Wednesday 01 July 2020

Article by Lissa Christopher This year, TV personality Rove McManus is coming at art from an interesting new angle, as host of Life Drawing Live, a novel, one-off SBS TV program that will be like a nationwide life drawing class with a twist. The class will go live to air on SBS on Saturday 4 July at 8.30pm, taught by NAS Head of Drawing Maryanne Coutts, and former teacher and NAS Fellow Wendy Sh…

Wednesday 01 July 2020

Our exciting short courses return to the NAS campus and continue online The National Art School is thrilled to re-open the gates of its Darlinghurst campus to resume the Short Courses from 1 August, as well as continue the popular Online Short Courses in the new Term Three Public Programs. Study at NAS to gain the confidence and skills you desire to express your unique visual language. The Short…

Wednesday 01 July 2020

For our latest Artist Insider video, we talk to Namila Benson, journalist, broadcaster and host of The Art Show on ABC Radio National. Namila talks about her artist interviews for NIRIN, the depiction of black bodies, how a boat united many communities, and why the 22nd Biennale of Sydney is a gamechanger. After closing in March 2020 due to Coronavirus, NIRIN reopened to the public on June 1, an…

Thursday 25 June 2020

Sarah Goffman’s White Series (2009-13) is a rumination on arrangement. It plays on well-established display techniques in contemporary art and pays tribute to the works of Australian ceramicist Gwynn Hanssen Pigott. Goffman describes herself as a ‘trash converter’, transforming plastic detritus into pristine, venerable objects. She painstakingly cleans single-use PET bottles and containers before…

Thursday 18 June 2020

Many poets, artists and filmmakers have appreciated the expansive Michelago Valley, situated south of Canberra in the Monaro region of New South Wales. Along with his mentor George Lambert, Elioth Gruner (1882- 1939) was captivated by the subtle play of light across the valley. When he died at the age of 57 in 1939, he left two large paintings of Michelago Valley unfinished, and the Gruner Estate…