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National Art School.
The Dobell School Program The Dobell School was initiated in 1988 by the National Art School and the Curriculum Support and Performing Arts Units of the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET). It is generously sponsored by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.
AGNSW. Works by William Dobell (Collection)
Works by William Dobell at the Art Gallery of NSW.
AGNSW. Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial
Drawing is fundamental to the practice of each of the ten contemporary artists in this exhibition. Their works range from watercolour to film, performance and sculpture, highlighting how the art of drawing can often defy classification. The exhibition reveals how the process of drawing itself allows these artists to engage with the landscape – urban, rural, natural or constructed – and the importance of a tangible subject to their work.
ART EXPRESS
ART EXPRESS is an annual series of exhibitions of exemplary artworks created by New South Wales visual arts students for the Higher School Certificate examination.
DOBELL HOUSE
Situated on the shores of beautiful Lake Macquarie is the Nation Heritage listed Dobell House, the home and studio of the late Sir William Dobell, one of Australia’s most famous painters. The home and its contents offer a unique experience of the life and work of Wangi’s “Gentle Genius”.
MEDIA ARTICLES
The Visual Arts Faculty has been awarded the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation award for excellence in teaching, promoting and engaging young people in Visual Arts education.
The Faculty has been recognised as the best in NSW for their outstanding work with Higher School Certificate students in last year's HSC Visual Arts exam in particular, but also over a number of years.
Every year, the State's top 240 HSC Visual Arts students are represented in the annual Artexpress Exhibition which showcases the student's Bodies of Work and is viewed at the Art Gallery of NSW as well as regional and city galleries throughout the year.
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THIS month, a weather-scarred boulder weighing more than a tonne will take centre stage at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney. It will have made its journey there on the back of a truck driven by an obliging property owner on behalf of artist Peter Sharp after having been prised from its resting place at Fowler’s Gap, 140km north of Broken Hill in far western NSW. Clustered around this monolith will be small sculptures made from sticks, leaves and other natural materials, alongside a weathered 5.5m wooden sculpture bleached silver by the elements.
“I’ve been drawing this place for 25 years or more, and I decided I wanted to bring a witness back, an artefact,” Sharp says in a phone call to Review on his way to the Jacaranda Drawing Award in Grafton. “And if we have enough money, I want to take it back at the end of the show and put it back in exactly the same place.”
This rustic tableau of built and found objects, along with a group of charcoal drawings, represents Sharp’s exhibit in the inaugural Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, the replacement for the Dobell Prize for Drawing held annually at the AGNSW. First awarded in 1993, the acquisitive prize was initiated by the AGNSW and the trustees of the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation — established from the estate of the Australian artist — to encourage excellence in drawing and draughtsmanship.
For a full interactive presentation from The Australian (images and videos).
Click Here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au
The PDF version of the article on The Weekend Australian (Review) can be downloaded HERE
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John McDonald, SMH 5 December 2014
One cannot travel very far in any discussion of drawing without coming across a famous statement from the great neo-classicist, Jacques-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: "Drawing is the probity of art."
"Probity" means both "correctness" and "goodness", but also "moral integrity", which allows us to imagine Ingres was saying: "to thine own self be true".
This Shakespearean motto could be applied to any of the artists in Drawing Out, the inaugural Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of NSW. Curator Anne Ryan, has taken landscape as her theme, and it's an appropriate starting place. Landscape is one of the few areas in which Australia may be said to have contributed something original to modern art's global patrimony.
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Recorded live at National Art School inside the exhibition.
Interview with Paula Latos-Valier, Art Director of the Foundation. The interviewer is Maisy Stapleton.
Broadcast on Thurs 26 Sept. 2013 on Eastside Radio 89.7FM, Sydney.
Listen to the interview
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