Drawing Week 2024

Welcome to Drawing Week 2024, the National Art School’s program of intensive drawing workshops for students entering 2nd or 3rd year of the BFA, including students who are doing the 3rd Year Drawing Intensive starting in January.

All students must choose one workshop from the range of workshops listed below. Each workshop offers a distinct focus for drawing over the four days from Tuesday 27 February to Friday 1 March* at the National Art School campus and off-campus sites such as the Sydney Opera House and the State Library of NSW.   Each workshop provides scope for students to start the year with a full immersion in the process of making, looking at and thinking about drawing.

*Take note. The ‘Hill End: Excavations’ workshop runs from Monday 26 February to Thursday 29 February. Participants must arrange travel to Hill End and be ready to commence the workshop on Monday morning.

Workshops, lecturers and locations

• • • Drawing with Textiles with Nic Fern and Amelia Skelton in the NAS Sculpture workshop, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Introduction to Colour Theory with Osvaldo Budet and Chelsea Lehmann in the NAS Building 5 Painting Studios, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Proximity with Margaret Roberts and Emma Wise in NAS Building 26.3, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Sound Signal Trace with Ben Denham and Peter Blamey in the NAS Photomedia studio and Building 26-1, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Life Drawing Dialogue with Stephanie Eather and Cameron Ferguson in NAS Building 16 North, 9.30 – 4.30 each day

  
  

  • • Foundations in Watercolour with Charles Cooper in NAS Building 28 G (under the Chapel) 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • The Slow Burn with Paul Higgs and David Horton in NAS Building 25, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Animation with Sarah Eddowes in the Digilab at NAS, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Drawing in the Library with Kim Spooner and Anna Mould at the State Library of NSW, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Drawing on Clay/Drawing with Clay with Stephen Bird in the NAS 2nd year ceramic studio, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • • Hill End: Excavations with Stephanie Monteith in Hill End. This is residential so there are extra travel and accommodation costs.

  
  

  • • Interpreting Found Imagery with Nick Collerson in Building 16 South, 9.30 – 4.30 each day.

  
  

  • Drawing at the Sydney Opera House with Joe Frost and Catherine O’Donnell, 9.30 to 4.30 each day.