Charles Darwin University Art Collection
Our Home: Charles Darwin University Art Collection, recent acquisitions
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Chayni Henry, Our Home #1 2005, watercolour |
Presented by the Charles Darwin University Art Collection in association with the School of Creative Arts and Humanities
Showing: Thursday 19 October to Friday 3 November
Opening: Thursday 19 October 2006 at 6pm - Building 12, Casuarina Campus, Charles Darwin University
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, or by appointment - Anita Angel, Curator, Charles Darwin University Art Collection
Exhibition enquiries: 08 8946 6621 or 0413 473 599
General gallery enquiries: 08 8946 6013
The Charles Darwin University Art Collection began as a ‘teaching collection’ of approximately 100 items, principally works on paper by contemporary Australian artists, 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, another collection of more than 20 Indigenous art and material culture items, acquired in 1988 by a former Warden of the University College, was also absorbed into what became the Northern Territory University Art Collection.
Since 2004, the Charles Darwin University 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 South East Asia, in accordance with its art acquisition guidelines.
The Our Home exhibition, curated by Anita Angel, 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 Centre.
