• Read more about Salon des Refusés 2018

Charles Darwin University Art Gallery’s companion exhibition to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) will open to the public on Thursday, 9 August. 

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, NATSIAA.

CDU Art Gallery Acting Curator, Kellie Joswig said the Salon concept provides a showcase for art that was not chosen for the final NATSIAA exhibition.

• Read more about Still in my mind

Opening at CDU Art Gallery in November, 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.

• Read more about 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. 

• Read more about Reinvigorating the MECA Collection

Reinvigorating the MECA Collection draws from a heritage collection of significant Yolngu bark paintings, sculptural objects, hollow logs, and weavings, will open on 28 March at the CDU Art Gallery.

Reinvigorating the MECA Collection is a collaboration between CDU Art Collection and Art Gallery with Milingimbi Art and Culture, Bula’bula Arts, and CDU’s Yolngu Studies, bringing together a stunning selection of 64 works from the Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association (MECA) Collection, created in Arnhem Land in the 1970s. 

• Read more about Salon des Refusés 2019

Charles Darwin University Art Gallery’s companion exhibition to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) will open to the public on Thursday, 8 August. 

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, NATSIAA.

CDU Art Gallery Acting Curator, Kellie Joswig said the Salon concept provides a showcase for art that was not chosen for the final NATSIAA exhibition.

• Read more about TAKSU: the art of Bali

For the first time, Darwin audiences can view the diversity and splendour of Balinese art in an exhibition that will open to the public at Charles Darwin University (CDU) Art Gallery on Thursday, 24 October.

• Read more about Salon des Refusés 2020

The Charles Darwin University Art Gallery will celebrate five years of hosting the Salon des Refusés exhibition this month, marking the occasion with a tribute to past entries.

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, and will open on 5 August.

CDU Art Gallery Curator Kellie Joswig said the exhibition, which features art works not selected for NATSIAA, had become a must-see event on the Darwin visual arts calendar.

• Read more about 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.

The exhibition features 40 works acquired by the CDU Art Collection over the past 10 years.

Acting Curator Kellie Joswig said the PLACE exhibition was “delightfully eclectic” and was a testament to artists from Australia and Timor-Leste and their painted, sculptural, ceramic and multi-media works.

• Read more about Global impact of CDU researchers continues to grow

Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers continue to be among the most influential in the world, with 23 academics named in a prestigious list from Stanford University.

The Stanford University and Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists list, the most distinguished worldwide, based on bibliometric information from Elsevier’s Scopus database.

Twenty-three academics from CDU were ranked in the upper tier of influential researchers, up from last year’s total of 16 academics.

• Read more about Funding to help develop an Australian site for Indigenous Knowledges and Western Science Centre

Archaeologists from Charles Darwin University (CDU) and Flinders University will help lead the National Science Funding (NSF) Centre for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), a five-year, $30 million international NSF Science and Technology Centre based at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the USA in collaboration with international satellite centres in different countries.