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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...
Taking Territory to the Globe
Supporting Indigenous owned Art Centres is what the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) is all about. A silver lining during the global pandemic means the world has access – for...
Save the Date, and Celebrate
INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED AS a world-class event, the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) has announced its intentions to move online in 2020, with a ground-breaking new ‘virtual fair’ format to be...
Art & About: POLITIKANT
POLITIKANT IS THE provocative new exhibition showing at Darwin Visual Arts – a creative response from an ensemble of Top End artists, who want to put art front and centre...
Renew Jabiru
Drive into Jabiru township, the gateway to Kakadu, and it’s impossible to miss the huge, colour-filled mural wrapping itself around the sides of what used to be the bakery. It’s...
A Hypothetical Darwin
My creative in residence at the NT Archives started with the intention of looking at plans envisioned for Darwin that never happened. I then used these past decisions – or...
PRESSplay
AMELIA LUSCOMBE AND JOCELYN TRIBE open their studio doors this month to share behind-the-scenes developments of their artist in residence at Tactile Arts. OTL caught up with them for a...
