Thursday 17 June 2021

Image: John Olsen, Le Soleil, 1965, oil on hardboard, 307.3 x 233.7 cm, private collection, Sydney   Le Soleil is a large ceiling painting, about two by three metres, created by John Olsen in 1965 as a commission for a private owner. It was first exhibited at Clune Galleries in Sydney, 22 April⁠–⁠08 May in 1965. When it was installed on the ceiling of the owner’s family home, Olsen added some fi…

Thursday 10 June 2021

NAS Fellow and Alumnus Guy Warren AM is featured in episode 6 of Art Works. Watch through the link below. WATCH NOW

Friday 04 June 2021

Patricia Piccinini is known as Australia’s foremost artist exploring the relationship between humanity and technology, and the ethical tensions it inspires in the viewer. Daniel speaks to the Melbourne-born artist at her latest show A Miracle Constantly Repeated – where life-like silicon sculptures are spread among the hidden upper rooms of Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station. The city’s COVID-19…

Friday 04 June 2021

Article by Helen Pitt In 1964 when young radical the Reverend Ted Noffs opened the Wayside Chapel, an artist who worked with him at Kings Cross, Tiiu Reissar, painted his portrait for the annual Archibald Prize. Reissar was a lecturer at the National Art School in 1967. Read the full article through the link below. Artist Tiiu Reissar meets Wesley Noffs again, 50 years since she was his art te…

Friday 04 June 2021

Article by Gabriella Coslovich In the lead up to John Olsen: Goya’s Dog, the Financial Review chat with Sydney designer, editor and researcher Kylie Norton, who compiled the catalogue raisonnè of a man often tagged as “Australia’s greatest living artist”, 93-year-old John Olsen, famed for his radiant suns, his trailing paellas, his wetlands bursting with frogs, and his joyously squiggly Australi…