Thursday 28 July 2022

The National Art School is Australia’s leading fine art school, with an unrivalled studio-based teaching model that has delivered a rich tradition of artistic practice and generations of world-renowned alumni for the past 100 years. Leading into the 21st Century, NAS provides a progressive and holistic art education, and invites the public to join us on Open Day to share our creative com…

Tuesday 26 July 2022

Article by: Linda Morris. Photo: Wendy Whiteley with Steven Alderton, CEO of the National Art School. Wendy Whiteley was 15 when she dropped out of Hornsby Girls High to enrol in art school. She stayed about a year at East Sydney Technical College, in Darlinghurst, eventually following her prodigiously talented boyfriend to Italy. The rest, as they say, is Australian art history. More th…

Thursday 21 July 2022

Article by: Victoria Hynes. Photo: Arash Chehelnabi, Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, photographed by Kate Holmes, courtesy the artist and Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre. Visually and conceptually compelling, Chehelnabi’s deceptively simple paintings subconsciously play with the mind. Executed in a raw, almost childlike style, his practice involves a surr…

Monday 18 July 2022

Article by: Kirsty Francis. Photo: Colin Lanceley, The light fantastic (after Carlo Crivelli), 2003, oil on carved wood and canvas. Marc Sassella and Paul Ridgeway Collection. Photograph: Kirsty Francis Australian artist and teacher Colin Lanceley (1938-2015) lived, breathed and made art. This exhibition, ‘Colin Lanceley: Earthly Delights’ curated by Sioux Garside presents a comprehensiv…

Monday 18 July 2022

Last week NAS welcomed 154 year 11 students from across NSW to undertake the July module of the 2022 HSC Intensive Studio Practice. Working across the campus in 11 classes, the students tested their skills and challenged themselves to hit new heights. We look forward to seeing them again in September. Photo: Cecilia Jackson