
Art Gallery

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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Public Screening: MILKUM GA WALŊA pattern, camera, life
A special screening of the astonishing intellectual and creative legacy of Paul Gurrumuruwuy Wunungmurra

Curator's talk with Djon Mundine OAM FAHA
Join celebrated curator, writer, artist and activist, Djon Mundine OAM FAHA, as he takes us through this extraordinary exhibition, Three Echoes – Western Desert Art.
Past exhibitions

Yipapirraya arnuwujaputi... Tide going out, tide coming in…
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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.
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The CDU Art Gallery is wheelchair accessible.