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Yirrinkirripwoja Jilamara
Each August, art centres from the Tiwi Islands join forces to showcase their works in the big smoke, giving artists from the region the opportunity to share their art and...
Culture to Couture
Although much of the 2021 DAAF is delivered digitally, there are still two very exciting events taking place on Larrakia Country. By Tierney Seccull First Nations textiles and fashion cultivate...
Adaptable Art
Celebrating thousands of years of creativity and cultural practice, the annual Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) shines a spotlight on Indigenous art, firmly placing it in its rightful place, front...
Colours of Country
Emma Lupin knows tropical plants. Having studied plantsmanship in Scotland, she came to the NT 13 years ago and fell in love with our unique flora and surrounds. In her...
Merrepen Arts
Mermaids appear in many of the works at Merrepen Arts centre in Nauiyu (Daly River), 220 km south of Darwin. Walk into the centre and ask Ngeni’g Wummiri artist Kieren...
Do I Seduce You?
Throw back to February last year, and queer Darwin artist Tarzan JungleQueen was hitting the track to Alice Springs, successfully selected for the Travelling Artist Residency at Watch This Space...
You Are Here
This provocative exhibition has truth-telling at its core as artivist, Therese Ritchie, factually examines Australia’s frontier wars and the massacre of Indigenous peoples, alongside the nation’s history of coal extraction...
Imagine
Local Artist Kristen Johnson – better known around the traps as Chiggy – draws inspiration from the colours and shapes of the Top End’s natural environment in her latest exhibition...
We Eat We Are
Spark NT IS an Artback NT initiative that responds to an identified gap in Northern Territory curatorial pathways. Each year, an independent or emerging curator is selected to develop an...
Intermingle
SINCE JULY LAST year, Darwin Community Arts (DCA) has run the Intermingle workshop program, organised by Georgia Glen and facilitated by a variety of Darwin artists. In line with DCA’s...
John Mawurndjul
“The old ways of doing things have changed into the new ways. The new generation does things differently. But me, I have two ways. I am the old and the...
Deadly Threads
HOUSE OF DARWIN has taken the Top End by storm, their bright tees and funky prints featuring traditional Aboriginal language popping up all over the place. But purchasing these goods...
Munupi Arts Pop Up Christmas Sale
If you’re after a unique gift for a special someone this Christmas, or would like to treat yourself, this month’s pop up from Munupi Arts boasts a wide selection of...
45th Katherine Prize
IN 1975, GENEROUS benefactors Jeanette and Brian Lambert founded the Katherine Prize, an art award to acknowledge and celebrate Territory artists. Held annually at Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts & Culture...
Night Gardens
LOCAL ARTIST MARITA ALBERS is known for vivid colours, birds and tropical foliage in her work, but becoming a serious artist was something that happened quite accidentally. “I started painting...
Jabiru Calling
Marrawuddi Gallery has been housed in the Bowali Visitor Centre for a number of years, providing a platform for almost 300 Indigenous artists from the Kakadu region to showcase their...
Bitumen & Dirt
This month, CDU Art Gallery showcases the career of Alice Springs artist Wayne Eager, with 85 works from private and public collections around the country exhibited together for the first...
Art & About: Drift
Anne McMaster has spent the last three months as Artist in Residence (AIR) at Tactile Arts’ Printmaking Studio. This month, her exhibition Drift opens. Anna Dowd caught up with her...
Salon Indigenous Arts Projects
Returning for a third year, complementing the Salon des Refusés, Salon Indigenous Art Projects presents six exhibitions by both emerging and established artists representing art centres across Australia. Salon des...
Art & About: Botanicals
Trans-disciplinary artist Matthew van Roden presents Botanicals as part of DF20 Homegrown – a video installation set to light up various part of town, curated by ACCOMPLICE’S Britt Guy. OTL...