Previous Exhibitions
Beyond the Self – Contemporary Portraiture from Asia
A National Portrait Gallery exhibition
24 November 2012 – 3 March 2013
This exhibition examines the representation of the self in current South and Southeast Asian art practice through the work of artists from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand.
Tour De Force: In Case Of Emergency Break Glass / Handle With Care
December 15 2012 – 10 March 2013
The groundbreaking exhibition Tour De Force highlights the work of eight progressive Australian artists who have made work that breaches the traditional ideas, methods and materials of glass making. Curated by the renowned glass rebel Megan Bottari, Tour De Force is not for the faint of heart, bringing a new focus to the medium of glass, particularly the conceptual branch of the practice.
Handle With Care is a selection of beautiful glass objects drawn from MAGNT’s diverse South East Asian, Territory History and Visual Arts collections, and are rarely seen by the public.
Off the Rack
A selection of personal favourites from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory collection by guest curator Tom Pauling, AO QC
6 October 2012 to 14 April 2013
Reconstructed Empires
7 July 2012 – 25 November 2012
Reconstructed Empires, a collaboration by Fiona Morrison and Anna Reynolds, is a project that began in 2011 in Huantie Art City at the 24Hr Art International Studio Residency in Beijing. Their brief encounter during the 2 month residency serves as a starting point for both artists who acknowledge the vast complexity and richness of Chinese culture and all it has to offer.Both artists live and practice in the Northern Territory.
Gone Fishin’ ... The Reel Top End story
17 March – 16 September 2012
Cleared and stained specimen of the Bluehead Demoiselle, Chrysiptera rollandi, Natural Science collection, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
‘Gone Fishin’...The Reel Top End story’ explores how fish and fishing tell the cultural, scientific and social stories of the Northern Territory.
Fishing has featured heavily in the lives of Territorians from Indigenous peoples, Macassan fishers, the first European explorers, and early Chinese settlers, to modern commercial operations, and the weekend warrior or recreational fishers. Displayed alongside Indigenous fishing technology are a multitude of colourful lures, jars of weird and wonderful scientific specimens, rock art, natural history art and modern depictions of fish and fishers.
‘Gone Fishin’ charts both the development of fishing and the culture that surrounds it whilst also exploring the future of fishing through sustainable fisheries management, Marine Rangers, conservation, ecology and taxonomy.
Display consisted of objects drawn from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory’s diverse collections, enhanced with important loans from recreational fishers, NT Fisheries Division and local artists.
Exhibition curated by Dr Michael Hammer, and produced by the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Art of Northern Territory Year 12 students,2011
Exit Art: contemporary youth
Exit Art showcases artwork produced in 2011 by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. Works are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity in a range of modes including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital presentations. Come along and vote for your favourite artwork to win the People's Choice Award.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Department of Education and Training exhibition.
Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu
25 November 2011 - 15 July 2012
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu featured captivating Aboriginal artworks by the Marika family from north-east Arnhem Land exploring the journey of the Djang’kawu ancestors.
The Marikas are highly regarded as talented artists, educationalists, cultural ambassadors, environmentalists, and activists. This exhibition centres upon the family’s most significant clan estate at Yalangbara, or Port Bradshaw, south of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land. The region is regarded as the original site of human and cultural origins associated with the Djang’kawu ancestors
View the 10-minute film featuring the opening of the Yalangbara exhibition on 24 November 2011.
Activate - Cultivate: a survey exhibition of Red Hand Print posters
08 October - 19 February 2012
Franck Gohier
Untitled
February 1999
Hemi ink on archival system card
PR 004433
Gift of Red Hand Prints, 2002
Image courtesy of Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
The exhibition Activate–Cultivate presents artworks made in Darwin about Darwin. The works, all drawn from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) permanent collection, consist of posters created between 1997 and 2002 by the local open-access printmaking studio Red Hand Prints.
A Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition
28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
11 August - 30 October 2011
Mr Donegan
Papa Tjukurpa and Pukara, WA, Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 180 x 200cm.
Winner Telstra Award and Telstra General Painting Award,
27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2010.
The 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award aims to showcase the very best of Australian Indigenous art from around the country.
The Award celebrates the important contribution made by Indigenous artists and helps to promote greater appreciation and understanding of the quality and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from rural and urban based Indigenous artists throughout Australia, working in traditional and contemporary media.
A Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory exhibition
Sponsored by Telstra
Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic Arnhem Land painting and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection
11 March - 11 September 2011
Mundukul Marawili
c. 1890 - c. 1950
Madarrap clan
Yirritja moiety
Mundukul (Snake) story: Yirwarra (fish trap) 1942, 175.3 x 103.3cm
The Donald Thomson Collection, the University of Melbourne and Museum Victoria. Photographer Rodney Start.
Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic: Arnhem Land paintings and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection showcases a selection of very fine and rare examples of Yolngu art collected by the anthropologist in the 1930s and 1940s.
The extraordinary bark paintings and painted objects in the exhibition illustrate the differences in painting style between central and eastern Arnhem land, and at the same time reveal the diversity of sacred designs or mardayin minytji painted by clans across the region. The works also reveal the clear distinctions between paintings by artists of the Yirritja and Dhuwa moieties.
The exhibition includes the earlist known works from this region. These paintings rendered in brillant ochre colours are on very large sheets of stringybark. They feature examples of body designs on a human and larger scale, and rare examples like the huge painting depicting one of the ancestral Djang'kawu Sisters in human form.
A focal point of the exhibition is the very first bark painting produced for Donald Thomson. It was painted by the legendary Djapu leader, Wonggu, at Caledon Bay in July 1935, and the brushes and palette he used are included in the exhibition.
A Museum Victoria touring exhibition.
Exit Art: contemporary youth art of Northern Territory Year 12 students,2010
26 Feb - 21 August 2011
Lindsay Bott
Light and shadow, Darwin High School
Charcoal on paper, 73.5 x 304 cm
Winner Minister's Choice Award 2010
Exit Art showcases artwork produced in 2010 by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. Works are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity in a range of modes including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital presentations. Come along and vote for your favourite artwork to win the People's Choice Award.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Department of Education and Training exhibition.
Click here to see 2010 Exit Art winners
It wasn’t all chop picnics
Images depicting life in the Top End for Defence Service personnel during WWII
Whilst in the Northern Territory many Defence service personnel recorded their experiences on camera, capturing images of their daily lives, their work, and their mates.
The Northern Territory Archives Service has received donations of these collections,
preserving and securing them as a valuable record of this pivotal time in the Territory’s history. In addition to the personal collections, the Northern Territory Archives Service has a vast collection of Oral History Interviews with former service personnel and civilians recording their experiences from this time.
Selected images and excerpts from oral histories held by the Northern Territory Archives Service are on exhibition at Lyons Cottage to commemorate this era in Territory History and the people who lived it.
Visit Lyons Cottage located at 74 The Esplanade Darwin Open 10am – 3pm daily.
Australian portraits: 1880 - 1960
9 April - 10 July 2011
Rupert Bunny
Femme au chapeau brun (Woman in a brown hat) c.1917
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Purchased 1976
This exhibition takes a fresh look at portraits from the National Gallery of Australia's collection, from the 1880's late colonial period to the mid 1960s and the move into abstraction. It features 54 portraits by 34 leading Australian painters, including Tom Roberts, E Phillips Fox, Hugh Ramsay, George W Lambert, Max Meldrum, Rupert Bunny, Violet Teague, Margaret Preston, Stella Bowen, Napier Waller, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Roy de Maistre, Russell Drysdale and john Brack.
Australian portraits 1880 - 1960 considers the international influences upon Australian portrait painting and the more distinctive turns that Australian portraiture has taken in its own right. Australian arists have often challenged the possibilities of portraiture, rejected the predictable and pushed boundaries in both their choice of subject and their painterly approach.
A National Gallery of Australia exhibition
Wildlife of Gondwana
4 December 2010 - 13 March 2011.
Dromornis stirtoni, Reconstruction of Central
Australian Miocene.
Artist: Peter Trusler
Visit the Wildlife of Gondwana and take a trip back in time to when giant seven meter lizards prowled Australia and the flesh eating Cryolohosaurus roamed Antarctica. This exhibition unearths the super continent Gondwana from 3.8 billion years ago to today.
Incorporating over 130 specimens from Australia, Antarctica and South America the Wildlife of Gondwana is based on research by world leading palaeontologists. The Wildlife of Gondwana presents a rare opportunity to understand more about the super continent Gondwana through its fossil records, including two of the three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Northern Territory.
Complementing Wildlife of Gondwana is the NT Herbarium display Living Gondwana: Cycads in the NT and a semi-permanent Cycad walk at the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens (GBDBG). Cycads are the ultimate living fossil, having seen the fall of the dinosaur and the rise of mammals over 250 million years.
This exhibition is supported with an education kit and family activities based in the Discovery Centre.
Wildlife of Gondwana is presented by the Monash Science Centre, Monash University
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of cultural material across Australia.
Living Gondwana: Cycads in the NT is an initiative of the Council of Australian Museum Directors, and is funded with assistance from the Science Connections Program within the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
The Bombing of Darwin and the loss of Don Isidro
19 February - 1 March 2011
A commemorative display to mark the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 was held at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) from 19 February 2011 to 1 March 2011.
On that day 69 years ago, Don Isidro was one of 10 ships bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft during the air raid on Darwin. Eight ships were lost in Darwin Harbour and the remaining two, including Don Isidro, were lost off Bathurst Island. The wreck site of Don Isidro lies in shallow water approximately 400 metres off Rinamatta Beach, on the western side of the island.
The small interpretative display contains artefacts recovered from the Don Isidro wreck site in the 1950s before the historical significance of the site was recognised.
AC/DC Australia's Family Jewels
11 December 2010 - 27 February 2011
AC/DC Australia's Family Jewels celebrates the history, music,
performance and creativity of one of the world's greatest rock 'n'
roll bands.
This first-ever exhibition about AC/DC explores the milestones of this phenomenal band from their formation and early Australian chart success to their explosion onto the international stage. The sudden death of lead singer Bon Scott in 1980, is followed by the next chapter in the group's history with a new lead singer, Brian Johnson, and the subsequent release of some of the biggest and most successful albums in rock 'n' roll history.
AC/DC Australia's Family Jewels features original material that has never been on public display including costumes, original instruments, hand-written letters, notebooks, lyrics, original contracts, stage props, rarely seen performance footage and much more.
AC/DC formed in 1973 as a high voltage rock 'n' roll and has over three decades become one of the top-selling bands in history. AC/CD enormous success continues to roll out to the world, through sell-out tours and album sales totalling more than 200 million worldwide.
In 1996 AC/DC performed in Darwin to 13,000 fans as part of their 'Ball Breaker' tour.
AC/DC Australia's Family Jewels is proudly presented by the Arts Centre Melbourne and the Western Australian Museum in association with AC/DC, Albert Music, Sony Music, and is generously supported by Visions of Australia.
Visions of Australia is an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
website: www.acdcfamilyjewels.com
Supercrocodilians: Darwin’s ultimate survival story
12 February 2009 - 16 January 2011
Two hundred years ago, one of the world’s greatest scientists was born, Charles Darwin. Famous for his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin reshaped the world’s perception on the origin of living organisms.
Supercrocodilians: Darwin’s ultimate survival story demonstrates Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through crocodilians. Supercrocodilians features an array of crocodilian specimens from ancient fossils to modern examples. Come face to face with one of the largest crocodilians known to have ever existed, which may have measured over 12 metres in length. See Australian fossil species from the last 100 million years, which show a diversity of aquatic forms as well as species apparently better adapted for a life on land.
Modern crocodilians, many from overseas, are included in the exhibition.
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A Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory exhibition
(Detail) MAGNT Curator, Dr Paul Horner with life size repulica skull of the extinct 'Supercroc', Sarcosuchus imperator.
27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Friday 13th August - 7th November 2010
Danie Mellor, From Rite to Ritual,
mixed media on paper
The 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award aims to showcase the very best of Australian INdigenous art from around the country.
The Award celebrates the important contribution made by Indigenous artists and helps to promote greater appreciation and understanding of the quality and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from rural and urban based Indigenous artists throughout Australia, working in traditional and contemporary media.
The opening celebration, held on the 13 August 2010 in the MAGNT grounds, is a free event, and includes presentation to the winning artists.
A Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory exhibition
Sponsored by Telstra
Behind the Wire
20 August – 5 September 2010
Benembenemdi by Dennis Rostron
Behind the Wire is an annual art exhibition held at Fannie Bay Goal. This exhibition showcases art by prisoners of Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre and by inmates at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre and the Darwin Correctional Centre.
Prisoners who request to participate in art education attend classes once a week for a few hours and work towards a Certificate in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft. The venue for this exhibition adds poignancy to this display of traditional Aboriginal painting, modern abstract painting and drawing, ceramics and textiles.
The exhibition is open daily from 10am - 3pm day at the Fannie Bay Gaol along East Point Road.
Behind the Wire exhibition is developed by Darwin Correctional Centre.
Colour Country: Art from Roper River
22 May - 11 July 2010
Ngukurr Landscape with Cycads 1997
synthetic polymer paint on canvas 143 x 134 cm
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Collection
Purchased through the Shell Development Australia Art
Acquisition Fund
Spectacular brightly coloured canvases mark Colour Country as a significant Indigenous art exhibition for 2010. With over 45 bold and brightly coloured works by major artists such as Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Djambu Barra Barra, Gertie Huddlestone, and Amy Jirwulurr Johnson, this exhibition highlights the diversity in Australian Indigenous art.
All artworks in Colour Country were painted in the Roper River region of the NT since 1987. Many of the canvases have not been exhibited or are rarely seen. Drawn from collections across Australia, Colour Country is an opportunity to see artists' innovation and experimentation highlighting their own distinct styles.
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australia cultural material across Australia.
Developed by Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.
Exit Art : Contemporary youth art of Northern Territory Year 12 students, 2009
1 April 2010 -11 July 2010
Kristie Langford, Loose Threads, Darwin High School,
Resin, Winner Minister's Choice Award.
Exit Art showcases artwork produced in 2009 by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. The most outstanding works are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity in a range of modes including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital presentations. Come along and vote for your favourite artwork to win the People’s Choice Award.
A Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory and Department of Education & Training exhibition
This company of brave men: the Gallipoli VCs
7 May - 20 June 2010
Gallipoli VC medals Awards: L-R
Lieutenant Frederick Tubb VC (AWM H06786), Private John Hamilton VC (AWM P01383 015), Lieutenant William Symons VC (AWM P029 39 002), Lance Corporal Leonard Keysor VC (AWM P029 39 007)
On 25 April 1915 Australians and New Zealanders, the ANZACs, were part of the historic landings on the Turkish Gallipoli peninsula. During the ill-fated eight month long campaign that followed, nine Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross.
To mark the 95th year of the Gallipoli campaign, the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory and the Australian War Memorial present all Gallipoli VC's awarded to Australians. These men displayed courage, endurance, initiative, discipline and mateship during this time. This became known as the 'ANZAC spirit'.
The Victoria Cross is the highest form of recognition that can be bestowed on a solider for remarkable and unselfish courage in the service of others. There is no greater single honour, award or accolade.
This company of brave men:the Gallipoli VCs is a special touring exhibition to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign. Presented by the Australian War Memorial, the exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Mr Kerry Stokes AC and Seven Network Limited.
Gallipoli VC medals Awards: L- R
Lance Corporal Albert Jacka VC (AWM A02868A), Second Lieutenant Hugo Thorssell VC (AWM A03688), Captain Alfred Shout VC MC (AWM G01028A), Corporal William Dunstan VC (AWM H06201), Corporal Alexander Burton VC (AWM H06785)
Images courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.
Threat of Invasion
12 February - 14 April 2010
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Webley & Scott No.1 Mark III signal pistol similar to that which would have been issued to 'D' Company, 43rd Battalion, in 1942 |
Webley & Scott No.1 Mark III signal pistol recovered in 1978 from one of the WW II wrecks in Darwin Harbour, sunk by Japanese aircraft on 19 February 1942 (Rec. 0741, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Collection) |
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory commemorates the bombing of Darwin in 1942 with a small display of artefacts. On exhibition for the first time are orders issued by Australian Army headquarters to the 43rd Battalion based in Darwin in preparation for an anticipated landing by Japanese forces. Although Japan's military commanders may have contemplated invading Australia, it was never a 'real' strategic objective. This, however, did not stop the wartime governement of John Curtin from using the Japanese threat and its psychological impact on the population as a propaganda tool to mobilise the people.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition
ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art
28 November 2009 - 2 May 2010
Treahna Hamm, Spirit Figure, 2007
Sedge, fabric, wire, gumnuts 200 x 62.1cm
From the quirky to the conventional ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art, developed by Artback NT, features a unique collection of innovative and contemporary forms from fibre artists' across Australia. ReCoil highlights a rich legacy of inter - cultural exchange showcasing the work of 12 Indigenous and 3 non - Indigenous artists' who have worked with their Aboriginal peers. The artists' common love of coiling has resulted in the creation of vibrant, intricate and often fantasy filled artworks.Presented by Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring and the Northern Territory's visual and performing arts touring agency.
The development and tour of the exhibition has been generously sponsored by Visions of Australia, an Australian government program supporting exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
Support has also been provided by the Northern Territory Government through the Department of Natural Resources, Environment the Arts and Sports, as well as by ERA and Rio Tinto.
Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art
Floor Talk
Dr Louise Hamby
| Date | Saturday April 10 2010 |
| Time | 11.00am |
| Where | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory Conacher St Fannie Bay |
Louise has a strong interest in historic and contemporary material culture from Arnhem Land, particularly with fibre items. She co-curated with Diana Young the landmark exhibition, Art on A String:Threaded Objects from the Central Desert and Arnhem Land. She was invited by artists from Injalak to curate, research and write about western Arnhem Land fibre. This resulted in the exhibition and book called Twined Together: Kunmadj Njalehnjaleken. Her long term involvement with the community of Gapuwiyak was the catalyst for her newest exhibition Women With Clever Hands which opens at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in September. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Australian National University working on an ARC Grant about Yolngu involvement with the formation of collections.
All welcome.
Beautiful Beasts
21 November 2009 - 14 March 2010
Peggy Napangardi Jones, Yellow Bird, Synthetic Polymer paint on canvas, Shell Development Australia Aboriginal Art Acquistion Fund, 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
Aly de Groot, Dish Pig, 2007, steel and wire, Museum & Art Gallery Collection.
Rob Brown, Burke + Wills (after Nolan), 2005, oil on board, Museum & Art Gallery Collection.
Drawn entirely from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory's permanent collection, Beautiful Beasts will surprise and delight all ages with a celebration of the animal world in art. From the bold to the bizarre, Beautiful Beasts features artworks that have rarely been on display at MAGNT featuring Indigenous and non - Indigenous Australian artists, Indonesian and Papua New Guinean artists. Beautiful Beasts creates a conversation not only between artworks but across cultures.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition
Behind the Wire
26 November - 6 December 2009
Tracy Atkins - The Things on my Mind,
acrylic on canvans, 80 x 60cm
Annual art exhibition at Fannie Bay Goal. This exhibition showcases art by prisoners of Darwin Correctional Centre and in 2009 also include works from Alice Springs Correctional Centre. Prisoners who request to participate in art education attend classes once a week for a few hours and work towards a Certificate in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft. The venue for this exhibition adds poignancy to this display of traditional Aboriginal painting, modern abstract painting and drawing, ceramics and textiles.
The exhibition is open daily from 10am - 3pm.
Behind the Wire exhibition is developed by Darwin Correctional Centre
26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Friday 14th August – Sunday 25th October 2009
| Makinti Napanangka, Untitled, synthetic polymer paint on linen, h 122 x w 137 cm, winner Telstra Award, 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2008 | |
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The 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award aims to showcase the very best of Australian Indigenous art from around the country. The Award celebrates the important contribution made by Indigenous artists and helps to promote greater appreciation and understanding of the quality and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from rural and urban based Indigenous artists throughout Australia, working in traditional and contemporary media. The opening night, held on Friday 14 August 2009 in the MAGNT grounds, is a free public event, and includes the announcement of the winning artists. A Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory exhibition Sponsored by Telstra | |
Exit Art : Contemporary youth art of Northern Territory Year 12 students, 2008
19 March 2009 -12 July 2009
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Exit Art showcases artwork produced in 2008 by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. The most outstanding works are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity in a range of modes including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital presentations. Come along and vote for your favourite artwork to win the People’s Choice Award. A Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory and Department of Education & Training exhibition | |
Husi Bei Ala Timor Sira Nia Liman – From the Hands of our Ancestors
THE ART AND CRAFT OF TIMOR-LESTE - Arte no artesantu Timor-Leste
22 November 2008 - 12 July 2009
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This international exhibition presents the traditional and contemporary art and crafts of Timor-Leste. The National Collection of Timor-Leste is complemented with works from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. This comprehensive, collaborative exhibition of the textiles, ceramics, wooden carvings and body adornment of Timor-Leste will give insights into the distinctive living cultures of this young nation.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition in partnership with the National Directorate of Culture, Timor-Leste (Detail) Timor-Leste, Ceremonial Mask, 20th Century, Hand-carved hardwood, 22 cm x 15.5 cm x 9 cm | |
A Touch of Science
From May 16 2008
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A Touch of Science is a colourful, hands-on exhibition, which encourages visitors to discover scientific principles relevant to their everyday life. You will be amused and entertained while exploring the 15 exhibits which encourage exploration, excite investigation and provide science-based challenges in an enjoyable and fun environment. Primarily aimed at later primary school students. A Touch of Science is also suitable for the young and young at heart, the concepts involved being universal. Come and enjoy engaging with this interactive exhibition! (Detail) Seeing to infinity module | |
Arafura Craft Exchange
Trajectory of Memories, Tradition and Modernity in Ceramics
12 July 2008 – 18 January 2009
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A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition Dona P Aristuta, Nuk Renggunuk, 2005 Mother ceramic elephant, 70 x 40 cm; child elephant 23 x 30 cm | |
Celebrating the Silver Jubilee
25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Exhibition dates: Friday 15 August - Sunday 26 October 2008
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This year the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. A virtual exhibition is available to view on the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award website. | |
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Behind the Wire
Annual Art Exhibition 2008 at Fannie Bay Gaol
Thursday 21 August – Sunday 7 September 2008
Behind the Wire is a showcase of Darwin Correctional Centre art students work. All artwork is anonymous.
The exhibition will showcase traditional Aboriginal painting, modern and abstract painting, drawing, Shibori (Japanese tie dye) dyed textiles with stencil printing, silk painting, ceramics, sculpture, design and painting of CD cases, and painting on story poles to create a large wind chime effect. Some artwork is for sale, with proceeds going to Victims of Crime.
Behind the Wire has been developed by Darwin Correctional Centre.
Fannie Bay Gaol is open daily from 10am–4pm.
The Flame in the North
Centenary Celebrations of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Northern and Central Australia 1908 - 2008
28 May – 12 October 2008
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n July 2008 the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart celebrate the centenary of their arrival in northern Australia. In July 1908 Sisters Eustille Sayers, Dominica O’Sullivan, Bertrand Sweeney, Kieran Doyle and Hyacinth Lenehan arrived in Darwin by boat as pioneers in Catholic education, health care and pastoral services throughout the Northern Territory and the Torres Strait Islands. This exhibition explores and celebrates their dedication to the spiritual, physical, educational and social well-being of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of northern Australia through their tireless work in some of the most inhospitable Australian landscapes as well as their vital contribution to the development of our modern northern centres. A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition in collaboration with the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Darwin |
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Windows on Australian Art - Focus Inspire / Expire
15 December 2007 – 20 July 2008
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Windows on Australian Art offers rotating selections from the MAGNT Visual Arts collection. Artists are inspired by people, landscape, nature, human endeavour, religion, science and inanimate forms. In 2007 the Windows on Australian Art exhibition features works by Australian artists including John Glover, Marie Tuck, Norman Lindsay, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, William Dobell, Bessie Davidson, Charles Blackman, Joy Hester, Fred Williams, Sandra Leveson, Edwin Tanner and Margaret Woodward. A Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Exhibition. (Detail) Asher Bilu, Graphite light, c.1970, synthetic polymer paint and synthetic resins on board, 182 x 183 cm, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Collection |
Exit Art 2007 - Contemporary Youth Art of the Northern Territory by Year 12 Students
16 February 2008 - 27 April 2008
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Exit Art showcases artwork produced by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. The most outstanding works are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity in a range of modes including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital presentations. Come along and vote for your favourite artwork to win the People’s Choice Award. (Detail) Ruby Kelly (Darwin High School), 2005 The Nancy Neiland Pro Model / Faux Model Series, 3 skateboard decks mounted on a wooden pallet, 97 x 130 cm, courtesy of the artist |
24th Telstra National Aboriginal& Torres Strait Islander Art Award
10 August – 18 November 2007
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The coveted 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is the premier national Indigenous event on the arts calendar, and offers one of the highest prizes for any art award in Australia. The Award is important for both established and emerging artists and attracts a broad range of artistic talent. Works are selected from almost 500 entries from all parts of Australia. Winners are announced and prizes presented at a free public opening event on Friday 10 August 2007. The evening provides entertainment from Indigenous traditional and contemporary performers in the tropical MAGNT grounds. A Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Exhibition. *(Detail) Ngoia Napaltjarri Pollard, Swamps west of Nyirripi, Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen, 150 x 210 cm, Winner Telstra Award, 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2006
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Australia Under Attack 1942-1943
16 February – 8 July 2007
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Australia under Attack 1942-1943 illustrates the nature of life in wartime Australia as the nation came together for the war effort. On display are many rare and fascinating objects, posters, photography, art, documents and ephemera that An Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition This Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition is funded by Saluting Their Service, the Federal Government’s commemorations program, honouring the contribution of Australia’s servicemen and women. | |
National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries
14 April – 11 June 2007
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Drawn from the magnificent collections of Australia’s National, State and Territory libraries, National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries contains a diverse range of iconic objects that tell the story of this nation’s history, folklore and identity. Manuscripts, maps, drawings, paintings and objects from the everyday to the exotic are certain to inspire, fascinate and educate visitors about the people, places and events that have shaped Australia. A Free Travelling Exhibition from Australia’s National, State and Territory Libraries |
Exit Art 2006 - Contemporary Youth Art of the Northern Territory by Year 12 Students
9 February – 22 April 2007
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Exit Art showcases artwork produced by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. The most outstanding works are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity in a range of modes including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and digital presentations. Come along and vote for your favourite artwork to win the People’s Choice Award. (Detail) Jedidah Dupe, Rust Never Sleeps, Darwin High School, 2005, Digital Photographs, 48 x 32cm, Winner, Minister’s Choice Award |
Earth Quest: Outer Space to Inner Earth
2 December 2006 – 25 March 2007
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Interactive exhibits bring to life a journey through four layers in Earth Quest: Outer Space to Inner Earth. Topics include archaeology, astronomy, genetics, meteorology and seismology. Children will learn about the solar system, volcanoes, air pressure and much more. Earth Quest: Outer Space to Inner Earth, Developed by Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of cultural material across Australia. | |
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Twined Together: Kunmadj Njalehnjaleken (“Everything about fibre”)
10 November 2006 – 21 January 2007
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Vibrant colours and combinations of techniques make this display of contemporary and historic fibre objects from western Arnhem Land a visual feast. Old and new works together tell stories of ceremonial and everyday life of the Kunwinjku people from Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) and its outstations, located in the sandstone escarpment known as the ‘stone country’. Twined Together: Kunmadj Njalehnjaleken is a Museum Victoria travelling exhibition. The exhibition was developed in partnership with Injalak Arts and Crafts Association. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of cultural material across Australia. | |
The Waterhole
17 June 2006 – 14 January 2007
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Stories come to life in The Waterhole, where original artworks and friezes tell the story of a diminishing waterhole and how this affects the animals on which it depends. Based on the latest book by award-winning children’s author Graeme Base, published by Penguin Books, The Waterhole will appeal to the young and the young at heart. An Ozlink Entertainment Travelling Exhibition presented in partnership with the Melbourne Museum. | |
Windows on Australian Art: Focus – The Sound of the Sky
29 July – 12 November 2006
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In Australia’s Northern Territory the weight of the earth is balanced by the impact of the sky. Whether in the Wet or the Dry the sky, like the land, imposes its presence and resonates in the art of artists who have been captured by it. Among them are Judy Cassab, Frank Hodgkinson, John Olsen, Judy Holding, Annie Franklin and Jacki Fleet. This exhibition presents images from MAGNT’s own collection. A MAGNT Exhibition *Annie Franklin Fire I: gestation 2003 Acrylic and oil on paper on wood 90.5 x 70.5 cm Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Collection. |
23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
11 August – 22 October 2006
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The coveted 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is the premier national Indigenous event on the arts calendar.The Award offers $56,000 in prize money, making it one of the highest prizes offered for any art award in Australia. The Award is an important showcase for both established and emerging artists and attracts a broad range of artistic talent. Works are selected from almost 500 entries from all parts of Australia. This survey exhibition showcases up-to-date developments in contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art. A diversity of themes, styles and media are represented, including paintings on bark, canvas and paper, sculpture, fibre, ceramics, glass, prints, photography and textiles. Winners are announced and prizes presented at a free public opening event on Friday 11 August 2006. The evening provides entertainment from Indigenous traditional and contemporary performers in a classic tropical sunset beachside setting in the MAGNT grounds. A MAGNT Exhibition Detail: Ngoia Napaltjarri Pollard Swamps west of Nyirripi Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen 150 x 210 cm Winner Telstra Award 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2006 | |
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The Sound of the Sky: the Northern Territory in Australian Art
8 April – 16 July 2006
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See masterpieces of Australian art gathered together for the first time, to tell the story of the Northern Territory through Western artists’ eyes. The Sound of the Sky presents the work of leading Australian artists who visited or settled in the Territory over the past 200 years. Developed by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the exhibition focuses on the Territory as a central force in the honing of Australian spirituality and identity. Darwin becomes a key destination in 2006, with the first and only showing in Australia of Thomas Baines’ Baines and Humphrey killing an alligator: on the Horseshoe Flats. On loan from the Royal Geographical Society London, this work forms the centrepiece of the 19th century display. Iconic works include Sidney Nolan’s Ayers Rock, Russell Drysdale’s Pukamani, Melville Island and John Olsen’s Fogg Dam. Also featured are works by Ian Fairweather, John Wolseley, Judy Cassab, Frank Hodgkinson, Wendy Stavrianos, John Firth-Smith, Judy Holding, Annie Franklin, Wayne Eager and Jacki Fleet. A MAGNT Exhibition | |
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Exit Art: Contemporary youth art of Northern Territory Year 12 students
10 February – 7 May 2006
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Now in its 12th year, Exit Art showcases artwork produced by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students. The most outstanding works produced are selected for their excellence, innovation and creativity. The broad range of media includes painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and multimedia. A MAGNT Exhibition. | |
The Policeman's Eye: the photography of Paul Foelsche 1870s - 1890s
21 Jan 2006 – 19 Mar 2006
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The Policeman's Eye: Paul Foelsche's Photography is an exhibition that will present the first comprehensive study of Paul Foelsche's photography. The exhibition will present Foelsche's visual record of the Northern Territory's capital, Darwin, as it took shape from the 1870's. In this exhibition, Inspector Paul Foelsche's remarkable series of Aboriginal portraits document the Larrakia and Woolna communities of colonial Darwin and serve as 'witness' to Foelsche's townscapes and landscape images which he produced to promote the Northern Territory's colonial potential. A South Australian Museum Touring Exhibition *Biliamuk Gapal a key broker between his Larrakia people and the South Australian colonists photographed in 1890 aged 34 (South Australian Museum) | |
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A Touch of Science
12 August 2005 - 22 January 2006
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A Touch of Science is a colourful, hands-on exhibition exploring scientific principles in a way that is enjoyable, fascinating and educational for everyone. Fifteen modules explore a variety of topics including genetics, inertia, magnetism, sound, light and physics. Try making a tune from the bottled music, see for yourself the effects of polaroids on light and use your logic on the corn, chicken and fox puzzle. Fun for all the family. A MAGNT Exhibition |
22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
12 August – 23 October 2005
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The 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is the premier national Indigenous event on the arts calendar. Initiated by the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 1984, today the Award provides $56,000 worth of prize money, making it one of the highest prizes offered for any art award in Australia. The Award attracts a broad range of artistic talent with upwards of 150 works selected for the exhibition out of approximately 500 entries from all parts of the country. This survey exhibition showcases up-to-date-developments in contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art, with its diversity of themes, styles and media, including paintings, sculpture, fibre, ceramics, glass, prints, photography and textiles. A MAGNT Exhibition |
Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005
14 May - 16 October 2005
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The Arafura Craft Exchange is an exciting new triennial exhibition of Indonesian and Australian contemporary craft practice. Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005 is first of the series of triennial exhibitions and features craftspeople whose practice stems from traditional craft methods to visual artists who utilise weaving in their work. Invited exhibitors are Anusapati, Caroline Rika Winata, Dani Marti, Fiona Gavino, Vicky Shukuroglou and Yvonne Koolmatrie. Their works are astonishingly diverse, from austere objects that resonate with traditional forms through to bold chunky painting's of woven urban plastic materials. A MAGNT Exhibition | |
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The Sojourners by Gregory Kwok Keung Leong
2 May - 18 August 2005
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Textile artist Greg Leong will produce a site-specific sculptural installation along the foreshore of the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. In the history of Chinese settlement in Australia, Darwin holds a very special position. Leong's installation of three large-scale sculptural works, rising from the foreshore, is evocative of Chinese travellers and possesses a strong and specific reference to the ceremonial banners and canopies of the Darwin Chinese Temple. The Sojourners Flyer (pdf 1Mb) A MAGNT Exhibition |
Exit Art: The Art of NT Year 12 students
4 March - 25 April 2005
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This year marks the 11th year of the eagerly anticipated Exit Art exhibition, a showcase of artwork produced by Northern Territory Year 12 students. Exit Art is a small sample of the diversity and talent that our schools produce each year. The quality and diversity of the artwork displayed in the exhibition breaks new ground demonstrating the dedication to excellence of our students, our teachers and our schools. The exhibition presents the most outstanding artwork produced by Year 12 visual art students and are selected by Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA) Art moderators for their excellence, innovation and creativity. Featured are a broad scope of art forms including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking and multimedia. A MAGNT Exhibition |
Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War
27 November 2004 - 28 March 2005
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A pilot in Turkey, a soldier in Germany, a nurse in Indonesia, a sailor in Japan: more than 34,000 Australians have endured captivity in wartime. Captivity was a time when lives were interrupted, hopes put away and relationships strained. For all of them, these were stolen years. This exhibition offers an opportunity to explore the stories told through objects from the Australian War Memorial collections. Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war offers an evocative and realistic insight into the Australian prisoner-of-war experience: harsh, brutal, sometimes tragic, but also moving and inspiring. An Australian War Memorial Touring Exhibition |
Windows on Australian art: landscape in me
25 September 2004 - 2 May 2005
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From Arthur Streeton to Fred Williams, Thomas Baines to John Olsen, Australian artists have found internal resonances in forest or desert, escarpment or plains, rivers or oceans. This exhibition looks at how the landscape in its many forms has inspired leading Australian artists over a century. It is another in the series Windows on Australian Art, which showcases selections from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory collection of Visual Art and Craft. A MAGNT Exhibition |
21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
14th August - 7th November 2004
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The 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is the premier national Indigenous event on the arts calendar. Initiated by the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 1984, today the 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award provides $56,000 worth of prize money, making it one of the highest prizes offered for any art award in Australia. The Award attracts a broad range of artistic talent. Up to 150 works are selected for the exhibition out of approximately 500 entries received from all parts of the country. This survey exhibition showcases up-to-date-developments in contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art, with its diversity of themes, styles and media, including paintings, sculpture, fibre, ceramics, glass, prints, photography and textiles. |
Windows on Australian art - focus: kids on track
15th May - 12th September 2004
| Another in the series Windows on Australian Art: Kids on Track showcases selections from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory collection of Visual Arts and Craft. This exhibition is designed to appeal to the young and the young at heart. Works by Margaret Preston, John Perceval, Charles Blackman, Sidney Nolan and Brett Whiteley feature together with those of Territory artists including Heather Riley, Jacki Fleet and Dan Murphy. |
Space: reaching out
14th February - 11th July 2004
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3, 2, 1 we have lift off! Grab your space suits and get ready to be propelled into the most exciting and action packed exhibition the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory has brought to Territory audiences in recent years. Space will take you and your family away from the world as we know it, and through its outstanding interactive displays will have you firing thrusters on a manoeuvering unit to rescue the disabled Hubble telescope, landing the space shuttle, remote controlling a replica Mars Rover and much, much more. You won't want to come down to earth after experiencing space. |
Contemporary Territory 2004 - four artists - the Territory years
21st February - 3rd May 2004
| Contemporary Territory is a triennial exhibition of art produced by leading contemporary artists with significant connections to the Northern Territory. Four Artists: The Territory Years features the work of Dadang Christanto, Annie Franklin, Pip McManus and Judy Watson, created during their time in the Territory over the past ten years. |