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 …