In November 2019 Papunya Tjupi Art Gallery presented their exhibition Tjupi Puli (Honey Ant Mountain). The name Tjupi Puli is an homage to the ancestral dreaming site that rests aside Papunya community sometimes referred to as Warumpi. The showpiece of the exhibition was the old …

Carbiene McDonald was born in Papunya in 1961, son of Snowy McDonald and as a young man, he travelled back to his father’s homelands and inherited his Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). Carbiene lives at Black Water Outstation, just outside of Papunya Community. Having only taken up …

Intimate opening for Carbiene McDonald Tjangala's sold out solo exhibition 'Petermann Ranges' at RAFT Artspace in Alice Springs/Mparntwe.

‘Kwatja Ngkama’ is the Western Arrernte translation for ‘Talking Water’. Talking Water is a new Australian Water Association/Water Services Association of Australia video series capturing and promoting Indigenous water knowledge from the past and present along with a …

The Yugul Mangi Rangers show us around Ngukurr and tell us some of the things visitors should know before they arrive.

Desart CEO Philip Watkins introduces the 2020 DesertMob Symposium program. Desart is the peak arts body for Central Australian Aboriginal Arts and Crafts centres and we have over 30 members.Our member art centres are community-based enterprises, owned and governed by …

The Tennant Creek Brio are currently exhibiting in Nirin 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Brio is an Italian word meaning courage, or liveliness of style or performance, which describes this collective. Drawing on multiple influences from various traditional and contemporary cultural …

Join us as we announce the winner of the annual Desart Photography Prize, part of Desart’s Art Worker Program that delivers opportunity for the development of technical skills and experimentation with new media.

Artists, Walter Jugadai, Jeffery Zimran, Kelly Dixon and Keturah Zimran and Art Centre Manager Dr. Chrischona Schmidt discuss the important work Ikuntji Artists have been engaged in with their Museum Project. The artists have been visiting national and international museum …

The western desert art movement began in the 1970’s in the Aboriginal community of Papunya, it is here where senior men painted murals on the school walls and the now famous Papunya Boards, this started a truly Australian Art Movement. The recently built men’s painting room …

Iltja Ntjarra Artists are currently showing in NIRIN – the 22nd Sydney Biennale with their exhibition Homeless on my Homeland. Artists Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Clara Inkamala and Mervyn Rubuntja discuss this powerful exhibition. ltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre is …

Marisa Maher is an emerging curator and assistant Manager of Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, based in Mparntwe Alice Springs and supports the “Hermannsburg School” style of watercolour artists who continue to paint in the tradition of their grandfather and relative, the …

Meet the senior ladies of Hermannsburg Potters. The Hermannsburg Potters are based in Western Aranda Country at Ntaria, they create vibrant handmade terracotta pots using hand coil and pinch technique These unique artworks encompass collective and individually lived histories of …

The BONNET SERIES is a Collaborative Art Project initiated by Arrernte families at SNAKE WELL (50kms north of Alice Springs) with visiting artists and supporters. Bonnet Series 1 (September 2019) involved 25 participants from 4 communities north of Alice Springs CENTRAL …

The BONNET SERIES is a Collaborative Art Project initiated by Arrernte families at SNAKE WELL (50kms north of Alice Springs) with visiting artists and supporters. Bonnet Series 1 (September 2019) involved 25 participants from 4 communities north of Alice Springs CENTRAL …

The BONNET SERIES is a Collaborative Art Project initiated by Arrernte families at SNAKE WELL (50kms north of Alice Springs) with visiting artists and supporters. Bonnet Series 1 (September 2019) involved 25 participants from 4 communities north of Alice Springs CENTRAL …

A robust discussion about the uncertain future that climate change poses for Central Australia and the community leaders that are stepping up in the face of what climate science shows is ahead. Speakers include Anne Mooney (Central Australian Aboriginal Congress), Michael …

This short video comes from Tangentyere's project "Men Can Get Support", focusing on men's ability to seek support and help in times or crisis and psychological distress.

Filmed at Mt Liebig Community

Unbroken Land Stories of connection to nature, place and belonging. Welcome to the second event in this three year community collaboration project. The vision for this years’ UNBROKEN LAND was to create art that is about a world we want to live in and not the one that …