Friday 30 November 2018

Congratulations to alumna Karla Dickens who is the inaugural recipient of the $80,000 Copyright Agency Fellowship for Visual Art, for her upcoming body of work ‘A Dickensian Circus’ that will celebrate the lives of Indigenous boxers and the famous Lismore acrobat Cornelius Sullivan. The work is due to be exhibited at Lismore Art Gallery and Linden New Art Gallery in Melbourne in 2020. …

Wednesday 28 November 2018

NAS alumna Antoinette Barbouttis is declared the winner of this year’s Black Swan Prize for Portraiture. The Black Swan Prize is held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia is in it’s 12th year and is a $50,000 art prize. Read the Article in the Daily Telegraph

Wednesday 07 November 2018

Congratulations to NAS alumni Nadia Odlum and Drawing Lecturer Noel Thurgate, who were announced as winners of the 2018 Kedumba Drawing Award, held at the Orange Regional Gallery. The exhibition of invited artists is current until 2 December, and also includes work by alumni Sophie Cape, Evan Salmon and staff members John Bokor and Kim Spooner. Images: Nadia Odlum, Engagement sequence (o…

Monday 05 November 2018

Congratulations to NAS alumna Antoinette Barbouttis who has been announced as the winner of the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, held by the Art Gallery of Western Australia with her work ‘Alexandra’. This year’s judges described her work as “simultaneously powerful and gentle demonstrating a palpable connection between artist and sitter, sitter and artist.” Other finalists include MFA …

Monday 05 November 2018

Congratulations to NAS alumna and Drawing Lecturer Catherine O’Donnell, who has been awarded the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award for her work Yates Court. The exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is on until 24 November, and other finalists include NAS Fellow Wendy Sharpe, current student Annabelle Wass, and alumni Amanda Fuller, Melinda Le Guay, Deborah Marks, Ro Murray, Ad…