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 …

Friday 14 April 2023

“The Dobell Drawing Prize #23 finalist works on view at the NAS Gallery push the potential of drawing practices to reflect on the ‘collective mood’. The Dobell Drawing Prize #23, presented by the National Art School (NAS) with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, shines a light on the most foundational art form and the artists who dare to stretch its traditional boundaries.” Article by Celina L…

Thursday 13 April 2023

Linda Morris, Sydney Morning Herald Arts Editor, speaks with NAS Director Steven Alderton about John Olsen’s enduring legacy and incomparable contributions to Australian art. ‘Steven Alderton, director of Olsen’s alma mater, the National Art School, said the artist was a “poet of the Australian landscape, an author of our harbour, a storyteller of our country, and a lyricist of humanity”. “Foreve…

Friday 31 March 2023

Nick Galvin, Sydney Morning Herald Arts Editor, writes on Jane Grealy’s Dobell Prize Winning work, Maria’s Garden, Scheme C. “One morning eight years ago, Jane Grealy was standing in her backyard looking vaguely over the fence into her neighbour’s lush garden, contemplating what the future might hold. She’d just recovered from a debilitating illness and knew she didn’t want to return to her job a…