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Conversion of E wing, East Sydney Technical Col...

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Conversion of E wing, East Sydney Technical College c1921

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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.

Darlinghurst Gaol

Planned from the 1820s, Darlinghurst Gaol was built in stages to designs that shifted with penal theories and government budgets. From 1841 prisoners were kept there, in increasingly overcrowded and unpleasant conditions. After Long Bay prison was opened in 1914 the buildings were used for a range of other purposes.

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.

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Vocational education

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.

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