Friday 02 July 2021

On Friday 11 June, the National Art School opened John Olsen: Goya’s Dog. John Olsen: Goya’s Dog spans eight decades of the artist’s practice, from the 1950s, when he first visited Spain, to the present. This exhibition tracks the influences of these Spanish encounters on the artist’s sensibility, his palette, and how he views the landscape and the human condition. It delves into the introspecti…

Monday 21 June 2021

Article by John McDonald The public Olsen is a great performer but occasionally, alone in the studio at night, a different persona emerges. John Olsen: Goya’s Dog is an exhibition originally conceived by the late Bill Wright, and followed through by National Art School director Steven Alderton. The idea, as explained in a letter that Wright wrote to Olsen, was to look at the artist’s “introspec…

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…