Wednesday 13 October 2021

Buderim-based artist Veronica Cay presents an exhibition of mixed media drawings, works on canvas and ceramic figures in ‘conversations with my aunt’. This series of new works are embodied with imaginary conversations the artist wishes she could have had with an audacious aunt who, in 1936, left her conservative family home in Toowoomba, Queensland, bound for Sydney’s National Art School, never t…

Tuesday 28 September 2021

NAVA launches a new campaign, ‘Sit For An Artist’ urging everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated to support Australia’s creative recovery. The visual arts sector is in crisis. Australian artists and arts workers have been impacted by lockdowns across the country with their exhibitions and commissions cancelled. NAVA’s ‘Sit For An Artist’ campaign has been created in response to deep concerns…

Monday 13 September 2021

Article by Nadine Silva Badtjala artist, academic and NAS alum Dr Fiona Foley has won the top prize at this year’s Queensland Literary Awards for her book which sheds a light on the colonial-era practise of paying Indigenous workers with opium. The book ‘Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897’ took out the $25,000 Q…

Friday 10 September 2021

Veiled Paradise, an exhibition at QUT Art Museum which surveys three decades in the extraordinary career of NAS alum Fiona Foley, closes 26 September 2021. If you can’t get to Brisbane to see the show–or if you’ve been but still want to know more– the biography Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life offers an in-depth look at what drives the Badtjala artist. Written by Louise Martin-Chew, this bio…

Wednesday 25 August 2021

The National Art School’s annual Open Day is a highlight of the year, giving visitors the chance to explore Australia’s leading independent fine art school. NAS Open Day 2021 is scheduled for Saturday 13 November from 10am – 4pm. Usually Open Day takes place in September on the heritage-listed Darlinghurst campus, however this year it has been rescheduled to due to lockdown. While we hope to w…