Monday 02 September 2019

By Heath Gilmore The National Art School is renowned for its bright young things bustling with brio, eager to shake up the world. Its almost 100-year history is a roll call of artists of national and international renown, including Max Dupain, John Olsen, Margaret Olley, Tim Storrier, Cressida Campbell, Fiona Hall, Lucy Culliton, Juz Kitson, Guy Maestri, Natasha Walsh and Justine Varga. Yet the…

Saturday 31 August 2019

By Tim Douglas NAS alum Zoe Young was featured in The Australian Weekend Review (31 August 2019) On Boxing Day last year, Australian artist Zoe Young received an email from a Canadian winemaker asking if she might paint a portrait of the man’s brother. There were two important things to note: the subject of the would-be painting was in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, and he also may be s…

Tuesday 27 August 2019

By Emma Reid Bundaberg Art Prize ’19 is only weeks away and local artists are busy putting the final touches on their masterpieces before entries close Friday, 30 August. The Bundaberg Art Prize ’19 has four sections and will be judged by National Art School Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory Lorraine Kypiotis.   READ MORE

Tuesday 27 August 2019

By Mark Mordue A new month-long festival called Sedition – self-identified as “a celebration of public art and protest across the 1970s” – is being launched in Sydney at the end of this month. NAS Gallery presents Paper Tigers: Posters from Sydney’s Long ’70s.   READ MORE

Friday 23 August 2019

A new festival rewinding to the oft-political underground arts and music scene of ‘70s Sydney – co-curated by a former Rolling Stone editor. Paper Tigers on view at NAS Gallery from 30 August is a part of the Sedition Festival. Image: Don’t Be Too Polite Girls by an unknown artist READ MORE