BERNADETTE MANSFIELD, President

Bernadette has an Honors degree from the National Art School with a further degree in Art Education from CoFA UNSW.  For many years she has been involved in art publishing and promotion. Since 1991 Bernadette has helped organise the international ceramic trianalle held in Gulgong, NSW. She currently sits on the  committee for the National conference to be held in NSW '09. Bernadette teaches part-time and is a member of the Middle Head Artists Colony, where she has her studio. This year she embarks on a research thesis in Art Education.                                                   

Bernadette was involved in founding the National Art School Theatre Society (in which she is still active) and also the NAS newspaper The Oily Rag.  


 

 DIANE VUKELIC, Co-Vice President

 

ADRIAN FARROW, Co-Vice President

A publisher by day of a range of magazines including Australian Art Review. Particularly fond of printmaking and sculpture who happened upon the NAS Summer School a few years back and has been a NAS fanatic ever since. He is very keen to see the students of NAS succeed in the world of art in greater and greater numbers. Adrian is, as indeed are all the members of the Fonas Committee, determined that NAS and it's atelier methods of teaching, which has produced so many of Australia's leading artists for the last ninety years, remains as a keystone of NAS art edcation. Adrian would also like to see the public at large to be more aware of NAS as an historical, architectural and living cultural treasure.

 

   
MICHAEL BURFIELD, Secretary
   
WENDY THURGATE

 

 

VICTORIA ALEXANDER

Victoria's major for her BFA at NAS was Painting. She has her Honours Degree in Drawing and during 2010 her second book 'One', which includes about 200 or so of her photographs, is to be published by Murdoch. Her first book being 'The Bathers Pavilion Cookbook'. She has been a Fashion Editor for Vogue; Fashion and Decorating Editor for Cosmopolitan, Art Director and Stylist for film and still photography including work by Directors Ray Lawrence and Peter Weir, a Board Member of the Historic Houses Trust Foundation, and a design consultant. Victoria founded the film company, 'The Film Business'; a small hotel in Sydney CBD, 'The Russell', and a restaurant and cafe on the beach at Balmoral.

   

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER(S)

JENNIFER STUCKEY CLARKE