Past Exhibitions

Wati Putinguru (The Man from the Bush)

Bush Lollies

Salon des Refusés

Northern Territory art awards

Celebratethe NT Art Awards, now in its second year, showcasing NT work across diverseartistic mediums.

Photo Synthesis

The biennial Photo Synthesis competition showcases Charles Darwin University's diverse research through striking images captured by academics in the field, lab, and studio. Now in its second year, this exhibition features expert-selected photographs that provide a vivid window into the breadth and impact of the university’s scientific and creative work.

Gapu: The Story of Printmaking at Djilpin Arts

HEAL 'Climate Impacts on Country'

Experience the power of Indigenous art in healing and climate dialogue at the HEAL 'Climate Impacts on Country' Pop Up Indigenous Art Exhibition.

Friday, 21 November from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm

Single Channel

Single Channel brings together key moving image works from 2000 to 2019 from the National Gallery collection. The selection traces the emergence of the moving image as a success story of contemporary art practice, considering notions of identity in powerful, unexpected and mesmerising ways.

Three Echoes - Western Desert Art

Curated by celebrated curator, writer, artist and activist, Djon Mundine OAM FAHA, Three Echoes – Western Desert Art showcases works by 57 acclaimed artists heralding from Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff), Papunya and Utopia Aboriginal communities in the Western Desert regions of the Northern Territory, Australia.

RAŊIPUY: The beach is breathing

Because beaches are alive.
They breathe, they yearn, they worry. 
They want to hold you close.

2 August - 11 October

MILKUM GA WALŊA

This exhibition shares a unique vision for co-creation honed over many years by Paul Gurrumuruwuy Wunungmurra (1955-2024), a Yolŋu performer, scholar and artist who lived with his close family in the outstation of Yalakun NT.

2 August - 11 October

Yipapirraya arnuwujaputi... Tide going out, tide coming in…

FROM THE GROUND UP

FROM THE GROUND UP explores the interconnection between the environment and visual arts practice in the Northern Territory. It investigates how contemporary art – and more broadly culture – in the Northern Territory is shaped by the ground upon which we
live.

Building the building

Building the building, a visually engaging display that traces the history of CDU over the past fifty years. The display is in the new Charles Darwin University city campus, Danala | Education and Community Precinct (ECP), in the heart of the city of Darwin.

Manburrba: Our story of printed cloth from Bábbarra Women’s Centre

Manburrba: our story of printed cloth from Bábbarra Women’s Centre celebrates how Maningrida women have mastered the design, lino-block and screen-printing mediums over almost four decades. It is a story of women’s empowerment and how they have harnessed contemporary textile art forms to transmit ancient stories and knowledge.