Visual Arts - Touring 2012
SHRINE - Photography by Glenn Campbell
SHRINE includes 22 black and white photographs printed on vinyl banners 1M X approx 12M which documents some of the many memorials found along side Northern Territory roads and highways including: the Central Australian Finke Road, Kulgera, the Kintore district, the Tanami Rd, the Meerenie Loop around Hermannsburg, the Sandover Highway, the Stuart Highway, Katherine District, and the Victoria Highway up to the WA border (passing through Victoria River, Timber Creek).
Touring 2012
Image: J-Bird Stuart Highway
Glenn Campbell 2010
Digital Print on Aluminium
Paintings (top) Billy Benn Perrurle, Artetyerre, 2009 and (bottom) Lance James, Untitled, 2010
Photos courtesy of Bindi Inc. Mwerre Anthurre Artists
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Good Strong Powerful
In partnership with Arts Access Darwin, this touring exhibition will showcase the extraordinary works of established and emerging Indigenous artists with disabilities which have been produced through Art Centres in the Northern Territory.
Including artists from: Ngaruwanajirri on Bathurst (Tiwi) Island; Mwerre Anthurre based at Bindi Inc. in Alice Springs; and Julalikari Arts in Tennant Creek.
It is envisioned that this exhibition will work towards raising the profile of artists who too often are placed into a narrow ‘art therapy’ model yet their practice is often ground breaking, inclusive and celebrate diverse artistic talent.
Touring 2011-13
This exhibition is proudly sponsored by
Good Strong Powerful Tour Itinerary
Good Strong Powerful Education Kit - Lower Secondary
Good Strong Powerful Education Kit - Upper Secondary
Good Strong Powerful Education Kit - Teaching Notes
Good Strong Powerful Education Kit - Research Notes
Good Strong Powerful Education Kit - Labels
Good Strong Powerful Education Kit
Yulyurlu - Lorna Fencer Napurrula
Presented in partnership with Mimi Arts and Craft, Katherine
Curator: Margie West
Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrula is the first major survey exhibition of desert artist Yulyurlu (c1924-2006) that traces her development as a highly original artist during her twenty years of practice. This exhibition higlights her importance within the Lajamanu region and positions Yulyurlu within the broader framework of the central desert art movement. A prolific artist - she has been represented in many solo and group selling exhibitions as well as in three major exhibitions curated by The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.Yulyurlu is often likened to the famous Emily Kngwarreye because of her gestural and spontaneous reworking of the central desert idiom. They were contemporaries who independently developed in parallel and quite radical directions. Lorna Fencer, however, is not as well appreciated for her contribution, so an appraisal of the historical and artistic significance of her work is long overdue.
Touring August 2011 – January 2013
Catalogue Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla
edited by Margie West $34.95 Available for sale at: www.wakefieldpress.com.au
Yulyurlu - Exhibition opening at Chan in Darwin
Education Resources
Yulyurlu Educaton Kit - Lower Primary
Yulyurlu Educaton Kit - Lower Secondary
Yulyurlu Educaton Kit - Upper Secondary
Photo of Lorna Fencer Napurrurla by Peter Eve 2011
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
Djalkiri: we are standing on their names - Blue Mud Bay
This exquisite series of prints is the culmination of a vibrant and intensive cross-cultural exchange between five highly respected Yithuwa Madarrpa artists and four renowned artists from across Australia. In October 2009 artists Djambawa Marawili, Marrirra Marawili, Liyawaday Wirrpanda, Marrnyula Mununggurr and Mulkun Wirrpanda participated in a printmaking workshop with master printmaker Basil Hall at the community of Yilpara working alongside visiting artists Fiona Hall, John Wolseley, Jörg Schmeisser and Judy Watson. The 23 selected exhibition works resulting from this exchange capture essential aspects of country at Blue Mud Bay in Eastern Arnhem Land, recognised as one of the most pristine and culturally significant places in Australia.
The title, Djalkiri: we are standing on their names - Blue Mud Bay,is drawn from the words of Djambawa Marawili, Djalkiri literally means ‘footprint’, but when applied to Yolgnu law it takes on a more profound meaning, forming the ‘spiritual foundation of the world’. It is an acknowledgement of cultural inheritance based on understanding and mutual respect. It is about walking together in the footsteps of the ancestors.
At Yilpara, accompanied by ethno-biologist Glenn Wightman, anthropologist Howard Morphy and photographer Peter Eve, the artists made trips to country, visiting ancestral sites and sharing traditional and scientific knowledge. Around the campfire at night they discussed culture, history, sea rights and events, each of the artists responding to the experience in their own way.
Djambawa Marawili
Garrangali 2010, etching & screenprint
50 x 62 cm
Touring 2011-13
PDF Downloads
Djalkiri Education Kit - Lower Secondary
Djalkiri Education Kit - Upper Secondary
Djalkiri Education Kit - Project Notes
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Top: Camel, 2009 ; Stephanie Campbell, Titjikala Community, Crochet with needle felting.
Middle: Pantjitji McKenzie from Alice Springs demonstrates at the festival workshop.
Bottom: Visitors to the show, Araluen Cultural Precinct, July 2009.
Photographer: Dave Nixon.
The Beanie Festival - Colours of the Country II
Supported by the Alice Springs Beanie Festival, Arts NT and Artback NT.
As iconic Australian headwear, the beanie has been celebrated by the Alice Springs Beanie Festival since 1996. Attracting contributors from around Australia and overseas, beanie makers compete in events like “Australia’s Flashest Beanie.”
This exhibition was developed by Artback NT and the Alice Springs Beanie Festival as a celebration of a dynamic community arts event, as well as to share in the joy of creativity with beanie lovers everywhere. Colours of the Country 2 demonstrates the growth of the beanie as an artform over the years and the imagination, creativity and fine craftsmanship presented in each piece. It is a colourful exhibition encapsulating the whimsical essence of the Beanie Festival. The collection also highlights the works produced by Indigenous artists from the Central Desert region who are regular collaborators in this cross cultural event. An exhibition embraced by a broad cross section of the community, the collection will inspire audiences to laugh, don crazy headwear and knit.
| PDF Downloads |
| Education Kit Part 1 |
| Education Kit Part 2 |
| Beanie Education Sheet |
Touring Itinerary for 2010 - 2012 is now in progress. If you would like to host this exhibition, please contact us.
Northern Impressions - A Celebration of Contemporary Printmaking
Northern Impressions is a vibrant celebration of Australian contemporary fine art prints, presented by Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring, in conjunction with Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University.
Eubena Nampitjin
Midjul, 2007
etching
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo, WA
Minnie Lumai
Yab-yab-gnerni-gnim, 2008
etching, aquatint
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, WA
Northern Impressions takes its audience on a rich visual journey through the Australian landscape and into Aboriginal ‘country’, where the intrinsic connection that the exhibiting artists have to land is given powerful visual form through the medium of printmaking. The exhibition celebrates the highlights of recent artistic collaborations between some of Australia’s most talented artists and professional printmakers working at Northern Editions at Charles Darwin University.
Northern Impressions showcases 53 limited edition prints by artists from across the Top End, Central Australia, Mornington and Bentinck Islands and Kimberley regions and reveals the beauty and diversity of artistic expression in these regions, each with their own distinct visual language. Produced with Northern Editions in Darwin since 2004, this selection of the printmaking studio’s finest prints will challenge and delight audience perceptions of the printmaking medium, displaying its limitless potential for collaborative virtuosity, technical excellence and luminous colour.
An iconic Northern Territory art institution, Northern Editions is well known locally and nationally for the limited edition fine art prints it produces. The Northern Editions team of printmakers have been collaborating with Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to produce fine art prints since 1993, with the printmaking workshops they hold often taking place in remote communities as well as at the Darwin studio. Together, printmakers and artists have collaborated to create prints that celebrate the strength, beauty and diversity of printmaking in northern Australia.
Touring 2011-13
Northern Impressions Tour Itinerary
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PDF Downloads
Northern Impressions Catalogue
Wall text - Charles Darwin University Northern Editions background
Wall text - Northern Impressions collection
Wall text - The Making of Fine Art Prints