Friday 27 November 2020

NAS Director and CEO Steven Alderton discusses the repercussions of proposed cuts, and in the wider context of Australian visual arts education. This has been an extremely difficult year for the arts in Australia, with the creative industries hard hit by COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. But 2020 isn’t over yet. The Australian National University has announced proposed cuts to its highly respe…

Thursday 26 November 2020

For this month’s NAS Retake we look at the incredible collection of casts in the NAS Archive and Collection. To view the remnants of the facial features of Michelangelo’s David in the NAS cast collection is somewhat like considering the curious pieces of flotsam and jetsam washed ashore after a tropical storm. They have become, in so many ways, castaways adrift on an island continent. As for Da…

Wednesday 25 November 2020

On Thursday 19 November 2020, NAS student Nina Walton was profiled on 2SER’s Interview with an artist. Nina Walton creates ethereal works that look like delicate pieces of fabric. She uses a mixture of mediums, sometimes pen on paper, sometimes pencil on paper, and other times needle and thread on canvas. Tune in to the full podcast through the link below. LISTEN NOW

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Article by Gina Fairley ArtsHub No one would call 2020 normal. So the celebration of getting through this year is no greater felt than by graduating students. On Friday, 11 December the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney, will present the work of 115 Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) students – work created during the pandemic in their final year. ‘We have students showing work in our galle…

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Article by Elizabeth Fortescue The Art Newspaper The National Art School in Sydney’s inner suburb of Darlinghurst will open on 4 November a National Centre for Drawing with a charter to become internationally recognised for “nurturing a curiosity around drawing that is grounded in precedent but extends towards the unknown”. The National Centre for Drawing will be an Australian first, and will …