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…

Thursday 11 June 2020

Article by Nick Galvin, Kerrie O’Brien and Chloe Wolifson Ten Australian artists, including NAS alumni Reg Mombassa, Fiona Foley, John Olsen and NAS Fellow Wendy Sharpe share what they have been working on during lockdown. Read the full article through the link below. Image: Part of Fiona Foley’s series Hunted II, 2020. Photo: Mick Richards READ MORE

Thursday 11 June 2020

Article by Jane Albert Much like our current students, NAS alumni John Olsen is utilising Zoom to continue teaching his painting classes. “Why should we stop just because of the coronavirus?” he said. It didn’t take long for him to adapt to teaching over Zoom instead, and the classes resumed. “We’ve continued in that kind of way and that’s been rather nice – it’s a long time since I’ve taught.”…

Tuesday 09 June 2020

While undertaking the National Art School’s Onslow Storrier residency in Paris, painter Dani McKenzie (b. 1990) collected old Super-8 film at local flea markets. She based her Visions series on stills from this found footage. McKenzie was interested in isolating moments of movement in the film and translating them into painting. For her, ‘Painting, in this instance, slows down the act of looking,…