2025 Recipient
Anna Mould, NAS MFA 2023, BFA 2021
The Prudence MacLeod Prize
The Prudence MacLeod Prize
A six-month studio residency program in London for a National Art School graduate.
Application deadline Sunday July 21, 2024
Residency dates Monday 3 February – Friday 25 July 2025
Residency
With support from the Lansdowne Foundation, NAS is launching a pilot program that supports an emerging Australian artist to undertake a six month residency at Acme’s Fire Station studios in London. Acme will provide work/live studio accommodation and a program of support and professional development for a NAS alumni artist. Resident artists are expected to contribute to the program and the artist community, and to deliver a small-scale public outcome at the end of the residency, with the support of Acme and within the budget allocated.
This opportunity is designed to support an emerging artist at a vital time in their career, providing a step forward into an expanded, international context. 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 International Residencies Coordinator.
- Accommodation and studio at Acme Studios London for six months.
- Living stipend of $AUD3500 per month for six months. Total $AUD21,000 for six months.
Acme
London-based charity Acme has been supporting artists in need since 1972. Acme’s affordable studio provision helps artists sustain their practices, while their additional support looks to help artists make career-changing breakthroughs at pivotal moments in their careers.
Working with a range of international and UK-based partners and donors, Acme supports professional development for artists at all stages of their careers through artist residencies, awards and bursaries. Each residency artist is met by an Artist Support Officer and given an induction tour of their residence and surrounding area. A video call will be arranged in advance of the artist’s arrival so a support program can be tailored to the individual’s needs.
Eligibility
- NAS alumni: Graduate of either Bachelor of Fine Art, Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons), Master of Fine Art, or Doctor of Fine Art. Applicants must have graduated within the past 5 years.
- Applicant must be an Australian citizen or Australian resident and able to comply with any visa requirements.
- Applicant warrants that they are available to undertake the residency for six months from February to July 2025 and will be prepared to present a small scale public outcome at the end of the residency, with the support of Acme and within the budget allocated. Please note that the dates of the six-month residency are not negotiable.
Selection Criteria
The Residency will be awarded to an applicant who:
- Has displayed a high level of achievement and dedication in their practice since graduation.
- Demonstrates clarity of purpose and a compelling rationale for their proposed residency.
- In the opinion of the judges would benefit artistically and professionally from the award at this stage of their career.
Applications
- To be considered for selection, applicants must submit all parts of the online application form, together with required application materials, by the deadline.
- Eligible applications will be considered by a selection panel comprising suitable representatives of the National Art School.
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview at the National Art School.
Application Requirements
Proposal
- Artist Statement summarising current practice (no more than 500 words).
- Rationale for undertaking the London-based residency at Acme (no more than 500 words).
- Identify any specific requirements (e.g. access, workshops, OH&S, etc.).
CV and Images
- A summary CV (of not more than two pages) in PDF format.
- A maximum of 10 images, presented in PDF format, with only one image per slide. Each slide should include the name of artist, title, date, medium, and dimensions: For moving image-based artists only, a high-quality video of up to two minutes presented as a single-track show reel. The panel reserves the right to not assess applications that do not include specified supporting material correctly formatted as outlined above.
Referees
- All applicants are required to state the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of two referees.
Conditions of Entry
- Applicants must abide by all the regulations of the award.
- The selectors’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The successful applicant must strictly agree to abide by the conditions of residence at Acme.
- The selectors reserve the right to withhold the award if in their opinion the standard of applications is insufficient to warrant awarding.
- The selected applicant will be required to maintain communication with the Residency Coordinator during the residency, and provide a 3-month report.
Acquittal of residency
Post- residency, the selected applicants will be required to:
- Take part in a lecture or panel discussion about the residency to students and alumni in 2025, where they will speak for approximately 45 minutes about their residency, to a PowerPoint presentation.
- Provide high-resolution photographs and a quote of approximately 200 words that can be used by NAS and the Lansdowne Foundation for promotional purposes and in publications including the Annual Report and Yearbook.
- Submit an approximately 1000-word report no later than eight weeks post-residency regarding their residency, experience and project.
Applications are now closed for 2025 residencies
CONTACT
Lily Fenwicke
International Residencies Coordinator
+61 2 9339 8717
[email protected]
We encourage all eligible candidates to apply, regardless of whether this is your first residency application. Please contact the International Residencies Coordinator to discuss any accessibility requirements or adjustments that can be made to your application process.
‘Queer Contemporary: Chaosophy’, as part of Mardi Gras 2025, is now open until Saturday 8 March.
Curated by Dr Liz Bradshaw, with work by artists Kika Kereru Baker, Daniel Browning, Sam Chan, Blake Griffiths, Frankie L.A, nikita lelu, r e a, Victoria Spence, Jake Starr, Ali Tahayori, Magic Young and Justine Youssef.
Three generations of queer artists make and break language across the intersections of art, activism, poetry and performance. Through their individual aesthetics and distinct voices, together the artists disrupt histories, languages, conventional silences and institutional spaces, using and queering language to propose alternate perspectives on and interpretations of identity and ways of being.
11am – 5pm Monday to Saturday
Building 25 Project Space
Free admission, all welcome
Feb 17
NAS Library is proud to launch their 2025 Library Stairwell Gallery programming with this years LSG show for Queer Contemporary, ‘Subtexts’, opening this Thursday 13 February.
‘Subtexts’ unites four artists whose work demonstrates the complexities of queer identity, each considering their own personal relationship with queerness. The show offers alternative narratives and styles that challenge notions of queer uniformity, opting to explore the undertones and implications of queerness as a dislocated front.
‘Subtexts’ asks of the ambiguous term; Are we united by virtue of our difference, or rather the unique positions it presents us?
Featuring works by
@professional__disoppointment
@sarah_r_serfati
@theolathouras
@ziggywoodartist
Feb 9
Three generations of queer artists make and break language across the intersections of art, activism, poetry and performance in ‘Queer Contemporary: Chaosophy’, as part of Mardi Gras 2025.
Through their individual aesthetics and distinct voices, together the artists disrupt histories, languages, conventional silences and institutional spaces, using and queering language to propose alternate perspectives on and interpretations of identity and ways of being.
Opening night Thursday 13 February, with special guests Swamp Daisies.
RSVP at link in the bio.
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Sam Chan, ‘Transfiguration’, 2024, Chillagoe White Pearl marble, mild steel, incense, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Jennifer Leahy (Silversalt)
Ali Tahayori, ’The four elements: fire, earth, water, air (detail)’, 2022, hand cut mirrors plaster on wood, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Daniel Kukec Photography
nikita lelu, ’I drip into a bath and drift’, 2024, glazed mid-fire paperclay, underglaze, terra sigillata, silver, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Jennifer Leahy (Silversalt Photography)
Magic Young, ‘Evulva’, 2024, nylon, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Jennifer Leahy (Silversalt)
Feb 6
We’re looking for an Exhibitions Project Officer!
The role has a focus on major Indigenous exhibition projects currently in development for the National Art School as well as touring programs. The role assists with the delivery and coordination of Gallery programs, talks, and other events in the gallery spaces.
You have a background in visual art, art history, curatorship and gallery experience. You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, along with strong organisational and project management experience.
Note this is an Identified Role and is open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants only, in accordance with Section 14(D) of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act, 1977 NSW.
Application deadline extended to Sunday 9 February.
Apply at the link in bio.
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Ronan Pirozzi, `Serpentine`, 2023; `Trajectory`, 2023; `Desolate`, 2023; installation view, undo the day, NAS Gallery, Sydney, 2024, oil on welded steel, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Zan Wimberley
Feb 2
The National Art School has today announced respected Australian academic, writer and curator Dr Kristen Sharp as the next Director and Chief Executive Officer.
Kristen joins the National Art School with extensive experience in the fields of contemporary art and tertiary education having spent six years as Associate Dean Discipline, Art in the School of Art at RMIT University, and previously 9 years as Academic Lead Art History and Theory at RMIT. She will commence her new role at the National Art School on 24th February 2025.
Read the full media release at the link in bio.
Jan 30
