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 his fathe…

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 One of Australia…

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 said. Re…

Monday 01 March 2021

Artspace and Create NSW are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2021 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. A shortlist of up to 8 artists will be selected by an independent panel of peers man…

Monday 22 February 2021

Article by Sam Bolt Bathurst Regional Art Gallery [BRAG] is set to launch three exciting exhibitions this Saturday exploring national identity, lesser-known stories of the Central West and references to iconic illustrations. Lazy Dynamite explores the work of Sydney-based ceramic artist and NAS alumnus Casey Chen, who incorporates folklore, mythology and pop culture in a homage to Chinese porce…