The National Art School acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners on whose lands, water and skies we meet and share.
William Potanin

William Potanin

William Potanin (BFA Printmaking) is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works on unceded Gadigal lands. His work explores Site as a space of constant interactions between materials, historical residues, and bodily functions, produced artworks become artefacts of larger social processes. Investigating how distance erodes language into form. A stone arm was discovered on the rocky beaches of Italy weathered by the sea. The relics ounce soft surface worn down to its geological structure. Floating, half submerged in the ruins of meaning. William was the recipient of The Bettina McMahon Drawing prize (2024) and the Ellen Lee O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award (2024) and has exhibited broadly most recently at the 2025 NAS Library Book Prize and at Rofe Street Gallery (Solo show). Potanin’s works are included in the collections of Curtain University, RMIT, and the University of South Queensland.

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States Of Becoming
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William Potanin

States Of Becoming

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$450.00

Maybe It's A Contradiction That We Give Something So Fleeting The Idea It Will Last Forever
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William Potanin

Maybe It's A Contradiction That We Give Something So Fleeting The Idea It Will Last Forever

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Gesture Of Transfiguration
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Gesture Of Transfiguration

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Document (Gesture Of Transfiguration)
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Document (Gesture Of Transfiguration)

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Document (Stone Arm)
William Potanin

Document (Stone Arm)

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Stone Arm
William Potanin

Stone Arm

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Gesture (Nailed Through The Foot
William Potanin

Gesture (Nailed Through The Foot

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Document (The Seam)
William Potanin

Document (The Seam)

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$300.00

Document (States Of Becoming)
William Potanin

Document (States Of Becoming)

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$450.00

Document (Old/new gesture)
William Potanin

Document (Old/new gesture)

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Document (In-between)
William Potanin

Document (In-between)

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$300.00