Violet Bond explores how water, mud and red dirt come to life in the wet season through film, photography and installation....
Tag Archives: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
Dawn Beasley: Botanically Porcelain
'Botanically Porcelain' is a floor-based field of more than 1,000 hand-built porcelain sculptures that speaks to the simultaneous and conflicting qualities of nature – fragility and endurance....
Retribution: What Happens Next?
Showcasing recent works by eleven Northern Territory artists, Retribution: What happens next, asks: What fate awaits us for passing on less than what those before gave us?...
Nigel Sense: Visitor Centre
Nigel Sense replaces the faded wall prints, dioramas, and tacky souvenirs, often found in tourist information offices, with more dazzling suggestions of what a visitor’s centre could look like....
Murrŋiny: A story of metal from the east
Eight contemporary Yolngu artists from Yurrkala working with found metals and powered tools present miny’tji (clan designs) meticulously etched into the steel and aluminium surfaces of discarded metal sheets and road signs....
What’s On NEAR ME
What's On NEAR ME is a new series by Art Almanac presenting a curated selection of must-see exhibitions across Australia every week. This edition includes Queensland, NT, WA, SA and Tasmania....
Jacky Green and Therese Ritchie: Open Cut
‘Open Cut’ features photographic portraits by Therese Ritchie and paintings by Jacky Green representing Garawa voices from Borroloola, on the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory....
Justene Williams: The Curtain Breathed Deeply
In her largest and most ambitious undertaking to date, Justene Williams uses found objects and waste materials to construct theatrical ecosystems – hypnotising sets and performative video installations – creating a space of seduction, curiosity and complicit spectatorship....
Blak Douglas and Adam Geczy: The Most Stolen Race on Earth
‘The Most Stolen Race on Earth’ is an exhibition of 2D, 3D and screen-based works by Sydney-based duo Blak Douglas (Adam Hill) and Adam Geczy. Douglas and Geczy have been collaborating on artworks and shows for almost a decade as well as maintaining their own art...
Cruise Control: Indonesian-Top End Artists’ Camp Exhibition
In 2015 Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA) ran its second Artists’ Camp in the Top End for six Indonesian artists who spent time in a number of Top End and Central Desert locations....
Dress Me Featherless: The Philippines and the Post-Colonial
The Philippines is a place of rich ethnicities where the people have tenaciously struggled for some 380 years against colonial tyranny and neocolonial occupation....
Glenn Campbell: Two Fields
This exhibition is a photographic journey through two of the most mythological periods of Australian history: The Gallipoli Campaign and the frontier conflicts between Indigenous Australians and white settlers....