Monday 15 May 2023

“Mr. Olsen’s early work drew the attention of Robert Shaw, a wealthy businessman, who paid for him to go to Europe for three years. There, his study of Spanish artists crystallized his understanding of painting as not just depicting a scene but being “about a feeling, emotion and an experience,” Steven Alderton, director of the National Art School in Sydney, formerly the East Sydney Technical Col…

Monday 08 May 2023

“Eliza, 28, is a Sydney-based artist known for her paired-back oils of suburban Australian landscapes and architecture. She was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2022 with her first attempt at portraiture and is a finalist again this year with her work ‘Breakfast at ours’. Her mother, Jules, also lives in Sydney” Philippa Coates writes for the Financial Review. READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Thursday 27 April 2023

Experience The National Art School’s unique learning environment and studio-based arts education with hands-on tuition and technical and conceptual approaches to learning. From on-campus studio sessions in drawing, painting, ceramics and printmaking, to online courses in digital drawing, watercolours and creative practices for artists. See the below highlights from our Term Three, and check out…

Monday 17 April 2023

Ella Dreyfus, a contemporary visual artist and academic at the national Art school in Sydney speaks to Nitza Lowenstein on SBS Hebrew. Ella’s father is a Holocaust survivor from Germany. “Dreyfus Drei” is a short documentary that Ella Dreyfus filmed after extensive research about her family identity. Listen to the podcast on SBS. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Monday 17 April 2023

“The first time John Olsen applied for Sydney’s National Art School, he failed the entry test. That was in 1945 as a teenager. In 2021, aged 93, he told this story with great relish to the opening night audience at what was to be his last major exhibition, John Olsen: Goya’s Dog. It was in the NAS Gallery at the National Art School, where he did eventually get in to study in the early 1950s, and …