Art Phoenix Opening and Fundraiser

3 February

18 March

2023

PROGRAM

Art Phoenix Opening and Fundraiser

Friday 3 March 2023

Cell Block Theatre
Friday 3 March 2023
6pm – 8pm
Free admission

Art Phoenix Pop Up

3 – 5 March 2023

Cell Block Theatre
3 – 5 March 2023
11am – 5pm
Free admission

“I’m eleven years clean now, and I attribute these years of functional effort directly to BGF. Art heals. Art connects. Art can teach and art uplifts. BGF Art Phoenix rescued me, and today I’m surrounded by artworks that are testament to that creative fact.” 

      •   BGF Art Phoenix Participant

In partnership with NAS, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) presents Art Phoenix. The exhibition is the culmination of a series of drawing workshops led by acclaimed artist Luke Thurgate for members of the BGF community living with HIV.

Join us from 6-8pm on Friday 3 March to celebrate the opening of Art Phoenix, and for your chance to bid and win one of these incredible artworks! 100% of the proceeds of the artwork sales go directly to the artist who created it.

BGF is Australia’s oldest community-based HIV organisation, providing client services and health promotion programs in NSW and SA. Art Phoenix is part of BGF’s Health and Wellbeing program suite and is the longest running program. The workshops focus on helping people with HIV to not only think about their HIV in a different way, but to use art to improve their quality of life. Art Phoenix is the only contemporary art program in Australia that is fully committed to both raising the awareness of HIV through the production and presentation of visual arts projects, while assisting artists living with HIV.

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We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Prudence MacLeod Prize. 

The Prudence MacLeod Prize, which will continue for a further three years, supports a recent National Art School graduate to undertake a six-month residency at @acme.art, London.

Supported by the Lansdowne Foundation, the Prize provides an emerging artist with an opportunity to step forward into an expanded, international context at a vital time in their career. The artist will live and work in London, one of the world's great art cities, in a supportive artist community. This important opportunity will enable the artist to forge professional international contacts, explore London's art world and rich cultural resources, and produce a new body of work.

The recipient of this Prize will receive:
– Return travel to London. To be arranged for the artist by NAS.
– Studio accommodation and workspace at Acme Studios for 6 months.
– Living stipend of $AUD3,500 per month for 6 months. Total $AUD21,000.

Application deadline: Sunday 1 February 2026, 11.59pm
Residency: Monday 6 July – Friday 18 December 2026

The Prudence MacLeod Prize is open to eligible NAS alumni who have graduated within the past five years and meet the selection criteria.

Learn more 🔗 in bio. 

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Acme Fire Station, 30 Gillender Street, 1999 © Acme Archive
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the opening of The Grad Show!

Find works by this year's cohort exhibited throughout the NAS campus until 14 December. Open daily from 11am — 5pm and until 9pm on Fridays. 

View online via 🔗 in bio.

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