Features
Australian Ceramics Triennale
Once every three years there is a huge national celebration of contemporary ceramics. It’s massive, it’s exciting and never-before has it been hosted in the NT. For its 16th edition...
Gumurr’manydji Manapanmirr Djäma
In 1972, the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) was developed as a co-operative to manage seven community stores in Arnhem Land. The largest independent Aboriginal corporation in the country...
AFL & the Heart of Tiwi
It’s become tradition for many to make the trek by land, air and sea to the Tiwi Islands for what is without a doubt the biggest annual celebration of Tiwi...
Soak Tumble Dry
THIS EXCITING POP-UP group exhibition features the work of three photographers and a sculptor, exploring the Top End’s unique Wet season to create fantastic imagery that interprets our urban tropical...
Kaleidoscope
SELF-TAUGHT DARWIN-BASED photographer Louise Denton has been snapping the natural beauty of the Territory’s landscape for almost 15 years, her images immortalised on Top End walls, showcased in coffee table...
The Alice Prize
This year, the work of 58 finalists selected from 531 applicants adorns the Araluen Arts Centre gallery for the 42nd Alice Prize. Some will grab your eye with boldness, others...
Make History with Off The Leash
Calling all Northern Territory-based visual artists! We’ve been working towards something very exciting in the background over the last couple of years and we’re proud to announce, from 2022 onwards...
46th Katherine Art Prize
AT THE KATHERINE Show in 1975, generous benefactors Jeanette and Brian Lambert founded the Katherine Art Prize, chipping in $500 for an art award to acknowledge and celebrate Territory artists...
2021 Portrait of a Senior Territorian Award
There’s no doubt about it – there are some interesting characters kicking around the Territory. The stories and personalities of our senior Territorians are as fascinating as they are diverse...
Salon Art Projects
This year Salon Art Projects returns with eight exhibitions that place Indigenous art front and centre. With an exciting program of group and individual exhibitions in galleries around town complementing...
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...
