Wednesday 05 August 2020

As part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN, artist Teresa Margolles from Mexico came to the National Art School to create an original installation in the NAS Gallery. Her work for NIRIN, Approximation to The Scene of The Facts, references places in Sydney where women have been murdered or disappeared. Teresa and a group of volunteers performed a ritual sponging of water to collect particles a…

Monday 03 August 2020

Article by Linda Morris Sydney Morning Herald sat down with NAS alumni and Painting Lecturer Les Rice and spoke about the Archibald Prize work he submitted during the extended entry deadline. Second year BFA student Lesley Wengembo is also featured in the article for his entry of NAS security guard Mal Nagobi. Read more though the link below. Images: Les Rice. Photo: Steven Siewert…

Tuesday 28 July 2020

For our final instalment of On Stillness, we have chosen a work by Jacqueline Hennessy who graduated from NAS in 2019 with a Masters of Fine Art (Painting). In her ghostly paintings of female figures, Hennessy explores how to give visual form to her lived experience of being in the world. Her painting process involves staining clear primed Belgian linen with thin washes of raw umber and lead whit…

Monday 27 July 2020

India Mark’s exquisite still life paintings prove that small can be beautiful, and that paintings of simple domestic items can portray a calm majesty that is not often found in larger works. She describes the work as a response to Morandi’s devotion to still life painting, and says it represents the death of small moments of pleasure in our day-to-day lives. A recent graduate of the National Art…

Tuesday 14 July 2020

Justine Roche’s work explores early photographic processes such as the wet collodion process or ‘tintype’ photography. She is drawn to this medium for its unpredictability and timeless aesthetic. Here / Now (2019) comprises 65 portraits of female art students who graduated from the National Art School in 2019. Each image is directly exposed onto a metal plate and Roche’s sitters must hold a stil…