Sydney Contemporary

Join us at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair as National Art School presents 14 NAS artists at Stand G02.

EXHIBITION ONE | 12 – 14 September
Connie Anthes
Gemma Avery
Belle Blau
Rebecca Gallo
Sarah Goffman
Drew Connor Holland
Kirtika Kain
Make or Break (Rebecca Gallo, Connie Anthes)

EXHIBITION TWO | 15 – 16 September
Mechelle Bounpraseuth
Eliza Gosse
Ryan Hancock
Jacqueline Hennessy
Jon Setter
Murat Urlali
Alex Xerri

PROGRAM

Thursday 13 September
12 – 5 Fair open
1     Director and CEO Steven Alderton’s tour of Sydney Contemporary
5 – 6 Make or Break Valuation 2 performance
6 – 7   Meet Drew Holland and Gemma Avery
5 – 9   Opening night

Friday 14 September
12 – 8 Fair open

Saturday 15 September
11 – 6 Fair open
1 – 2 Meet Eliza Gosse and Jon Setter

Sunday 16 September
11 – 6 Fair open
1 – 2 Meet Alex Xerri and Jaqueline Henessy

NAS ARTISTS ACROSS THE FAIR

National Art School alumni, Fellows and teaching staff are well represented across Sydney Contemporary including artists showing with the following galleries:

Giles Alexander Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary
Sydney Ball (staff) Sullivan+Strumpf
Anthony Bartok Unlimited
Michael Callaghan 583 Elizabeth St Projects
Catherine Cloran Arthere
John Coburn (Fellow) Justin Miller Art
Kevin Connor (Fellow) Whaling Road Studio
Paul Connor Art Atrium
Tim Corne O House Studios
Max Dupain Duncan Miller Gallery
Angus Fisher Australian Galleries Works on Paper
Simone Fraser (staff) Sabbia Gallery
Todd Fuller MAYSPACE
Marea Gazzard Utopia Art
Christopher Hanrahan Sarah Cottier Gallery
Steven Harvey (staff) Whaling Road Studio
Angela Hayson Unlimited
Anthony Hodgkinson Stacks Projects
Roslyn Kean Agave Print Studio
Therese Kenyon Ultimo Project Upspace and 583 Elizabeth St Projects
Graham Kuo Art Atrium
Dan Kyle Edwina Corlette Gallery
Pia Larsen (staff) Unlimited
Alesandro Ljubicic Michael Reid
Fiona Lowry Martin Browne Contemporary
Guy Maestri Whaling Road Studio
India Mark The Egg & Dart
Marie McMahon 583 Elizabeth St Projects
Jo Meisner O House Studios
Ceara Metlikovec Fox Jensen
Danny Morse Chalk Horse Gallery
Nadia Odlum Stacks Projects
Janet Parker Smith (staff) Unlimited Sydney
Sue Pedley (staff) Ultimo Project Upspace
Eloise Rankin Utopia Art
Jordan Richardson Michael Reid
Joan Ross Michael Reid
Luke Sciberras Whaling Road Studio
David Serisier (staff) Whaling Road Studio
Alexandra Standen Chalk Horse Gallery
Tim Storrier (Fellow) Australian Galleries
Louise Tuckwell Gallery 9
Oliver Wagner Sarah Cottier Gallery
Emma Walker Arthouse Gallery
Patricia Wilson Adams Hunter Prints & Paper
Zoe Young Edwina Corlette Gallery

Introducing the National Art School Short Courses Program from July–December 2025

Whether you’re a beginner, rediscovering a past passion, refining your skills, or considering our Fine Arts degree, the short courses offer a stimulating and rewarding experience for all levels.

Our 2025 program begins in July with Winter School, followed by Term Three, Spring Weekend Workshops in September, and Term Four in October.

Learn more and enrol at the link in bio.

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Apr 10

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Introducing the National Art School Short Courses Program from July–December 2025

Whether you’re a beginner, rediscovering a past passion, refining your skills, or considering our Fine Arts degree, the short courses offer a stimulating and rewarding experience for all levels.

Our 2025 program begins in July with Winter School, followed by Term Three, Spring Weekend Workshops in September, and Term Four in October.

Learn more and enrol at the link in bio.

Making Sound is a performance event featuring four artists who make devices that make sound, including Gary Warner, Pia van Gelder, Ben Denham and Sean O’Connell, presented following Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025, Saturday 12 April 5-6pm.

Gary Warner creates an improvised soundfield with his ‘aleatoric ensemble’ autonomous sound machines, a collection of modified turntables that spin ad-hoc bric-a-brac assemblages.

Pia van Gelder (pictured) amplifies an electronic circuit as it is built in real-time. Under the moniker of “PvG sans PCB,” in these performances, van Gelder works on a breadboard with electronic components and additional found objects to demonstrate the electronic variabilities produced in the material world.

Ben Denham and Sean O’Connell perform together with handmade synthesizer systems that sense and sonify barometric pressure and the flow of electrons through matter.

Purchase your tickets to the symposium at the link in bio.
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Pia van Gelder, `sans PCB`, 2021, performance, Collings Creative, image courtesy and © the artist

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Apr 6

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Making Sound is a performance event featuring four artists who make devices that make sound, including Gary Warner, Pia van Gelder, Ben Denham and Sean O’Connell, presented following Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025, Saturday 12 April 5-6pm.

Gary Warner creates an improvised soundfield with his ‘aleatoric ensemble’ autonomous sound machines, a collection of modified turntables that spin ad-hoc bric-a-brac assemblages.

Pia van Gelder (pictured) amplifies an electronic circuit as it is built in real-time. Under the moniker of “PvG sans PCB,” in these performances, van Gelder works on a breadboard with electronic components and additional found objects to demonstrate the electronic variabilities produced in the material world.

Ben Denham and Sean O’Connell perform together with handmade synthesizer systems that sense and sonify barometric pressure and the flow of electrons through matter.

Purchase your tickets to the symposium at the link in bio.
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Pia van Gelder, 'sans PCB', 2021, performance, Collings Creative, image courtesy and © the artist

Passionate about collections and the arts? Join us as a Digitisation Volunteer!

The National Art School Archive and Collection team is looking for enthusiastic Digitisation Volunteers to help bring our art collection to life! Your work will play a key role in making art and history more accessible—by photographing and recording our collections, enhancing our museum database, and digitising our extensive archive of photographs. Through your efforts, every stored object and artwork in our collection will have a high-quality, searchable digital record for generations to come.

Apply at the link in bio.

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Apr 2

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Passionate about collections and the arts? Join us as a Digitisation Volunteer!

The National Art School Archive and Collection team is looking for enthusiastic Digitisation Volunteers to help bring our art collection to life! Your work will play a key role in making art and history more accessible—by photographing and recording our collections, enhancing our museum database, and digitising our extensive archive of photographs. Through your efforts, every stored object and artwork in our collection will have a high-quality, searchable digital record for generations to come.

Apply at the link in bio.

Opening night: Gesture and Trace

Join us on Saturday 12 April for the opening night of Gesture and Trace, a collaborative exhibition with the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA), Shenyang, China. Featuring 16 students and recent alumni from the National Art School (NAS) and LAFA’s Textiles and Chinese Ink Departments, this exhibition explores cross-cultural perspectives on drawing and material practices.

This exhibition is presented by the National Centre for Drawing, in conjunction with Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025.

Purchase your tickets to the symposium at the link in bio.

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Apr 1

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Bring a friend to Winter School and save!

We’re offering a 15% discount on the purchase of a second Winter School course—as part of our exclusive ‘bring a friend’ special.

How it works:

1. Sign up for any Winter School course
2. Invite a friend to join you on the learning journey
3. Get 15% off when you purchase a second course for yourself or your friend

Learn more at the link in bio.

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Mar 31

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Introducing Sean O`Connell and Pia van Gelder, speakers at Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025
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Moderated by Ben Denham, Sean will explore traditional and extended practices that map connections and energetic exchange within abstracted landscapes, while Pia will discuss drawing of electronic circuits and their curious divinatory elements in 20th century radionics and their own work with electrodermal activity and audio synthesis.
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Sean O`Connell is an artist exploring the internal world of matter and the movement of electrical energy and force. He uses alternative photographic techniques, electronic circuitry, noise, energetic structures and experimental processes to visualise and sonify these spaces of interest. His work is concerned with the realms of both matter and electricity, exploring the ways they each transform, modulate, and inform one another`s nature through their interaction.
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Pia van Gelder is an electronic artist, researcher and historian at the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University. Their research investigates historical and contemporary conceptions of energy and how these shape our relationships with technologies, bodies and environments. Their scholarship has concentrated on the influence of esotericism on electronic instruments of the 20th century and their studio practice produces instruments for performance and installation contexts. Their current project *The Energies Artists Say* with co-editor Douglas Kahn, presents a methodology for understanding the polyvalence of energies in practices across the arts.
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Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025
Saturday 12 April 2025
Facture – The manner in which something is made
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Learn more about the speakers and symposium at the link in bio.

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Mar 28

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