Wednesday 04 May 2022

Two very successful Senior Schools programs ran on campus last week, the 2022 Dobell Drawing School for Year 11 and the last module of the 2021 HSC Intensive which finally went ahead after being postponed last year due to COVID-19. Students came from across NSW, with 63 students from 28 schools for the Dobell and 111 students from 70 schools for HSC. Pop-up exhibitions presented their wo…

Friday 29 April 2022

Article by Jenny Valentish. Photograph: Katy Marks. “It’s not about the typical male gaze,” says Twyford-Moore of the models. “And I also like to find people who appeal to the queer gaze.” NAS alumni Bligh Twyford-Moore, an illustrator and a roadie, thought a life-drawing club would be a “cool throwback idea”. He took inspiration from clubs he’d seen in Melbourne, both in terms of having…

Wednesday 13 April 2022

Article by Linda Morris. Photo by Sam Mooy. It’s been two weeks since the MP farewelled the NSW Parliament, and two days since the former arts minister was named as a board member of the Australian Council for the Arts for a three-year term, among a rush of party appointments before the election. Harwin takes his seat at the cafe at the National Arts School after his career swap. He is s…

Monday 04 April 2022

Article by Linda Morris The Darlinghurst Law Courts would become the centre of a new cultural precinct opening the historic sandstone landmark to Oxford St and the National Art School under plans foreshadowed by the City of Sydney. Arresting the exodus of creatives out of the CBD is a key objective of Lord Mayor Clover Moore in the city’s 2050 vision released Friday. Opening the Law Cour…

Monday 28 March 2022

Elioth Gruner, Michelago Valley c.1922, oil on canvas. 91 x 136 cm. National Art School Collection, Gift of the Gruner estate, c.1939. When he died in 1939 at the age of 57, Elioth Gruner (b. 1882, Gisborne, NZ) left two large paintings of the Michelago Valley unfinished.  Although the Gruner Estate donated them soon afterwards to the National Art School as teaching aids u…