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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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.

People Like Us

People Like Us captures universal aspects of the contemporary human condition in film, animation, digital and interactive art. In a diverse collection of recent new media works by Australian and international practitioners, the exhibition also reveals the many experimental technologies being deployed by artists as they comment on issues confronting us in the 21st century.

Colin Holt: a survey

Colin Holt: a survey showcases the four decades of artwork created by celebrated Darwin local Colin Holt, who is best known for his quirky and abstract paintings and prints.

Salon des Refusés 2017

For the second year at CDU Art Gallery, art lovers will have the opportunity to see artworks rejected from inclusion in the internationally renowned National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) at the Salon des Refusés 2017 exhibition

The Sculptures of Ataúro Island

The Sculptures of Ataúro Island presents both contemporary and historical sculptures from Ataúro Island, which is located 30 kilometres north of Dili, Timor-Leste.

13 October 2016 - 25 February 2017

Our feathered friends

Our feathered friends… the art of birds, is presented by the Charles Darwin University Art Collection and Art Gallery. It celebrates the diversity of Australian birdlife through the lens of artists’ depictions of our feathered friends.

Salon des Refusés 2016

The Salon des Refusés exhibition features art works that were entered into, but not selected for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).