Gallery sights in Northern Territory
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Araluen Centre
Alice Springs' art gallery, the Araluen Centre shows off an enviable collection of works spanning decades. Permanent exhibitions include the Albert Namatjira Gallery - the Territory's largest collection of the famous watercolourist's works - plus paintings by Albert's mentor Rex Battarbee and other artists from the Hermannsburg School. Other galleries exhibit acrylics from the central desert region, plus European-style oils and outdoor sculptures.
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Papunya Tula Artists
The Western Desert art movement began at Papunya Tula in 1971, and today this Aboriginal-owned gallery displays some of this most sought-after art. Papunya Tula works with around 120 artists, most painting at Kintore in the far west.
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Katherine Art Gallery
Has internet access.
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Red Sand
The highway continues through Ti Tree, where you'll find the Red Sand art gallery and café. The work comes mainly from Utopia, a community northeast of Alice Springs set up on traditional land reclaimed in 1977 from the former Utopia station. The community has nurtured some fine indigenous artists, particularly female painters.
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Nyinkka Nyunyu
The contemporary focus of the exhibitions in the Nyinkka Nyunyu gallery and museum make this one of the best cultural centres in the Centre. Excellent dioramas, prints and paintings produced by local artists show Aboriginal culture as a living culture, rather than a static one that stopped evolving after the boomerang. Dioramas depict the night patrol bus or the experience of working on local mines.
There are other displays of contemporary art and old artefacts - some recently returned by state museums. The attached shop stocks highly prized paintings, plus postcards and more.
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Julalikari Arts Centre
The artwork at Nyinkka Nyunyu - a gallery and museum in Tennant Creek - comes from the Julalikari Arts Centre, or 'Pink Palace' - a women's arts centre where the ladies come to produce their inimitable work; visitors are welcome.
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