TERRITORY CRAFT JEWELLERY
In association with Territory Craft a travelling exhibition from the Alice Springs Territory Craft Acquisition comprehensive education kit to facilitate the learning and enjoyment for young audiences featuring works by nationally renowned jewellers and craftspeople. The exhibition has a comprehensive education kit to facilitate the learning and enjoyment for a younger schools audience. Currently touring and available.
WOLFENSOHN GIFTS
Presented as a contribution through the Travelling Exhibitions program of the National Gallery of Australia. The Wolfensohn Gifts provides people with the opportunity to discover and handle some of the treasured objects from the national collection. This project will be presented in the Alice Springs and Barkly Regions in association with INCITE Youth Arts and the National Gallery of Australia. Available for touring mid 2007.
Centre Bounce
Acclaimed photographer Jesse Marlow has created an exhibition of images from Indigenous Australian Rules football matches held in remote communities across the Northern Territory. The exhibition is very popular and is a great add on to any sports or cultural event – the exhibition is designed so it can be hung on walls in a gallery or star pickets in a paddock. Available now for touring.
The Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Indigenous Arts Centre in Yirrkala has presented the inspiring Galuka Gallery as part of the Darwin Festival period for the past few years.
This incredible exhibition presented in a stylish and unique manner.
Speakers Corner
The café in the Northern Territory House of Parliament, the Speakers Café is an exhibition venue for works by regionally based Northern Territory artists. Alice Springs artist Ben Ward displayed from January to May 2006 and works by artists from the Jilalikari Indigenous Arts Centre in Tennant Creek will show through to the end of August 2006. For more information or to submit for consideration please contact the Alice Springs office on 08 89535941.
The café in the Northern Territory House of Parliament, the Speakers Café is an exhibition venue for works by regionally based Northern Territory artists. Alice Springs artist Ben Ward displayed from January to May 2006 and works by artists from the Jilalikari Indigenous Arts Centre in Tennant Creek will show through to the end of August 2006. For more information or to submit for consideration please contact the Alice Springs office on 08 89535941.
Blind Date
A collaboration between 24hr Art, the Darwin Visual Arts Association (Darwin), Watch This Space (Alice Springs) and Artback NT Arts Touring, BLIND DATE bought together visual artists from across the Northern Territory to have a “blind date” in Tennant Creek where artists were matched to work together to collaborate and produce a work for exhibiting. The results of this collaboration was successfully shown in Darwin, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs in 2005 and will be on display in Katherine in 2006.
Djambawa Marawili from Arnhem Land has been selected to exhibit works on bark, poles and sand sculptures at the prestigious Biennale of Sydney. Marawali is a leader in his community and also currently Chairperson of ANKAAA. In recognition of his esteem and in accordance with cultural protocols Artback NT Arts Touring is a part-sponsoring dancers from his community to attend the official opening event to dance his work. The Biennale of Sydney starts in June 2006.
DREAMING FESTIVAL
The Dreaming Festival now in it’s second year is billed as Australia’s International Indigenous Festival. With the support of the Indigenous Arts Development Unit of ArtsNT. Artback NT Arts Touring is travelling artists Gary Lee and an exhibition of his photographs, a photographic exhibition from the ANKAAA art centres, and paintings and weavings from the central desert community of Kintore. The Festival is on the first weekend in June 2006 at the Woodford Folk Festival site in southeast Queensland.
Image courtesy of Gary Lee.
ANKAAA in partnership with Artback NT Arts Touring presents Art, Country, Culture - a documentary style photographic exhibition that reflects the diversity of art styles, culture and country across the ANKAAA region. Darwin based photographer Peter Eve has been working with ANKAAA and the Art Centres on a number of projects from which these photographs have been selected. The exhibition will premiere at the Dreaming Festival in June then displayed at the NT Parliament House during the Darwin Festival.
Punttu is a collection of 16 prints from the new Nyinkka Nyunyu Cultural Centre in Tennant Creek. The exhibition has been designed to explain and share with the public Aboriginal (Warumungu) skin relationships - a fundamental social structure that determines all marriages and kinship associations.
The prints are a series of portraits that illustrate each skin name, produced with a unique Tennant Creek flavour. The portraits are bold and naïve in style and include the work of artists such as Peggy Nappangarti Jones, Flora Naljarri Holt, Michael Jampin Jones and Harold Jakkamarra Morrison.
Included as a part of the exhibition is a video narrated by the Warumungu Indigenous community that helps to provide further insight into skin relationships and family cultural values.
Punttuu – Family will be touring Regional Galleries throughout South Australia during 2006 and 2007. Available for touring 2008.
Image: R K Waistcoat.
