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Arts Industry Day: The Neighbour at the Gate Opening Weekend

Where
National Art School
National Art School
Forbes Street & Burton Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
When

Friday 11 July from 10am to 4:15pm

You are warmly invited to join us for an industry day, focused on artist talks and art making opportunities.

Hear directly from the guest curatorium and the featured artists in The Neighbour at the Gate exhibition, charts the entangled legacies of exclusion and resilience, drawing vital parallels between the past and present, memory and nationhood. 

Create a ceramic work to add to James Nguyen’s participatory installation artwork Homeopathies_where new trees grow (2025), or make a fabric tassel inspired by Jacky Cheng’s work Imaginary Homelands (2025). Learn more about the shared histories and stories behind this immersive exhibition.

Schedule:

  • Artist Talk - Jenna Mayilema Lee: 10am – 10.30am

  • Artist Talk – James Nguyen: 10.45am – 11.15am

  • Artist Talk – Jacky Cheng: 11.30am – 12pm

  • Artist-led Demonstration – James Nguyen: 12.15pm – 12.45pm

  • Artist Talk – Dennis Golding: 2pm – 2.30pm

  • Artist-led Demonstration – Jacky Cheng: 3.15pm – 3.45pm

  • Artist Talk – Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson: 3.45pm – 4.15pm

Free admission, all welcome

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