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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Where Lakes Once Had Water
Where Lakes Once Had Water contemplates how the Earth is experienced and understood through difference ontologies – ways of being, seeing, sensing, listening and thinking – that reverberate across art, Indigenous though, science, ancient and modern cultures, the non-human, and in between. - Sonia Leber and David Chesworth
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Gurindji freedom banners
Gurindji freedom banners in partnership with Karungkarni Arts and Culture, retell the story of the historic Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966. The 10 iconic banners on display tell the Gurindji account of the ‘walk-off’, which was led by Vincent Jurlama Lingiari AM with Gurindji, Ngarinyman, Mudburra, Bilinara and Warlpiri workers from Wave Hill Station, located in the Victoria River District on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert.
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The CDU Art Gallery is wheelchair accessible.