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Made Manifest Spry presents a collection words produced with recycled materials inspired by the ‘wabi sabi’ aesthetic from Japanese culture that embraces the beauty in ‘imperfection’ and the ‘rawness’ of the organic. The works are suggestive of a personal journey, emerging from pop imagery and internalized scribbles – a new aesthetic that lies somewhere between heart and mind. 1/0

Wasted and Marginalized Depicting the car wreck in the landscape, Hance explores the periphery of Darwin and investigates the concepts of the marginal and the abject. Working on the outskirts of Darwin at Leanyer Swamp, his paintings critique societies’ use or misuse of wasteland and un-occupied space. Influenced by Fred Williams, he represents these saline wasteland areas, that have resisted suburban development, with flat slabs of colour and tones. Adopting Australian Gothic techniques, Hance creates a scatological appearance in his paintings that relate to the decomposing and rusty subjects. 1/0

Parcopresis Exhibition opening Thursday 18 September, 6-8pm ‘I wish that there was a way that I could completely prevent my body’s need to defecate’, writes Darwin-based artist Catherine McAvoy whose latest documentary project takes not only self-portraiture as its subject but self-portraiture through the lens of a public toilet, or more directly, the toilet bowl. ‘For a long time I was never able to crap in public toilets or other peoples’ toilets’, McAvoy writes, introducing her Parcopresis project (‘parcopresis’ being the term used when a person is unable to defecate unless they have a certain level of privacy) through which she has confronted her public toilet phobia through a series of photographs documenting her presence in, and use of public toilets in a wide range of locations – around Darwin, on planes, and elsewhere. Though she regards this documentation as ‘a futile attempt to be more comfortable with this bodily function’, it constitutes a confronting portrait nonetheless, with her series presented in the context of NCCA’s own public toilet and thus blurring the lines (or muddying the waters) between public toilet and contemporary art space. 1/0

We Eat We Are 1 May - 29 May 'We Eat We Are' celebrates food as a form of social sculpture that unites, nourishes and renews. The lives we live through food define our imaginary, making sense of our desires, ideals and practices as a society. Often hidden in plain sight, these are the spaces and time-valued traditions that gurgle in a pot or ripen in the sun. When we eat, we consume glocally: linking into the global and local food webs while revelling in our own sense of place. Catalogue Artists Christine Joy Barzaga, Bao Vi Truong, Siying Zhou, Janice Pungautiji, Michelle Woody, Kaye Brown, Raelene Lampuwatu, Mulkun Wirrpanda, Betty Wanapuyngu, Cindy Jinmarabynana, Lilian Joshua, Virginia Wilfred, Tracey Moffatt, Sarah Pirrie, Emma Lupin, Simon Cooper, Christine Joy Barzaga, 1/0

'We Eat We Are' 2021-04-30 'We Eat We Are' celebrates food as a form of social sculpture that unites, nourishes and renews. The lives we live through food define our imaginary, making sense of our desires, ideals and practices as a society. Often hidden in plain sight, these are the spaces and time-valued traditions that gurgle in a pot or ripen in the sun. When we eat, we consume glocally: linking into the global and local food webs while revelling in our own sense of place. 1/0

Murrŋiny: a story of metal from the east 7 August - 25 September Presented by Salon Art Projects in association with Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre Hit by shotguns, burnt by dry season fires, rusted by monsoonal rain – discarded signs litter Territory roadsides. The power of the rules and warnings they once shouted have faded like their glossy reflective paint. A group of seven Yolŋu artists from Yirrkala have come to rescue, recycle and rework these battered warriors in new ways. Murrŋiny is the Yolŋu word for steel. It is also the name by which this nation was known by its neighbours and the first Europeans who encountered them. This name references the shovel-nosed spears made here since pre-Cook times. With this exhibition old signs are new again. Curators Paul Johnstone and Matt Ward Artists Gunybi Ganambarr Ishmael Marika Wukun Wanambi Barayuwa Munuŋgurr Wurrandan Marawili Gan bilpil Maymuru Binygurr Wirrpanda Wanapati Yunupiŋu Press Katherine Times NT gallery pushes boundaries with help of cryptocurrency donation By Sarah Matthews September 6 2021 -8:18 am ABC New Arnhem Land art makes waves in debut exhibition By Kate Ashton and Peter Lacey Posted Sat 7 Aug 2021 at 8:48amSaturday 7 Aug 2021 at 8:48am, updated Mon 9 Aug 2021 at 9:03am White hot magazine Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia: Telling the sacred stories of Country in Murrŋiny: a story of metal from the east, Interview with Director, Petrit Abazi By MARY GAGLER , November 2021 1/0

Franca Barraclough: The Visitors 10 June - 23 June 2022 The Visitors is a powerfully evocative exhibition by long time Alice Springs based artist Franca Barraclough that grapples with what she refers to as the ‘dancing duality’ of living on Country. It is a conundrum that living in the desert throws into high relief but that is also in play across the nation - the challenge of reconciling the push and pull of people and place, of belonging and not belonging, of relating to a landscape that simultaneously repels and holds, emotionally and psychologically. Core to her work is the quest to make sense of where and how we live, wherever we live. Well known and much loved for her performance-based community engagement projects, here Barraclough turns her inimitable creative energy to the realisation of a series of monumental photographic images and immersive audio-visual experiences. Created over three years and enlisting countless community members in the staging and production, the resulting works combine humour with serious intent in a compelling and reflective way, drawing our attention to prescient global issues through a potent local prism. There is a fascination with the Central Desert as the mythologised spiritual centre of Australia. It is a place both alluring and alienating in the popular imagination and pivotal to a sense of national identity. Barraclough plays with some of these stereotypes and clichés and encourages us to reassess our connection to and impact on place. Catalogue Artist Talk Franca Barraclough Sunday 11 June, 11am Curators ArtBack NT Franca Barraclough Petrit Abazi Artist Franca Barraclough 1/0

Remake, Rework & Recycle 27 November – 18 December 2021 Members Exhibition Catalogue Curator Petrit Abazi Artists Marita ALBERS, Bill DAVIES , Amina McCONVELL, Alessandro BELLOMUNNO, Judith DURNFORD , Aengus MUNRO , Dennis BEZZANT, Katharina FEHRINGER, Mandy RAINS, Christian BÖK , GunybiGANAMBARR, RoswynRENNIE , Violet BOND, Lia GILL, Anna REYNOLDS , Max BOWDEN , Franck GOHIER, Nigel SENSE, Kate BUSSEY, David HENRY , Geoff SHARPLES, Yam CHEW OH, Jengis ISDIANTO, Andy SMITH , Gerald CLAPHAM, Winsome JOBLING, Kaye STRANGE , Leah CLARKE, Sadat LAOPE, Kerrie TAYLOR , Peter COSGRAVE, Glynis LEE, Ioanna THYMIANIDIS , Peter COULTER, Rosemaree Jane LUDLOW , Rachael WELLISCH , Victoria RV COX, Robert MARIOTTI, Marilyn WHELAN , Gaye COYNE, Sonia MARTIGNON , 1/0

Exhibition proposals EXHIBITION PROPOSALS We welcome proposals from individual artists, groups, collectives, curators, arts workers community organisations and ARI’s, and supports artists of any career stage to present new and proposed works. NCCA endeavours to create opportunities for local emerging and established artists’ work to be seen, and to enrich the cultural ecology of the NT by providing opportunities for interstate and international artists. Our premises comprise of a main gallery space and a screening room. Please email exhibition proposals to petrit@nccart.com.au Please include the following in your application: A one page proposal CV of all participating artists/curators Up to 10 supporting documents. Eg., letters of support, images, video files. Please make sure that all documents for the application are submitted within a singular PDF file. While we accept proposals on a rolling basis, they are only reviewed and assessed once a year, usually in early October. NCCA is proudly located on Larrakia Country, in Darwin, Northern Territory. We acknowledge the Larrakia people as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work, and extend our respect to Elders past, present and emerging, and to all First Nations peoples.

2020 Vision - Annual Members' Exhibition 24 November - 17 December 2022 Recuperated Material Monuments #18, 2020, Rachael Wellsich. NCCA's highly anticipated Annual Members' Show returns in 2022. This year's theme pays homage to NCCA’s beginnings as 24Hr Art. Make something using 24 hours- however you may interpret that. Whether its 24 hours total, within a 24-hour window, for 24 hours straight, only during the 24th hour of the day, or something else entirely. Help us celebrate our 30th year in Parap, with art around the clock. 1/0

Fecund 21 March 2018 Fertile Worlds FECUND: FERTILE WORLDS “Fecund aims to point out how deep the relationship between humans and the natural world is.” Announced as the inaugural SPARK NT Curator in September 2017, Katherine based curator Clare Armitage presents Fecund: Fertile Worlds. Showcasing contemporary artists from across the NT and Australia, Fecund is an exhibition that explores life, death and desire. It celebrates the intrinsically optimistic nature of growth. It evokes the natural landscape, reproductive cycles and sex, and acknowledges the resilience of life, the interconnectedness of living systems and the will to exist. Fecund brings together a diverse array of art forms to conjure a visceral experience of the world we inhabit. The SPARK Emerging NT Curator program is an Artback NT initiative that fosters critical and curatorial practice, facilitated in partnership with Araluen Arts Centre, NCCA, GYRAAC, Nyinkka Nyunyu and MAGNT. 1/0

Banksia and Feathertop Grass Banksia and Feathertop Grass is an artwork from a series of work collectively titled The Paper Series, for which Body hand-makes paper from found plant fibres and then films the paper over a time period of 24 hours. This process results in the video and its subject exhibited side-by-side as a memory of the artist’s process, and in line with Body’s overall work which seeks to memorialise the artist’s past-present body within creative process and action. Body is a Sydney-based (Darwin-bred) artist. A Master of Fine Arts graduate from the UNSW College of Fine Arts, she has been awarded studio residencies in Spain and Sydney, and is currently artist-in-residence at the Sydney TAFE Institute, St George School of Art. Body has exhibited her work at numerous commercial and public contemporary art galleries in Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne. Her work for NCCA’s Boxset is part of Dispatch, a national exchange project between nine window gallery spaces, and was sent from Branch3D in Sydney 1/0