NATIONAL ART SCHOOL DRAWING BREATH SYMPOSIUM

50% OFF FOR CURRENT NAS STUDENTS

A fantastic opportunity to hear dynamic and diverse perspectives on drawing and its role in contemporary practice and art education

Register for the Drawing Breath Symposium now!
PLACES ARE LIMITED
contact 02 9339 8745 or email kate.quinn@det.nsw.edu.au for details

$150.00 standard $100 NAS Staff $75 NAS Students

Registration includes private viewing of the Drawing Breath exhibition and reception on Thursday, 29 March, refreshments, lunch, organised tours of the recently refurbished National Art School historic campus (site of the old Darlinghurst Gaol), open studios, and access to Freestyle: new Australian design for living, a collaboration between Melbourne Museum and Object Gallery, on view at the National Art School.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor ANITA TAYLOR RWA (UK): Artist, Head of College and Professor of Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art, University of Arts, London & Director, Jerwood Drawing Prize

Professor STEPHEN FARTHING RA (UK): Artist, Author & Rootstein Hopkins Professor of Drawing at the University of Arts, London

SPEAKERS
A critical overview of the Drawing Breath exhibition will launch discussion on the relevance of drawing in contemporary practice, the importance of drawing as an educational resource and for artists, curators, educators, critics and writers to bring together current national and international opinions on the subject. Guests include:

BERNARD OLLIS (NSW): Artist & Director, National Art School
PAUL THOMAS (UK): Artist, Author & Co-Founder, Jerwood Drawing Prize
HENDRIK KOLENBERG (NSW): Senior Curator of Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales & Curator of the Dobell Prize for Drawing Professor
TED SNELL (WA): Chair of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council & Dean of Art, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
MERRIN EIRTH (VIC): Artist & Head of Drawing at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne GEOFFREY CASSIDY (NSW): Director of Artbank, the national contemporary art rental service from the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
MARC PASCAL (VIC): Artist & Product Designer featured in Freestyle: new Australian design for living
ANNE LOXLEY (NSW): Director of Penrith Regional Gallery, Writer & Critic
JANS SENBERGS (VIC): Artist
GREG CREEK (VIC): Artist & Lecturer (Sculpture) at RMIT, Melbourne
SIMON COOPER (NSW): Artist & Head of Printmaking, National Art School
WENDY SHARPE (NSW): Artist, Writer & previously the Australian Official Artist attached to the Australian Army History Unit in Dili, East Timor