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.
RAŊIPUY: The beach is breathing
Because beaches are alive.
They breathe, they yearn, they worry.
They want to hold you close.
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Past Exhibitions
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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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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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 Walpiri 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.