Thursday 27 January 2022

Vogue Australia spoke with NAS alum Eliza Gosse about her switch from a degree architecture to pursue her true passion: painting. ‘… the way that National Art School is laid out is you’re there five days a week, and you try out every single different studio. So you’re doing sculpture, printmaking, photography, painting, and you’re in a small cohort of 20 kids. And that class moves from medium to…

Wednesday 15 December 2021

Monday 22 November 2021

Article by Kirsty Francis. ‘A rare sensibility’ is the first solo exhibition of Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen’s work. Curated by Tim and Louise Olsen, in loving memory of their mother a decade after her passing, this exhibition aims to give Valerie the recognition she deserves as one of Australia’s unsung, yet remarkable female artists. The exhibition is on at the Rayner Hoff Project Space in t…

Saturday 20 November 2021

In the lead up to the exhibitions showing across the NAS campus, Artist Profile magazine previewed The Postgrad Show (22–30 Jan) and The Grad Show (11–20 Feb), presenting the amazing work of our 2021 cohort. The exhibitions invite visitors to reflect on, and celebrate, the enduring value of arts education, even (indeed, especially) amidst the uncertainty and instability the sector has faced for t…

Wednesday 17 November 2021

‘Mum wasn’t looking for fame’. The first survey exhibition of Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen’s work hangs in the National Art School’s Rayner Hoff Project Space. In it, we find an overdue opportunity to connect with an astute, devoted artist attuned to global modernist developments in painting, whose work is largely still owned and safeguarded by her children. Read the full article linked below.…