Skip to main content
  1. The Dictionary of Sydney
  2. Multimedia
  3. East Sydney Technical College 1936

East Sydney Technical College 1936

Contributed By
National Art School
(NAS Archives)

Browse

  • Browse
    • Artefacts
    • Buildings
    • Events
    • Natural Features
    • Organisations
    • People
    • Places
    • Structures
    • Entries
    • Multimedia
    • Subjects
    • Roles
    • Contributors
Connections
Appears in
National Art School
Subjects
Adaptive reuse Prisons Vocational education
Buildings
Darlinghurst courthouse
Organisation
East Sydney Technical College National Art School
Places
Darlinghurst Darlinghurst Gaol

Footer

  • Home
  • About
  • Copyright
  • Contact

Footer Secondary

  • Contribute
  • Donate

National Art School

The National Art School is an independent higher education institution with a long and distinguished history as a major art school in Australia.

National Art School

The National Art School has been at the centre of Sydney's art scene for almost a century, and has nurtured the talents of generations of artists who have studied and worked in studios within the walls of the old Darlinghurst Gaol.

Adaptive reuse

Prisons

Vocational education

Darlinghurst courthouse

full record »

Sandstone court complex in Darlinghurst Road opened in 1842 and still in legal use.

East Sydney Technical College

Originally an annexe to Sydney Technical College, it operated independently between 1955 and 1996 when it became the National Art School.

full record »

Darlinghurst

full record »

Inner suburb to the east of the city which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.

Darlinghurst Gaol

full record »

Sydney's main gaol from its opening in 1841, later used as an internment camp, technical college and art school.

National Art School

Art college that grew out of the drawing and art classes of the Technical and Working Men's College and has nurtured some of Sydney's most famous artists.

full record »