Monday 25 May 2020

‘This is my door. That is yours. Over there lives the tall man who lingers on his balcony, cigarette flaring angry orange. And way to his right, the old couple who watch traffic. Trees start to drop leaves. The air smells sweet. And we work. And we wait.’ – Tanya Overson, NAS MFA 1 Drawing student Art Almanac features the National Art School Library Stairwell Gallery’s first fully online exhibit…

Sunday 24 May 2020

Juz Kitson completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons in Ceramics) in 2009. She now divides her time living between Jingdezhen, a city that is said to produce the highest quality porcelain in China, and her studio in Milton on the south coast of New South Wales. Her ceramic sculptures reveal a fascination with feminine and masculine ambiguous forms and the sensuality of materials. They invariably re…

Sunday 24 May 2020

Karla Dickens is an artist of Wiradjuri, Irish and German heritage, whose work challenges notions associated with gender, inequality, race and violence against Aboriginal women. Her work courageously tackles confronting issues and enables conversations about Aboriginal disadvantage that continues to exist in contemporary Australian society. She incorporates her own text and poetry to emphasise th…

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Hear from National Art School alum Bronte Leighton-Dore, as she discusses her latest exhibition A Feeling Amongst the Motion at Martin Browne Contemporary. NAS Creative Producer Sebastian Goldspink sits down with Leighton-Dore in her exhibition as she shares her personal experience as an artist during these unprecedented times. Watch the full interview linked below.

Tuesday 19 May 2020

For our second work to be presented in the evolving online exhibition On Stillness with Newcastle Art Gallery, we have chosen NAS alum Fiona Lowry’s ‘Gliding over all’. Lowry is known for her sensual and dreamy renderings of people and place, and for her contemporary approach to life-sized figure painting. The title of Lowry’s work is taken from Walt Whitman’s poem Gliding O’er All, from Leaves …