CDU Art Collection and Art Gallery

Past Exhibitions

CDU Art Gallery presents a program of exhibitions in its state-of-the-art gallery located at the University’s Casuarina campus, Darwin as part of the University’s community engagement activity.

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17 November 2022 - 1 April 2023

Capturing Nature

Taken from the Australian Museum’s extensive archival collection of glass plate negatives, 67 large-format photographic prints showcase the scientific discoveries of Australian Museum scientists between the 1850s and 1890s, while also telling the story of the advent of photography in the young colony, less than 10 years after the birth of photography in Europe.

Shock & ore

With an authoritative and defiant hand, Shock & ore bursts forth a hype of guerrilla theatre. It calls on the heroes of the old world and new.

long water: fibre stories

Collectively, long water celebrates the stories of regeneration and continuation of important cultural traditions, and the strong women and vital water places that sustain them.

30 September 2021 - 26 June 2022

DRAWN

DRAWN from the Charles Darwin University Art Collection celebrates drawing as a means by which to slow down, observe the world and draw into being - with hand-made marks - that which we see, sense and experience.

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new presents a survey exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists – master bark painter John Mawurndjul AM. This landmark touring exhibition includes over 50 works, spanning forty years of the artist’s practice.

22 October 2020 - 20 February 2021

Bitumen & Dirt

Bitumen & Dirt – Wayne Eager: 30 Years in the Territory is a survey exhibition of paintings and prints by prominent Alice Springs-based landscape artist Wayne Eager. Featuring 78 works from public and private collections around Australia, including 13 from Charles Darwin University Art Collection, the exhibition charts Eager’s career since he first arrived in the Northern Territory in 1990.

Salon des Refusés 2020

The Salon des Refusés 2020 is the iconic companion event to the prestigious Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) has grown in prominence since its inception in 2013,

PLACE

PLACE is an exhibition that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Charles Darwin University Art Gallery and is a celebration of the gallery reopening after a forced COVID-19 closure.

TAKSU: the art of Bali

“Taksu: The Art of Bali – Recent Gifts to CDU Art Collection” profiles recent gifts including early 20th century sculpture, ceremonial textiles and painted temple cloths, performance masks, and shadow puppets and paintings, that demonstrate the inextricable links between Balinese ceremonial life and creativity.

Salon des Refusés 2019

Now in its fourth year at CDU and kicking off the Darwin Festival, the Salon des Refusés exhibition features art works that were entered but not selected for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).

Reinvigorating the MECA Collection

Reinvigorating the MECA Collection draws from a heritage collection of significant Yolngu bark paintings, sculptural objects, hollow logs, and weavings from the Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association (MECA) Collection, created in Arnhem Land in the 1970s.

1 November 2018 - 16 February 2019

Still in my mind

Still in my mind: Gurindji experience, location and visuality is an exhibition that considers the ongoing impact of the famous 1966 ‘Wave Hill Walk-off’, an event that saw 200 Aboriginal stockmen, station workers, and their families follow the lead of Gurindji elder Vincent Lingiari and strike in protest over poor wages and conditions.

Salon des Refusés 2018

Now in its third year at CDU and kicking off the Darwin Festival, the Salon des Refusés exhibition – or SALON18 - features art works that were entered into, but not selected for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

Yidumduma Bill Harney

Yidumduma Bill Harney: Bush Professor is an exciting retrospective celebrating the life work of Yidumduma Bill Harney, one of the last fully initiated men of the Wardaman people from the Northern Territory.

Past Exhibitions