Tuesday 21 April 2020

NAS alumni and current painting lecturer Les Rice is well-known for his incredibly detailed velvet paintings. His 15+ years as an established tattoo artist complement his artistic practice – both require careful concentration and methodical work. Here the artist takes us through his own oil paint recipe, artist practice and the importance of understanding your medium, in conversation with NAS Cr…

Thursday 16 April 2020

Next up for NAS Retake we have NAS alumni Robert Owen. This week, we took a deep dive into the artist’s practice and looked at how music influences his work. Study for Manta 6/1 (or panel #6) is from the series Music for the Eyes, which was inspired by Arvo Pärt’s work Spiegel im Spiegel and Für Alina. It runs in a sequence of mirror phrases, patterns, structures and sensations. He is interested…

Tuesday 14 April 2020

Tasmanian artist Lucienne Rickard spoke to NAS recently from self-isolation at her home in Franklin. Lucienne brought her year-long project Extinction Studies to the National Art School in March for the opening week of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Since September 2019, Lucienne has been performing in public, drawing recently extinct animals from the International Union for Conservation of…

Tuesday 07 April 2020

As we’re all spending more time inside, we’ve been digging around in our Archive and Collection and rediscovering some brilliant work collected over the years from NAS Alumni. To share it with you, here’s the first in our new series called NAS Retake, celebrating and observing the student works of our alumni. This week, we’re kicking off with Sophie Cape, who graduated from NAS in 2010. When Cap…

Tuesday 07 April 2020

Show us how you transformed your personal places into your new studio spaces More than ever it’s important to stay in touch, support each other and find new ways of channelling our creativity. We would love to see what you’ve been doing at home or in the studio and how you are continuing to make art. Share a photo of yourself or your current workspace using #nasstudiosessions and we will re-post …