National Art School Gallery

NAS Gallery presents a dynamic exhibition program of group and solo exhibitions by Australian and international artists, as well the end of year Graduate Exhibitions which showcase student work.

Each exhibition is supported by research into relevant historical and contemporary practices. This research is incorporated into each exhibition and its accompanying publications, providing a rich context for the interpretation and understanding of the exhibition.

The Gallery’s program features exhibitions of multi-discipline group and solo projects by Australian and international artists, artist residencies, public programs, research, and numerous publications.

National Art School Gallery

Forbes Street Darlinghurst NSW 2010

02 9339 8686

nas.edu.au

Mon to Sat 11am–5pm.
Free admission.

Exhibitions

The Grad Show 2024

6 Dec - 15 Dec

The Postgrad Show 2024

8 Nov - 17 Nov

Feature

Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Jennifer Yang

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The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

Review

Ivan Cheng on innocence lost

Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.

Anador Walsh

Preview

The art of caring for our environment

A Delicate Terrain, a new exhibition of works drawn from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, looks at our relationship with the environment through the lens of contemporary art.

Briony Downes

Feature

Women love the art world, but does the art world love women?

Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?

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