Monday 27 June 2022

Article: Lenny Ann Low Year 12 visual arts students Lily Shepherd and Elena Matiussi-Pimm in Lismore. Photo: Elise Derwin Last week our Undergraduate Coordinator Lorraine Kypiotis travelled to Lismore running two days of workshops with HSC students and their teachers who have been affected by the floods. NAS was so pleased to be able to help these students. When the record-breaking floods of la…

Thursday 23 June 2022

Article: Anthony Segaert Photo: Charles Firth, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, and Dom Knight are among the seven founding editors of the Chaser newspaper, back in the same room together for the first time in over a decade. Steven Siewert  The Chaser team has grown up, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get together for one final laugh. The original team of seven comedians is reuniting for the fi…

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 …