DARWIN FESTIVAL
August 5–26 2017 • OPENING NIGHT 6pm 10 August 2017
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Vimy Lane Parap, Darwin
Those Dreamings travelled like human beings and their spirit is still there in the country. We talk to them as our own relations and we believe their spirits come back into our families in the new generations that are born.
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Mussolini Harvey​
Artists
Jacky
Green
Therese
Ritchie
Seán
Kerins
ARTIST | CULTURAL WARRIOR (GARAWA)
ARTIST | PHOTOGRAPHER | GRAPHIC DESIGNER
ANTHROPOLOGIST | FELLOW, ANU
"I am a Garawa man. My country is in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria.
"I started painting so I can get my voice out. I want to show people what is happening to our country and to Aboriginal people. No one is listening to us. What we want. How we want to live. What we want in the future of our children. It's for these reascons that I started to paint. I want government to listen to Aboriginal people. I want people in the cities to know what's happening to us and our country."
Therese Ritchie is a resident Darwin artist, photographer and graphic designer whose experiences and insight into the political and social life of the Northern Territory continue to inspire her digital collages and her contribution to contemporary Australian art.
Seán has a background in applied anthropology and Indigenous policy. His research interests are community-based management of natural resources, common property rights, common property resource institutions, subsistence, political ecology, and community-based development.
Schedule
Open to the public Sat 5–Sat 26 August
at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
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Mon-Fri 10am-4pm
Sat 9am-2pm
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FREE Admission
EVENTS
THURSDAY
10 AUGUST
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
11&12 AUGUST
OPENING NIGHT 6pm
FLOOR TALKS 12pm-1pm
with Jacky Green, Therese Ritchie and Seán Kerins
Affiliations
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
ABOUT THIS VENUE:
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and the Northern Territory Government through Arts NT.
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Northern Centre for Contemporary Art is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
FULL ADDRESS:
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
Vimy La
Parap NT 0820
Australia
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Through painting, portrait photography and a historic timeline graphic, artists and activists Jacky Green (Borroloola) and Therese Ritchie (Darwin), and anthropologist Sean Kerins, endeavour to show the impact of European development projects on Indigenous Countries, lives and aspirations in the southwest Gulf Country of the Northern Territory.
Jacky Green, Red Country, 2017, 96 x 88cm, acrylic on canvas