Art and About with creative director Isabel Lopes. By Tamara Howie The Darwin Botanic Gardens has become a haven for artists with a new creative studio and retail space opening...
A renowned Territory artist and veteran finalist of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) has won the top prize at this year’s competition. Gunybi Ganambarr has...
The winners of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) will be announced at a public event as the Awards celebrate 35 years. Museum and Art Gallery...
The 2018 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) will welcome a record number of Indigenous owned and operated art centres from around the country. This year 76 centres will take over...
The annual Salon des Refusés exhibition is set to look a little different this year. Co-organiser Matt Ward says the show will surprise regular viewers of the exhibition, now in...
Queer artist Matthew Van Roden had a strict religious upbringing – a factor that still emerges in his multi-disciplinary art practice. Van Roden is in the midst of a visual...
It's rare to see artists at work. I'm taking about mid-brush stroke, mid-decision. What colour, what form is needed in that dormant space on the canvas? By Holly McDonald While...
Pull out the palette and paintbrushes and get painting for this year’s Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award. The annual portrait competition will this year align with the 40th...
Six years ago gallery owners Matt Ward and Paul Johnstone joined forces to create Salon des Refusés – an exhibition to showcase the works rejected by the National Aboriginal and...
Artists from Darwin’s Free Space Studio (FSS) are taking over the Live Darwin Hub and exploring identity in their latest exhibition Who We Are. Darwin’s FSS was set up in...
Thom Buchanan is internationally renowned for his urban-meets-environmental streetscapes but the Adelaide artist will showcase a new body of work at Paul Johnstone Gallery in June. “The body of work...
Nomad Art Gallery has been a stalwart of the Parap arts community for the past 13 years but this month that journey draws to a close as owners Rose and...
Lisa Waup looks back on her time in Darwin during her residency at Accomplice. I first met Weniki Hensch three years ago through a dear mutual friend. We shared several...
Being an artist is all fun and games until the bills come in. But how do you make a living as an artist? A program of events organised by Darwin...
Filmmaker and animator Huni Bolliger has brought to life stories of historic prisoners during a six-month residency at the NT Archives. By Tamara Howie “I set myself the goal of...
Unpeeling Perception The story of adoption is a personal journey. It can take many years to unfold and many more to be told. Adopted, virtually at birth, from one culture...
An initiative of Arts NT, the Creative in Residence Program was launched in 2016 as a professional development opportunity for Northern Territory artists and creative practitioners. Produced in partnership with...
a thousand miles from everywhere. Franck Gohier’s bold artwork has made him a stalwart of the Darwin art scene, and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)...
Meaning ‘beautiful’, Mukulubena Baskets using ghost nets and bush dyed fabric by the Groote Eylandt Ghost Net Weavers will be displayed in Darwin for the first time this December. Every...
Colin Holt has become known for his abstract expressionist paintings, but the maverick artist refuses to be pigeonholed. Charles Darwin University (CDU) Art Gallery explores the diversity of Holt’s work...