Lines of Fire: Armed Forces to Art School

July 10 - August 13, 2008

Lines of Fire is an exhibition that brings together two worlds that are perceived to be diametrically opposed: the constraints of army life and the creative freedom of the artists' life. This two-part exhibition presents work by artists who trained at the National Art School through the CRTS grant scheme following their service in the World War II, many of whom went on to become major contributors to Australian art practice.

Exhibition Talk, Saturday, July 12, 1pm FREE
Lines of Fire co-curators Deborah Beck and Katie Dyer walk you through the exhibition and discuss the war period, student days and post-student period represented

Art Forum Series, Panel Discussion
Wednesday, July 23, 1pm FREE
Tom Bass, Norman Hetherington, Margaret Fink and Guy Warren

Seamless: Object & Image

15 May - 25 June, 2008

The exhibition presents a selection of young Australian artists working across disciplines such as painting, drawing, video and photography alongside works from the MCA Collection demonstrating how the interplay between different pictorial media and technologies creates compelling art. Featured artists: Destiny Deacon, Patrick Hartigan, James Lynch, David Noonan, Tony Schwensen, Tim Silver and Emma White. The National Art School acknowledges the assistance of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the preparation of this project.

SALAD DAYS:
Justin Balmain, Deidre Brollo, Catherine Fox, David Wills

Justin Balmain Soft Painting 1 2007 © the artist

February 21 - March 29 2008

Salad Days is the first in a series presenting the work of the artists who participate in the National Art School's Artist in Residence program. In 2007 four talented young artists were selected to maintain studios on campus for the school year allowing for sustained periods of interaction with students and faculty. The title Salad Days plays with the idiomatic expression used to refer to the days when we are young and relatively inexperienced and idealistic, but can also mean a time when we are at the peak of our abilities.

THE WEEKLY BUS-RAIL TICKET:
Noel McKenna

Noel McKenna Service Station, Paddington 1988 © the artist

February 21 - March 29 2008

This exhibition presents little or never before seen works by McKenna which he made as a young man after moving from Brisbane to Sydney in the late 1970s. These early watercolours, drawings and prints convey the human dimension in the modern city, depicting the familiar and changing terrain of Sydney from Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Centennial Park and beyond.