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From Rubble to Resistance: the 2024 Members Exhibition 28 Nov- 21 Dec 2024 من الركام إلى المقاومة From Rubble to Resistance What do you do when all that is left is rubble? How do you rebuild, make art, be creative in the face of destruction? Whether it’s cyclones or war, rubble keeps accumulating, emotional and physical. This year we invite artists of all disciplines to examine the spectrum of human experience, give voice to your passions and challenge yourselves to approach your practice in a new way. Consider and explore resilience and resourcefulness, whether it’s about rebuilding after Cyclone Tracy, the aftermath of the vote for the Voice, the genocide in Gaza, or the Anthropocene we find ourselves in. We encourage you to make new work, reflect on the interpersonal and community relationships, give voice to what is important to you, and consider the value of creativity in the face of ruination. ● LAUNCH PARTY: Thursday 28 November, 6-8pm ● EXHIBITION DATES: 28 November – 21 December 2024 ● CLOSING PARTY & PRIZES: Saturday 21 Decembe, artist talks at 10am, prizes awarded midday. PRIZES: Cash prizes for first, second place. People’s choice will receive a gift voucher to Jackson’s Art Supplies. Judges will be announced shortly. Dont forget to vote in the People's Choice Award when you come in to the gallery! Curated by Zoë Slee Photography by Nicholas Gouldhurst and Paz Tassone ARTISTS: Jimmy Bamble Josh Barnes Dennis Bezzant Cath Bowdler Katie Bradley Kat Burrows Gaudêncio Cabral (Agau) João Campos Cabral (Jony) Tracey Campbell Harry Chapman Helen Christiansen Alex Clunies-Ross João Martinho Conoq (Jonkey) Celia Cox Aly de Groot Aldopho de Jesus (Ado) Ralph Eya Kate Fernyhough Karen Fletcher Keith Francis Otis Gold Margie Joy Goodluck Nicholas Gouldhurst Cathie Griffin Abbey Hall Ian Hance Lee Harrop Dave Henry IΩANNA Winsome Jobling David Kerr Manoli Lafazanis Rosemaree Ludlow Robert Mariotti Sonia Martignon Elizabeth Martin Sarah Martin Catherine Miles Aaron Moore Andrew Morgan Smith Sally Mumford Aengus Munro David Nicholls Maurice O'Riordan Nicole Ogilvie Clair Parkinson Eve Pawlik Valanti Patimos Nick Puklowsli Ned Roberts Christian Clare Robertson Lucinda Sargent Caleb Schatz Angie Soares Emma Stocker Kaye Strange Tina Trudgen Mo Van Egmond Hannah van der Wal Dimitrios Venetis Natalie Vidgen Deonisio Vilhas (Dede) Debbie Walter Christine Watson Cecily Willis Lourença Francisca Ximenes (Enssa) 1/0

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Pervasive Flesh Exhibition opening Thursday 18 September, 6-8pm Early-career artist Talitha Kennedy returns to Darwin for her solo exhibition, Pervasive Flesh, in Gallery 1, a site-specific sculptural installation which examines her own connection to the Territory and broader notions about place and belonging along with, in the artist’s words, ‘the fascination with the Other and failed altruism’. Kennedy works with materials and techniques of the built environment (including found demolition rubble and black leather) to challenge the nature of constructed realities. ‘This object based work illustrates’, she writes, ‘a psychological landscape of control and surrender, where the necessary death of things creates the new’. Kennedy is a Masters graduate (visual arts) from Charles Darwin University, Darwin. 1/0

Jenna Mayilema Lee: Of Smoke and Rain 5 August - 27 September 2025 Of Smoke and Rain marks the debut major solo exhibition of Jenna Mayilema Lee, a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and Karrajarri Saltwater woman. Spanning five years of practice, the exhibition brings together new and existing works that reflect Lee’s ongoing exploration of language, materiality, and the transformation of inherited histories. Lee explores the elemental forces that shape life in the tropical north, reflecting on the cyclical nature of the seasons, centering on moments of transformation, when the first rains break the build-up, and when life returns after fire. Anchored by a new installation that evokes shifts brought by these first rains, Of Smoke and Rain also presents a second body of work that speaks to renewal and regeneration after fire. Image Credit: Jenna Mayilema Lee, Archive of an Invasive Native, 2020, Dual channel video projection, Dimensions variable, animation by Sai Karlen 1/0

‘Welcome to Uluru’ 1/0

It's that time of year again. Watercolour palettes melt into one homogenous blob; viewfinders seem to be perpetually foggy; oil paintings simply refuse to dry. Left unchecked, spare rolls of canvas will grow their own mouldering masterpieces overnight. By mid-October, the 'L' in Plein Air may as well be silent (paintbrushes don't make good fly swats). But there is no relief to be found in the studio- it's become a sauna. A miniature tropical garden will begin to bloom under the drip-drip-dripping of the A/C, which shudders back to life as the louvres clack shut for the first time since June. There's no doubt about it. It's that time of year again. It's Too Bloody Hot! _______________________________________________________________________________________ Yep, the build-up is back ! And so is our annual Members' Show. ‘Too Bloody Hot’ invites artists of all disciplines to interpret how North Australia’s climate shapes our lives, landscapes, and culture. No matter the medium, this theme is your chance to capture the essence of a climate which is as much a part of our collective identity as it is our daily lives. From the scorching hot of the Red Centre to steamy humidity of the Top End, NCCA invites you to celebrate the resilience and resourcefulness that comes with living in a place where it's always, well, Too Bloody Hot! _______________________________________________________________________________________ HOW TO ENTER : STEP 1: Make sure you are a member. You can sign up or renew here . STEP 2: Get making! STEP 3: Submit your entry by downloading and filling out the form below and emailing it to the Assistant Curator, Kate Land (kate@nccart.com.au ), or visit the Centre and fill out a hard copy. STEP 4: Deliver your artwork to NCCA before 5pm on Friday 24 November. IMPORTANT DATES: Entries close: Friday 24 November, 5pm Launch Party: Thursday 30 November, 6pm Closing party and prizes: Saturday 16 December, midday PRIZES There will be a cash prize for first, second and third prize, and a Jacksons Art Supplies voucher for the winner of the people’s choice award. Guest judges TBA soon. SALES NCCA is a non-commercial art space. Our Members' Show is an exception, where we help artworks find new homes. Sales enquiries will be referred directly to the artist. NCCA does not take a commission. 0% commission for sold works = 100% return to our artists Interpreting the theme: Think beyond the temperature gauge! Your work could capture the rituals of cooling off, sub-cultures of the tropics, local stories of global warming, or the rhythm of living in between extremes of wet and dry. This is your opportunity to explore the relationship between climate, culture, and creativity. BECOME A MEMBER SUBMISSION FORM:

Members Show 2024 Fill out the entry form here Or download and fill out bellow Members Show Submission Form .docx Download DOCX • 15KB 1/0

Indonesia Artist Camp Retrospective ’Dharripa/Tariäpaŋ: They came here for the trepang’ is the first exhibition of its kind on the subject in Northern Territory. It includes newly commissioned work from Aboriginal and Indonesian artists as well as loans of recent and historical work from Indigenous Art Centres, public NT institutions and private collections. 1/0

Bungaree’s Farm Bungaree’s Farm is an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal audio, video, performance and installation art exploring the legacy of Bungaree – the first Aboriginal man to be granted land by the NSW Government. Developed to mark the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Bungaree’s Farm by Governor Macquarie on 31 January 1815, the exhibition is the result of a series of intensive residency workshops led by renowned Aboriginal curator Djon Mundine OAM in consultation with dramaturg Andrea James, and presented in association with Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney. Featuring Artists: Daniel Boyd, Karla Dickens, (BLAK) Douglas, Leah Flanagan, Amala Groom, Warwick Keen, Peter McKenzie, Djon Mundine, Caroline Oakley, Bjorn Stewart, Leanne Tobin, Jason Wing, Chantelle Woods, Sandy Woods. Bungaree – A Man in Space Jung is reported to observe; “it is indeed no small matter to know one’s guilt, and one’s evil, and certainly nothing to be gained by losing sight of one’s shadow. When we are conscious of our guilt we are in a more favourable position – we can at least hope to change and improve ourselves.” Bungaree was a man held in a personal, social, geographical, and historic space. A gallery can be described as a long performance space, open on one side, connecting two other spaces. As Shakespeare conveyed; we all perform our lives and move through ‘this’ space to another space. A human body is an object in space. People and objects in ‘that’ space are open to surveillance and judgment. In the space here are objects and expressions made; where the artists knew each other, and expressions that just look and sound like each other in form, content, character, context, concept, or history. The differences between inanimate objects and living beings are; their voices, their gaze, character, smell, mannerisms and gait; their body language, mental and physical expression. The workshops at the end of 2014 were about the process of bringing into being an extension of the artist’s practice in creating non-tangible expressions of Bungaree’s personality and social being, (moving image, projection, writing, ridicule and wit, in song and music, and performance, both individually and/or in group display). I wanted to shift the Aboriginal presence out of the ghetto of Redfern; to remind everyone, including ourselves, that Aboriginal people lived all over what is now called the Sydney basin – Aboriginal people are everywhere and Aboriginal people do everything. I asked artists to bring a number of ideas around the notion of non-tangible expression for the ‘company’ to workshop into being. We recorded as much of the process and resultant artwork to display with the initial exhibition in 2015. Characters create an activated space, a loaded, charged space. These works in a sense are memories, the detritus, the leftovers; a fetish of Bungaree’s life that are now a piece of art. Djon Mundine OAM Curator 1/0

Blak Power: 50 Years of First Nations Superheroes in Australian Art 12 August - 23 September 2023 To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first modern Aboriginal superhero, featured in the ABC series Basically Black (also the first TV program written and created by Indigenous Australians), NCCA presents Blak Power, a group exhibition bringing together more than a dozen First Nations artists that work with the theme of Blak superheroes. Notions of identity and supernatural forces in popular Blak culture are considered through comics, illustration, graffiti, painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, animation and photography. Covering five decades, Blak Power features both historical and contemporary works. In addition to early works of art and documents through loan agreements with Aboriginal owned and operated art centres, artists, galleries and museums, NCCA has commissioned new works from artists living in local, regional, remote as well as metropolitan areas. This project is supported by a Northern Territory Regional Arts grant and a Minor Community Projects grant from the Northern Territory Community Benefits Fund. Public Programs Exhibition Launch | Blak Power Saturday 12 August, 10am Join us at NCCA to celebrate the launch of Blak Power: 50 Years of First Nations Superheroes in Australian Art. Special guests to be announced soon. Artist Panel Sunday 13 August, 11am Hear from the artists behind Blak Power , including Molly Hunt, Jonathon Saunders and Luke pearson, with more to be announced. Artists Tony Albert Karla Dickens Layne Dhu-Dickie Dennis Golding Molly Hunt Emily Johnson Dylan Mooney Donovan Mota Ray Mudjandi Jonathon Saunders Kaylene Whiskey and featuring Redback Graphix Basically Black NEOMAD Iwantja Young Women’s Film Project PARTNERS.png PARTNERS.png 1/1

Queer Territory Queer Territory is the first significant survey exhibition of queer contemporary art practice in the NT, realised through the work of around 20 artists spanning from the 1990s to the present day. Expectant themes of sex and sexuality converge with broader and idiosyncratic concerns from environmentalism, spirituality, cultural affirmation, capitalism and the grotesque. The exhibition will also launch the publication Candid enigma, the artful adventures of Andrew Hau Ewing (dishevel books, Darwin). Represented artists include: Andrew Ewing, Therese Ritchie, Pip Hodge, Malcolm Smith, Tarzan JungleQueen, J-Bird, Matthew van Roden, Gary Lee, the Yangamini Collective, Ian Hance, Elliot Hughes, Pamela Lofts, Dino Hodge, Robert Ambrose Cole, Peter Maloney, Neil Emmerson, Nicola Miller Mungatopi and Kamahi Djordon King. 1/0

Eve and Eve 1/0