Wednesday 22 June 2022

Article: Linda Morris Photo: Artist impression of the National Art School makeover.  A total of $9.4 million has been allocated over three years to advance the National Art School’s master plan to redevelop its campus within the sandstone walls of the historic Darlinghurst Gaol. “It allows the National Art School to begin progressing the master plan and does send a signal to the art school, th…

Monday 20 June 2022

Article: Elizabeth Fortescue Photo: Kay Lanceley, at her home in Redfern, contributed valuable memories to the show.  Kate Geraghty  Kay Lanceley is under no illusion. Her role as key advisor on a retrospective exhibition of work by Colin Lanceley, her late husband, comes with a burden of personal gravity. “It’s my last hurrah – the last thing I can do for Colin,” Kay says. At 84, she can cer…

Monday 20 June 2022

Curated by Sioux Garside, this new major exhibition celebrates Colin Lanceley (1938-2015), a Modernist trailblazer who believed in celebrating the joyous qualities of life in his vibrant, three-dimensional art. After studying at NAS in the 1950s, which he described as “the opening of my life”, he returned to teach there from the 1980s, then in the 1990s helped write a new chapter for the School …

Friday 17 June 2022

Join us in July for our Winter School Holiday Programs 4 – 15 July 2022 Our workshops provide young people aged 6–16 with opportunities to engage with artists, art-making and creativity on our NAS campus. Future Makers Programs provide young people aged 6–16 with opportunities to engage with artists, art-making and other forms of creative production on site at NAS. Structured on-campus and onl…

Tuesday 14 June 2022

Colourful babes and dreamy streetscapes with Lotte Alexis Step inside the home of this talented mural artist. Hi Lotte! Tell us a bit about yourself and how you became an artist? I’ve been drawing since I was a kid and, in fact, loved drawing all through high school but had no plans to pursue it or consider it a viable job. I am very grateful to have supportive parents that put forward the idea …