Wednesday 31 March 2021

Article by Rose of Sharon Leake Artist and NAS alumnus Guy Warren, Archibald Prize winner, educator and respected painter, this year celebrates his 100th birthday. On 16 April 2021, Warren will not only celebrate his milestone birthday but will unveil an exhibition of works at The National Art School, From the Mountain to the Sky: Guy Warren Drawings, which will bring together 100 drawin…

Friday 26 March 2021

Article by Nick Galvin Multi award-winning artist Euan Macleod has won the $30,000 Dobell Drawing Prize with a pastel-on-paper work entitled Borderlands. Each of the 15 postcard-sized images in the work depict scenes from the NSW/Queensland border when it briefly reopened in July at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown. Read the full article through the link below. Photo: James Alcock …

Friday 26 March 2021

Article by Neha Kale Domesticity has long informed NAS alumnus Mitch Cairns’ visual vernacular. He’s an artist for whom motifs from everyday life – an apple core, say, or a bathroom mirror – become the stuff of witty and intelligent paintings whose rewards grow the longer you look. When he was commuting to Sydney’s National Art School, he supported himself by working as a labourer for h…

Monday 08 March 2021

Choose to Challenge In line with this year’s International Women’s Day theme Choose to Challenge, we speak with two of our powerhouse Dobell Drawing Prize #22 judges Lucy Culliton and Michelle Belgiorno and celebrate their achievements as women artists. Image: Anna Mould, Dust and Metal, 2020, ink and coloured pencil on paper, 120 × 150 cm, courtesy and © the artist …

Monday 08 March 2021

Article by Elizabeth Fortescue The National Centre for Drawing in Darlinghurst is honouring Warren with its first ever exhibition, which opens on his birthday. The centre celebrates experimental drawing and is an initiative of the National Art School where Warren studied after the war. “On the day I was discharged from the army, I walked up to the National Art School and enrolled,” he sa…