Charles Darwin University Art Collection
Our Home: Charles Darwin University Art Collection – recent acquisitions
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Chayni Henry |
October 19 to November 3, 2006
Building 12, Casuarina campus, Charles Darwin University
This exhibition was presented by the Charles Darwin University Art Collection in association with the School of Creative Arts and Humanities.
Our Home was an exhibition of 73 works in the CDU Art Collection by 51 artists, for whom northern Australia is home for their art.
The Charles Darwin University Art Collection began as a ‘teaching collection’ of about 100 items, principally works on paper by contemporary Australian artists.
This founding collection was assembled by an Art Acquisitions Committee and the School of Fine Arts (then part of the Darwin Community College, followed by the Darwin Institute of Technology), between 1980 and 1989.
With the amalgamation of the Darwin Institute of Technology and the University College of the Northern Territory in 1989, to create the Northern Territory University (now CDU) another collection of more than 20 Indigenous art and material culture items was acquired in 1988 by a former Warden of the University College.
This collection was also absorbed into what became the Northern Territory University Art Collection, which today is the Charles Darwin University Art Collection.
Since 2004, the CDU Art Collection has continued to acquire, by donation or purchase, a wide range of work by established and emerging Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, with particular reference to art with a connection to the Northern Territory and adjoining regions, including Southeast Asia, in accordance with its art acquisition guidelines.
Our Home presented a wide range of art in various media, including work by CDU graduates, staff and other Northern Territory-based artists from the Top End and Central Australia.
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