April 2020
The Alice Prize 2020
A $30,000 national acquisitive contemporary art prize Presented by the Alice Springs Art Foundation View the exhibition online here The Alice Prize brings artworks by some of the most exciting and renowned contemporary artists in Australia to the Araluen Arts Centre. A prestigious biennial award, the Alice Prize is one of Australia’s longest running and most significant regional art prizes. Finalists are selected from hundreds of nationwide entries by an expert panel and the Alice Prize winner will be selected by judge Rhana Devenport ONZM, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. The winning…
Find out more »June 2020
Unbroken Land 2020 Free ‘Light The Water’ Bamboo Lantern Tutorial & Materials
As part of Incite Arts’ Unbroken Land 2020 program you are invited to join the fun in making your very own bamboo lantern. Materials and tutorial provided to you – for free! To order your materials, please contact admin@inciteya.org.au. Project running until July 17th 2020. Click the link below to the Light The Water tutorial…
Find out more »Linework an exhibition of paintings by Marina Strocchi
The Residency Alice Springs hosts an exhibition of paintings by Marina Strocchi. Presented by Heritage Alice Springs and sponsored by the Northern Territory Government. Some words about Linework from Marina I have painted for nearly decades, my inspiration has been a combination of landscape, imagination, and objects close at hand. I like to invent a structure using line, which I “take for a walk”, colour, texture, and shapes. I try to create a balanced, overall structure. I start with…
Find out more »July 2020
Tangentyere Artists Gallery – Open by Appointment
Tangentyere Artists Gallery is open by appointment, Monday to Friday 9 am-5 pm Please call 8951 4232. The Gallery is open on Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm We have adopted these measures to maintain appropriate visitor numbers as recommended under social distancing guidelines and appreciate your cooperation You can purchase online 24/7 at: https://www.towncampdesigns.org.au/ We also recommend visiting the 41st Alice Prize Exhibition, which has been extended until 3rd August at the Araluen Art Centre. Tangentyere Artists’ Doris Thomas, Sally…
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Travels on a Distant Star by Suzi Lyon
OPENING 6pm, Friday 7 August EXHIBITION 5—23 August We are 'survivors of immeasurable events', 'small wet miracles'. So writes poet and astronomer, Rebecca Elson. And so we travel, immeasurably distant, immeasurably mysterious. But there is a sensation that holds like iron, that we are the stars. So in this I am, my own brief minuscule miracle of magical gritty self, this is how I can be, of the stars, of this distant star. This work is made within this sensation,…
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Desert Mob 2020
Celebrating 30 Years Presented by Araluen Arts Centre and Desart In 2020, Desert Mob celebrates 30 years! Over that time, Desert Mob, has fostered and charted the incredible rise of Aboriginal art from the desert to its current eminent position as one of the most important art movements and forms of cultural expression in the world. Since its inception in 1991, Desert Mob has become an event of national significance, representing the most comprehensive survey of contemporary Aboriginal art by artists from Desart-member art centres from the desert regions and communities of…
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New York New Work: Marina Strocchi
Presented by Araluen Arts Centre New York New Work is the outcome of Marina Strocchi’s time in the United States and most notably an extended stay in Brooklyn where she undertook a studio practice for three months through the Arts NT Fellowship program. Renowned for working from surrounding natural environments, her home and still life, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Strocchi was faced with the built environment on an incredible scale. The sheer mass and density of life and hope, the walls of repetitive windows, which sometimes reflect and sometimes recede, …
Find out more »TQ20
Territory Quilts 2020 Presented by the Alice Springs Quilting Club Territory Quilts 2020 (TQ20) brings together the finest work by both amateur and professional quilters from across the Northern Territory, presented by the long established Alice Springs Quilting Club. Outstanding examples of quilting practice are acknowledged and awarded by a guest judge. Reflecting creativity and craftsmanship, hand and machine approaches, the traditional and experimental, TQ20 also operates as a place for the exchange of ideas and skills between members and those interested in the art of quilting. Mesmerising with…
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