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Thursday 09 July 2026
Applications are now open for The 25th Dobell Drawing Prize. The Dobell Drawing Prize is Australia’s leading prize for drawing, and an unparalleled celebration of technique, innovation and expanded practice. Presented at the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, this biennial exhibition continues to highlight the enduring relevance and changing role of dra…
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Friday 23 August 2019
Friday 23 August 2019
Article by Clare McCabe Science collided with art at the Corridor project for National Science Week on the weekend. Scientist Doctor Joanne Lenehan and ceramic artist (Former Head of Ceramics at NAS) Merran Esson co-facilitated a weekend field-trip working with artists, students and teachers to identify the relationship between humans and nature near Wyangala. Photo: Clare McCabe READ MORE
Thursday 22 August 2019
Thursday 22 August 2019
NAS Director and CEO Stevcn Alderton is judging the 2019 National Biennial Outsider Art Awards in Brisbane, the inaugural award is organised by Art From The Margins and will be announced on 6 September. READ MORE
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Celebrating Sydney’s dynamic poster art and public protest movements, from the late 1960s through the ’70s to the early ’80s, the National Art School Gallery in conjunction with Sedition: a festival of art, music and pictures presents Paper Tigers: Posters of the long 70s from 30 August – 12 October 2019. Image: Chips Mackinolty, 3rd Annual Christmas is False Consciousness Eve Party, 1978. Tin S…
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Including more than 200 posters, album covers and ephemera sourced from private and state collections and the National Art School archive, ‘Paper Tigers’ re-engages with Sydney’s ‘70s counter culture by focusing on the creative hub of Darlinghurst and its influence on music, art, theatre and politics. Curator Toby Creswell comments, ‘It was in Darlinghurst – out of the sight and mind of mainstrea…
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Article by Merrell Hambleton Photo by Alana Dimou NAS alum, Alana Wilson, an Australian artist, has always been interested in decay – the ways gravity, heat and time alter and transform. On childhood hikes through the varied landscape of Wellington, New Zealand, where she grew up, Wilson would pocket shells and small animal bones. To the artist, these objects were relics of “the physicality and…
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