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Wheelforming Techniques
On Campus
21 Jul - 8 Sep 2025 (Mon)
6:00pm - 9:00pmRemy Pajackowski-RussellLearn how to throw pots with a strong architectural form to create objects of simplicity and beauty. Explore the basic structures, movements and techniques of wheelforming in this hands-on course and become proficient on the potter’s wheel.
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The Drama of The Human Face
On Campus
7-11 Jul 2025 (Mon - Fri)
9:30am - 4:30pmKim SpoonerWhat are the challenges for today’s portrait painter? How do you capture a likeness and character from within the traditions of portraiture in an ever-changing world, where technology impacts on how we portray ourselves? Be introduced to the history of portraiture, contemporary practices and portrait painting prizes.Regular price $970.00Regular priceUnit price per$873.00Sale price $970.00 -
Anatomy for Life Drawing: Structure and Action
On Campus
7-11 Jul 2025 (Mon - Fri)
9:30am - 4:30pmDr David BriggsLearn basic anatomical concepts that will enable you to grasp the essential structure and action of the figure in a few lines, leaving you free to focus on the individual character and expressive effect of your drawing, instead of struggling just to make it look like a figure! A life model poses in each session, alternating with group and individual instructions and demonstrations referring to the model, skeleton, anatomical diagrams and master drawings.
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Portrait Drawing: From Sketches to Sustained Studies
On Campus
11 Oct - 29 Nov 2025 (Sat)
10:00am - 2:00pmNoel ThurgateLearn to draw forms and structures of the human head, facial features, body dynamics and discover the connection between the ‘character’ and the ‘face’. Using pencil, charcoal, ink, wash and collage, to make quick sketches and sustained drawings from plaster casts, live models and a self-portrait.
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Drawing the Human Form: Gesture, Proportion and Movement
On Campus
7-11 Jul 2025 (Mon - Fri)
9:30am - 4:30pmStephanie EatherLearn to trust your eye and hand to capture the energy of the model’s poses through gestural mark making as you draw the figure from life, and capture their dynamic movements and poses. Explore the fundamental techniques for life drawing with charcoal, graphite, ink and brushes.Regular price $970.00Regular priceUnit price per$873.00Sale price $970.00 -
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Screenprinting Basics
On Campus
27-28 Sep 2025 (Sat & Sun)
9:30am - 4:30pmJanet Parker-SmithExplore the varied processes of screenprinting starting with basic stencils and moving into photographic techniques. Learn how to create original prints from drawings, photographs and existing images, as well as how to use the darkroom and the computer for photographic processes with image separations and colour mixing.
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Porcelain Workshop: Hand-painted Ceramics
On Campus
27-28 Sep 2025 (Sat & Sun)
9:30am - 4:30pmSassy ParkIn this hands-on two-day workshop, you’ll create exquisite porcelain objects embellished with hand-painted colours. Learn how to work with fine white porcelain clay, make your own watercolour underglazes and model and paint your own unique forms, whether figurative or vessel based.
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Essential Elements of Painting
On Campus
21 Jul - 8 Sep 2025 (Mon)
6:00pm - 9:00pmKevin McKayHave you always wanted to paint but haven’t known where to start? Designed for complete beginners, this course will give you a solid and practical foundation in painting using acrylics and oil paints. Learn simple processes for colour mixing, composition, and perspective, to produce a suite of finished paintings.
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Captivate: Stories from the National Art School and Darlinghurst Gaol
Captivate: Stories from the National Art School and Darlinghurst Gaol reveals some of the incredible stories ‘behind the walls’, including infamous inmates such as the bushranger Captain Starlight, through to the many famous artists that have shaped the National Art School over the past 100 years; its influential academic staff, life models, commercial and graphic designers, unsung women artists and of course the incredible legacy of its alumni, featuring many of Australia’s most significant artists.Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Advanced Screenprinting Techniques
On Campus
7-11 Jul 2025 (Mon - Fri)
9:30am - 4:30pmJanet Parker-SmithExplore advanced processes of screenprinting focusing on photographic images, halftones and multi-layered colour applications. Learn to prepare images for print, colour separations, halftones and experiment with process, colour transparency, and editions.
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Introduction to Classical Oil Painting
On Campus
27-28 Sep 2025 (Sat & Sun)
9:30am - 4:30pmMichelle HiscockDiscover the sensuous beauty of classical oil painting techniques and be guided through a series of structured exercises and demonstrations of methods and specific ways of using materials.
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Abstraction and Landscape Painting Online
Online
23 Jul - 10 Sep 2025 (Wed)
10:00am - 1:00pmFran O’NeillInvigorate your painting practice and expand your visual vocabulary of abstraction and landscape painting. Learn how to draw out the abstract from within the conventions of landscape, looking backwards and forwards, and constantly exploring the rich potential of the painted image.Regular price $464.00Regular priceUnit price per$515.00Sale price $464.00EARLY DISCOUNT -
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Clay Modelling: Portrait from Life
On Campus
22 Jul - 9 Sep 2025 (Tue)
6:00pm - 9:00pmDavid HortonLearn the art of clay modelling and create a life-size portrait bust that captures both likeness and character. Discover the techniques and principles of working with clay, exploring its plastic properties to sculpt a 1:1 scale portrait.
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Hand-Building Contemporary Ceramics
On Campus
26 Jul - 20 Sep 2025 (Sat)
10:00am - 2:00pmTina WheatleyExplore the art of hand-building in clay and create contemporary ceramic artworks, from enhanced vessels to expressive figurative sculptures. Learn the fundamental hand-building techniques—including coil, pinch, slab construction, surface decoration and glazing.
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Hope in Hell: A History of the Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School
Hope in Hell is a rich visual account of one of the oldest and best-preserved examples of colonial Sydney architecture, the Darlinghurst Gaol.Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per -
‘John Olsen: Goya’s Dog’ Exhibition Catalogue
John Olsen: Goya’s Dog spans eight decades of the artist’s practice, from the 1950s, when he first visited Spain, to the present.Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per -
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Abstraction and Landscape Painting Online
Online
8 Oct - 26 Nov 2025 (Wed)
10:00am - 1:00pmFran O’NeillInvigorate your painting practice and expand your visual vocabulary of abstraction and landscape painting. Learn how to draw out the abstract from within the conventions of landscape, looking backwards and forwards, and constantly exploring the rich potential of the painted image.Regular price $464.00Regular priceUnit price per$515.00Sale price $464.00EARLY DISCOUNT -
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Welding Sculptures
On Campus
11 Oct - 29 Nov 2025 (Sat)
10:00am - 4:00pmDavid HortonLearn everything there is to know about welded steel sculpture, and the safe use of oxy acetylene, arc and MIG welding techniques. With demonstrations of joining, cutting, shaping, grinding and bending steel to produce successful sculptures.Regular price $1,332.00Regular priceUnit price per$1,480.00Sale price $1,332.00EARLY DISCOUNT -
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The Drama of The Human Face
On Campus
26 Jul - 20 Sep 2025 (Sat)
10:00am - 2:00pmKim SpoonerWhat are the challenges for today’s portrait painter? How do you capture a likeness and character from within the traditions of portraiture in an ever-changing world, where technology impacts on how we portray ourselves? Be introduced to the history of portraiture, contemporary practices and portrait painting prizes.Regular price $927.00Regular priceUnit price per$1,030.00Sale price $927.00EARLY DISCOUNT -
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Foundations of Drawing: A Beginner’s Journey
On Campus
21 Jul - 8 Sep 2025 (Mon)
10:00am - 2:00pmSadhbha CockburnAre you eager to begin your drawing journey and unlock your innate creativity? Join this beginner’s course to develop essential drawing skills, gain confidence and teach you solid foundations upon which to build your art practice.
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Build Your Professional Arts Practice
On Campus
27-28 Sep 2025 (Sat & Sun)
9:30am - 4:30pmPaul McDonaldAre you eager to move from being an arts enthusiast to a practising, exhibiting and sustainable artist? Learn what it takes to become a professional artist; how to research and understand the investment of time, money, planning, energy and creativity it requires to survive in the arts.
Image courtesy of the Geoff Raby Opening, National Art School
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Introduction to Etching Techniques
On Campus
7-11 Jul 2025 (Mon - Fri)
9:30am - 4:30pmAngus FisherLearn the fine art of copper plate etching, a medium both steeped in tradition and one that allows for exciting approaches to contemporary art making. Discover the wonderful array of marks, tones and working processes that are possible in this alluring and engaging art form.
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Drawing with Threads and Textiles
On Campus
7-11 Jul 2025 (Mon - Fri)
9:30am - 4:30pmArmando ChantThis exciting course combines textiles with creative drawing using diverse techniques with paper, fabric, collage and assemblage. In this course you will explore the materiality of different surfaces. Students will be guided in sketching, painting, weaving and embroidering lines on the surface of papers and textiles.
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Dale Frank: Growers and Showers
Published by the National Art School on the occasion of the exhibition Dale Frank: Growers and Showers, this vibrant 60-page publication has been designed by the artist and features full page colour spreads of Frank’s work, as well as essays by Elspeth Pitt, Senior Curator, National Gallery of Australia and Dr Wes Hill, Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Southern Cross University.Regular price $60.00Regular priceUnit price per