Monday 27 June 2022

Article by Andy Butler. Photograph: Natalie Grono “I’ve never been able to conquer my fear of tsunamis and floods,” Karla Dickens tells me, “so I’ve always lived on top of hills.” Dickens has been living in the Northern Rivers region for 18 years. She’s calling me from her house in Lismore–it was spared in the recent catastrophic floods. It’s devastation in the town. Inconceivable, as Dickens p…

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…