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The Sculptures of Ataúro Island will be presented by the Charles Darwin University Art Gallery in partnerships with the Timor-Leste State Secretariat of Art and Culture, and Timor Aid. The exhibition opens to the public on 16 March and continues until 15 July 2017.

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

Visitors can ride a bike through the streets of Sydney or travel through the human blood stream as part of a new interactive exhibition to open at the Charles Darwin University Art Gallery next month.


The touring exhibition People Like Us from the University of New South Wales captures universal aspects of the contemporary human condition in film, animation, digital and creative art.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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