National Art School, Cell Block TheatreThursday 24 March, 5.30–8pm (bar open at 5pm)
Artists
박찬경 Park Chan-Kyong임흥순 Im Heungsoon전소정 Sojung Jun아드리안 비샤르 로하스 Adrián Villar Rojas장영혜중공업 YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Art Forum
National Art SchoolCell Block TheatreWednesday 23 March12.45–1.45pmFree event, all welcomeParticipating artist, Adrián Villar Rojas will present a Lunchtime Lecture via live stream on Wednesday 23 March.
Adrián Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Argentina. Lives and works nomadically.)Solo exhibitions include La fin de l’imagination, Marian Goodman Galerie, Paris (2020); Poems for Earthlings, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2019); Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who is dreaming who?, Tank Shanghai, China (2019); The Theater of Disappearance, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2017); NEON Foundation at Athens National Observatory, Greece (2017); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2017), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2017); Rinascimento, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2015); Fantasma, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2015); Today We Reboot the Planet, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2013); and La inocencia de los animales, MoMA PS1, New York (2013).
Participation in international group exhibitions includes Portals, Hellenic Parliament + NEON, Athens, (2021); Carte-Blanche à Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); 12th and 13th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2020 and 2018); 2nd Lahore Biennial, Pakistan (2020); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020); Layers of Time,Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); 14th and 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2015 and 2012); 12 La Habana Biennial, Cuba (2015); 12th Sharjah Biennial, Kalba, United Arab Emirates (2015); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel and Kabul (2012); The New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); and 54th Venice Biennial, Argentina’s National Pavilion, Italy (2011).
Villar Rojas has been the recipient of numerous prizes such as The Sharjah Biennial Prize (2015), The Zurich Art Prize at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv (2013); the 9th Benesse Prize in the 54th Venice Biennale, (2011); the Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe Scholarship for Young Artists (2006); and the First Prize National Art Biennial of Bah a Blanca, Argentina (2005). In 2020 he was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize.
His 2013 film, Lo que el fuego me trajo (What the fire brought me), screened at the Locarno International Film Festival 2013. And his 2017 film trilogy The Theater of Disappearance, screened at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival 2017.
This program is organised in partnership with the REAL DMZ PROJECT; Korean Cultural Centre Australia; Artspace; and National Art School.
In June, we celebrate World Pride Month. Like many other culturally significant times, it’s a month that’s meaningful to our community and the Oxford precinct we are part of.
In 2015, NAS alum Todd Fuller (@fuller_todd) sent members of the public black and white drawings depicting two men engaged in a passionate kiss. The participants were encouraged to respond to the image by colouring in the figures, with the resulting images compiled by Fuller into a mixed media video animation.
Fuller gifted this work to the National Art School Collection, a collection that performs a major role within the National Art School as both a teaching resource and a historical record. Visit our website to find out more about the works in our collection.
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Todd Fuller, ‘The Unite Project - 3rd generation ‘, 2015, mixed media animation, colour and sound, 13.35 mins loop; image courtesy the artist and National Art School © Todd Fuller. From the National Art School Collection - Gift of Todd Fuller.
Jun 1
Last Thursday, we celebrated Maryanne Coutts, Lynda Draper and Amanda Woollard (in absentia) as this year`s recipients of the Award for Distinguished Service.
We share a heartfelt thank you to Maryanne, Lynda, and Amanda for their contribution to our School and students.
May 30
We`re excited to share that NAS Photomedia sessional Dr Jack Ball (@jack__ball_) is the winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2025, the nation’s most generous prize for Australian artists under forty.
Jack`s award winning work `Heavy Grit` is on display in the Ramsay Art Prize 2025 exhibition which opens tomorrow, Saturday 31 May
Jack Ball with `Heavy Grit` in Ramsay Art Prize 2025, Art Gallery of South Australia, (@agsa.adelaide) Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed
May 30
Thank you to outgoing Chair Susan Rothwell AM & welcome to incoming Chair Jeff Weeden. The National Art School would like to express its deepest gratitude to Susan Rothwell AM, whose term as Chair of the NAS Board concludes on 31 May 2025.
At the same time, we are pleased to announce and warmly welcome Jeff Weeden as the incoming Chair of the NAS Board, effective 1 June 2025.
Jeff has served as a Director on the NAS Board since 2019 and currently chairs the Finance and Audit Committee, a position he has held since 2023. For the full announcement, click the link in the bio.
May 29
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) starts today! As part of our NAS NRW program, we invite you to a special screening of the documentary `Kindred` (2023) in our Cell Block Theatre. The directors Gillian Moody and Adrian Russell Wills will be joining us for the screening.
`There`s the black world, and then there`s the white world. I felt walking in each of them was complicated enough. To bring those together would just make it even harder.` (Kindred: Trailer)
`Kindred` is a deeply personal feature-length documentary that delves into the emotional landscape of family, love, and loss through the eyes of two close friends.`
Limited capacity - click the link in bio to reserve your seats.
May 27
Congratulations to NAS alumni/staff Daniel McClellan, Jasmine Mowbray, Erin Murphy, Gemma Smith, Nicola Smith and Michael Snape, finalists of the Sulman Prize 2025.
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Daniel McClellan, ‘Jupiter’, 2025, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 169.9 x 110.4 cm; Jasmine Mowbray, ‘Under an ancient tortoiseshell sky’, 2025, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 150.2 x 120 cm; Gemma Smith, ‘Windward’, 2025, synthetic polymer paint, linen and canvas on linen, 230.2 x 199.5 cm; Nicola Smith, ‘The beginning of spring’, 2025, oil on linen, 85.4 x 80.2 cm; Michael Snape, ‘Painting with fluid subject’, 2025, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 91.7 x 92 cm; Image courtesy the artists and Art Gallery NSW (@artgalleryofnsw) and © the artists
May 26
