Charles Darwin University Art Collection and Art Gallery

In Print: Charles Darwin University Art Collection

Comprising 167 works – including lithographs, etchings, drypoints and screenprints – drawn entirely from Charles Darwin University's permanent collection of art, In Print highlighted the power and beauty of graphic work by Indigenous, non-Indigenous and Southeast Asian artists working in, or inspired by Northern Australia, many of whom have worked under the auspices of CDU’s various printmaking workshops, studios and enterprises from 1993 to the present.  

Venturing across the Far North’s cities and townships, to some of its most remote communities, the exhibition drew together a 17-year history of CDU’s principal visual art and printmaking entities: the University Art Collection, the Art School (NTU Print Workshop, 1993-96; Northern Editions Printmaking Workshop, 1997-2002) and today’s Northern Editions Printmaking Studio.

Not Dead Yet: Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty – a retrospective exhibition

Not Dead Yet was a landmark retrospective exhibition for the Northern Territory, featuring 160 works by Darwin-based pioneer artists of “alternative printmaking”, Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty. The survey show comprised a comprehensive range of screenprints, posters, drawings, photographs, digital collage works and limited edition fine art prints and paintings, dating from 1969 (Mackinolty) and 1988 (Ritchie), through to the present day.

Nyini parlingari purrupakuluwunyi, amintiya kiyi nyingani awarra Jilamara (Looking back, looking forward in our Art)

This exhibition displayed more than 190 art works including paintings on paper, linen, canvas, limited edition prints, carvings, sculptures, tunga, spears and fighting sticks, drawn from the Tiwi Design Collection and the Charles Darwin University Art Collection.

Gifted: Recent donations of limited edition prints by 49 contemporary Australian artists

The first in a series of exhibitions that acknowledged the art of philanthropic benefaction: the gifting of two series of limited edition prints by contemporary Australian non-Indigenous artists to the CDU Art Collection by Franck Gohier.