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25.01.2022 Congratulations to Hubert Pareroultja from Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, on winning the 2020 Wynne Prize, with his painting 'Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges, NT)'. Congratulations also to Nyunmiti Burton from Tjala Arts, on winning the 2020 Roberts Family Prize and Highly Commended in the Wynne Prize, with her painting 'Seven Sisters'.

25.01.2022 Acquired for the Araluen Arts Centre’s permanent collection, the vigorous and ornamental, nurturing and fierce work on paper ‘Walawulu ngunytju kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting)’ by Iluwanti Ken, for Tjala Arts and Desert Mob 2020. Earlier in 2020 Iluwanti won the prestigious NATSIAA works on paper award. Araluen already holds a stunning large-scale sculptural tjanpi work by Iluwanti (Patupiri Wiltja; Swallow’s nest), acquired from Tjanpi Desert Weavers’ Desert Mob ...works in 2017. With her Walawulu works, Iluwanti tells the story of mother eagles hunting for food and bringing it back to feed their babies. In all of these works, birds and their shelters are metaphors for Anangu motherhood, of the feeding, sheltering and protection they give their babies and young children. Iluwanti Ken, Walawulu ngunytju kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting), 2020, ink on 300gsm cotton rag paper, 152.5 x 120 cm Iluwanti Ken in the Tjala Arts studio. Image courtesy Tjala Arts.

22.01.2022 Monday is for Minyma Kutjara Arts Project’s ‘Tina meat truck’ In addition to works on canvas, artists of Minyma Kutjara, in Irrunytju (Wingellina) community have again upcycled found objects (car engine sumps) to create these sculptures for Desert Mob 2020. One of the three is Diane Dawson’s fabulously named ‘Tina meat truck’:... When I was younger all the families would go on holidays at Christmas time. We would travel to Kalgoorlie and Laverton for holidays in a truck we called the Tina meat truck. This was a big truck that could hold lots of people. We travelled through lots of different Country and when we stopped for a rest, the old people would sit down, while us younger ones would go out hunting for kuka (meat). We would look around for yirlpa (goanna) and kipara (bush turkey) which we cooked in the hot coals. Diane Dawson For purchase enquires, contact the Araluen Arts Centre Image credits: Diane Dawson, Tina Meat Truck, 2020, found objects & mixed media, 23.5 x 32.5 x 70 cm Maureen Tjalumi Nelson, Travelling on Country, 2020, found objects & mixed media, 29 x 34 x 70 cm Sally Ann Wipana Foster, Irmangka Irmangka, 2020, found objects & mixed media, 23.5 x 20 x 70 cm Installation view, Desert Mob 2020. Photo by Emma Louise Murray

21.01.2022 Visiting Desert Mob at the Araluen Arts Centre tomorrow? Yaye's Cafe will be open from 8am to 7pm on Friday only, so you can grab something before or after your visit to see the exhibition. Some areas of the cafe will be partly closed off in the morning to the general public, due to a private function for the artists of Desert Mob. We thank you for your understanding in advance.

21.01.2022 The Desert Mob MarketPlace kicks off at 9am ACST on the Desart website today! There are 32 Art Centres from across Central Australia participating in this year’s virtual event. The MarketPlace will run until Saturday 19 September. Make sure you check back during the week as new works are added by the Art Centres. https://desart.com.au/desert-mob/marketplace/... Images originally shared by Hermannsburg Potters, Mimili Maku Arts, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Ikuntji Artists and Papunya Tjupi Arts.

19.01.2022 Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, in front of his painting ‘Four Dreamings’ at the Desert Mob artists’ preview. Photo by Emma Louise Murray Part of the Papunya Tjupi Arts group of works for Desert Mob, Carbiene’s ‘Four Dreamings’ are four important sites, tjukurrpa inherited from his father, associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta. As a young man, Carbiene returned to these places and retraced the footsteps of his father. These memories s...tay with him vividly today. Carbiene started painting in 2018. In 2019 he won the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize for landscape, and coinciding with Desert Mob this year, his much anticipated second solo exhibition sold out in a matter of hours. You can listen to Carbiene talk about the importance of his art making and his country, and the experiences of his already phenomenal success, in the Desert Mob online Symposium film, thanks to Desart https://youtu.be/8iwiiSVybgA

18.01.2022 In an extraordinary and difficult year, Desert Mob 2020 reinforces the creativity, cultural strength and resilience of Aboriginal artists and their art centres. Thank you to everyone who has viewed the exhibition, here in the Araluen Galleries and digitally via our website. And thank you to the many who have purchased works, supporting artists in remote desert communities. The exhibition continues until October 25, and online at www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au. ... Desert Mob 2020 exhibition images by Emma Louise Murray.

16.01.2022 In today's Symposium video, meet the Tennant Creek Brio, an explosive artist collective whose work is currently showing as part of NIRIN - 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Artists Jimmy Frank and Joseph Williams talk about their work, the NIRIN experience, and the future.

16.01.2022 We’re still basking in the glow of the real Desert Mob 2020 artist’s preview and exhibition opening! Congratulations to all 177 exhibiting artists and heartfelt thanks to all artists and art centre staff who were able to join us, including Adrian Robertson (winner of this year's Telstra NATSIAA general painting award), Billy Tjampitjinpa Kenda, Jane Mervin and Charles Jangala Inkamala of Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists. Photo by Emma Louise Murray. The exhibition continues until October 25 here at Araluen Arts Centre (bookings to view the exhibition no longer required) and online at www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au. View the fantastic Desert Mob Symposium films and find the portal to the hugely successful online MarketPlace, which continues until 19 September, at our presenting partner Desart’s website www.desart.com.au.

16.01.2022 Desart are hosting an online Christmas Marketplace this weekend! Head to www.desart.com.au from 8am ACST to purchase and explore works from Ikuntji Artists, Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre, Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, Tangentyere Artists, Maruku Arts, Warakurna Artists, Warlukurlangu Artists, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Keringke Arts Santa Teresa, Papunya Tjupi Arts, Martumili Artists, Hermannsburg Potters, Tjarlirli Art, Barkly Regional Arts, Kaltjiti Arts, Ernabella Arts and more.

15.01.2022 Today is the last day of the Desert Mob Symposium and we have the announcement of the Desart Photography Prize for 2020. Congratulations to Liam Manjal Jampijimpa of Warlukurlangu Artists for taking out this year's top prize. The complete list of winners can be seen at the Desart website: https://desart.com.au/desert-mob/the-desert-mob-symposium/

14.01.2022 We would like to acknowledge the passing of Kumanjayi Ungwanaka a founding member of Hermannsburg Potters. For 30 years Kumanjayi created unique and engaging pots that highlighted her considered eye, knowledge of country and generosity. This was recently demonstrated with Artwa tharrala urrknga mpaaritjaarta (clay work made by two men), an important work exhibited at Desert Mob 2020 and acquired by Araluen. It is now the cornerstone of the recently opened Lineage & Legacy exhibition presented in the Albert Namatjira Gallery. We send our deepest condolences to Kumanjayi’s family, friends and colleagues.

13.01.2022 Thank you to Kieran Finnane from the Alice Springs News for this review of Desert Mob 2020.

13.01.2022 1 day to go until the Desert Mob 2020 Exhibition opens! The exhibition goes live at 9am ACST on the Araluen Arts Centre website: https://araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au/whats-on/desert-mob-2020... Head to the link to find out how you can purchase work from 29 Aboriginal Desart-member art centres from across the NT, SA and WA. Image: Marlene Rubuntja, Hubert Pareroultja and Mervyn Rubuntja. Photo by Rhett Hammerton.

13.01.2022 Tjawina Porter, from Tjarlirli Art in Tjukurla community, at the Desert Mob 2020 exhibition. A thrill to have artists and art centres here to see their works on the walls, in this difficult year. A special moment in Desert Mob’s long history. Tjawina’s painting holds the story of two women at the Tjarlirli rockhole, near Tjukurla, digging for water and cooking up the bush tucker they have collected. She paints the campsite, wiltchya (shelter) and fire, the nimpara (skirt) wor...n by women in the early days, spun from human hair and conditioned with animal fat and ochres, and her painting reflects the repeating pattern of the many many sandhills of this country. Tjawina paints her country, a place where her mother and grandmother lived a traditional nomadic life. Image 1: Tjawina Porter, photographed by Emma Louise Murray Image 2: Tjawina Porter, Tjarlirli Rockhole, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 176.5 x 145.5 cm For purchase enquiries, contact the Araluen Arts Centre

12.01.2022 The Greenbush Art Group artists working from the Alice Springs Correctional Centre are renowned for their sculptural artworks. Works made within the walls and within the limitations of found objects and upcycled materials, but with no creative limitations. Their art is innovative and often bizarre, full of humour, playfulness, insight and acute observation of the human and natural worlds. In the Desert Mob 2020 exhibition, William Keighran from Greenbush wows us with movemen...t and drama and power and struggle, created with nothing more than scrap metal. William Keighran, Eagle with snake, 2020, found objects, 47 x 141 x 112 cm

11.01.2022 In late 2019, as part of a trip to Fremantle, artists of Warlayirti Artists - Balgo visited the Berndt Museum, where they were shown the incredible Balgo archive, including amazing works on paper by the old people. This important historical connection inspired new experimentation working on paper, remembering how keenly the old people took to new mediums. These four stunning works for Desert Mob 2020 are part of that process. These works were produced using fabric ink, long a...go left over from silk dying techniques, adding further historical layers to the works. Follow Warlayirti Artists to see a return to the silk medium soon too! Image credits: Nungurrayi Loomoo, Yarlintjirri, 2020, ink on 300gsm watercolour paper, 76 x 56 cm Jane Gimme, Kunawarritji, 2020, ink on 300gsm watercolour paper, 76 x 56 cm Miriam Baadjo, Tjatjati, 2020, ink on 300gsm watercolour paper, 76 x 56 cm Joan (Eva) Nagomarra, Yurrututu, 2020, ink on 300gsm watercolour paper, 76 x 56 Warlayirti Artists. Installation view. Desert Mob 2020. For purchase enquiries, contact Araluen Arts Centre.

10.01.2022 Acquired by the Araluen Arts Centre Artwa tharrala urrknga mpaaritjaarta (Claywork made by Two Men) by Rahel Kngwarria Ungwanaka of Hermannsburg Potters Rahel Kngwarria Ungwanaka’s magnificent work for Desert Mob 2020 is full of historical and contemporary meaning. It references and depicts early searches for and use of clay by the people of Ntaria (Hermannsburg), pre-dating and pointing towards the establishment of Hermannsburg Potters, and featuring her own husband Nahasson...: Joseph Rontji and Nahasson Ungwanaka travelled southward by camel, down to Boggy Hole. They were looking for various kinds of coloured clay. Sometimes they found it in a cave, and sometimes at the river's edge. The men collected it. Maybe it was a yellow colour, and sometimes it was reddish. But during the week the two men worked in the garden. It was on Friday that they would go off to look for clay. They returned on Sunday afternoon. That's how the two men worked long ago. Mr Jaensch supported them in these first attempts to make pottery at Hermannsburg. This was how Hermannsburg people started to make claywork. Rontji Ungkwanaka tharra camel-ala ntakaarra-thapa lhitjaarta, Lhitharra-urna. Eratharra urrkngaka yunthakala. Erinha iltaarakala, intia kwaarnala paka, urlpaiya eterala paka, eratharra erinha kutjika. Eratharra urrknga arna ngerra paka, thathaka paka iltaaraka. Eratharra garden-ala urrkaaputjaarta. Kurunga Friday arltala eratharra unthaka, urrknga initjika. Pitjalpuka Sunday arltala-ntama. Laakinhanga eratharra urrkaaputjaarta Mr Jaensch-alela, urrknga mpaaritjika. Arlta nhanhala relha Ntaria-rinya ntjaarrala tjuntaka urrknga mpaaritjika.

10.01.2022 Today is the final day of the Desert Mob MarketPlace over on the Desart website. There are still lots of great works to purchase from art centres across Central Australia - visit www.desart.com.au today before it all finishes. Images courtesy of Warlayirti Artists - Balgo, Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre, Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, Kaltjiti Arts & Crafts and Maruku Arts.

09.01.2022 Rene Kulitja is Desert Mob royalty, having given a powerhouse opening of the event in 2018. Privileged to have her with us again this year, pictured with her painting ‘Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters)’, one of the works from Walkatjara Art at Uluru. Photo Emma Louise Murray.

09.01.2022 In a year of much concern, anxiety and flux, some beautiful certainty. It wouldn’t be a Desert Mob exhibition without Jane Mervin’s Tjulpu (birds). Jane, from Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists, with her painting ‘Tjulpu Walking’ and the group of works by Bindi, at the Desert Mob 2020 Artists’ Preview. Photo by Emma Louise Murray.

09.01.2022 Congratulations to Vincent Namatjira from Iwantja Arts, for winning this year’s Archibald Prize with his portrait of Adam Goodes, titled Stand strong for who you are. Vincent is the first Indigenous artist to win in the Archibald’s 99 year history.

09.01.2022 Antara. A hugely significant women’s ceremonial site near Mimili community, represented in paintings by many of the senior women at Mimili Maku Arts. Puna Yanima’s painting for Desert Mob 2020 is all beautiful loose, pastel fluidity, as it maps the kapi tjukula (rock holes), apu and murpu (rocks and mountains) of this sacred place. Antara, 2020, acrylic on linen, 152.5 x 121.5 cm... Puna Yanima painting at the Mimili Maku studio. Photograph by Meg Hansen and courtesy Mimili Maku Arts For purchase enquiries, contact Araluen Arts Centre

07.01.2022 The Desert Mob 2020 Exhibition is now live! https://araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au/exhibit/desert-mob-2020 Visit the website to see 169 artworks created by 177 artworks by 29 art centres.... If you would like to make a purchase, please call the Araluen Box Office on (08) 8951 1122 between 9am and 1pm ACST, Friday 11 September, or from 10am ACST, Saturday 12 September. Unfortunately, phone sales will not be available from 1pm ACST Friday 11 September until 10am ACST, Saturday 12 September.

06.01.2022 Araluen’s Desert Mob foyer feature installation this year is an installation of works, drawn from the Araluen Collection, that have been acquired from Desert Mob and speak to its history since inception back in 1991. These works embody the strength, evolution and continuing innovation of Aboriginal art from this region and also reflect upon Desert Mob’s role as an ongoing record of one of the most exciting and dynamic art movements in the world. Virginia Mpetyane Entata, Pang...olin, 1992, Terracotta and underglazes Acquired from Desert Mob 1992 Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 1996, Acrylic on linen Acquired from Desert Mob 1996 Kunmanara Giles, Warmurrungu, 2012, Acrylic on canvas Acquired from Desert Mob 2012 Reggie Jackson, Tjara (shield), 1997, Incised wood, ochre Acquired from Desert Mob 1997 Peggy Napangardi Jones, Pink bird, 2000, Acrylic on paper Acquired from Desert Mob 2000 Elaine Lane, Basket, 2000, Native grasses, raffia Acquired from Desert Mob 2000 Hazel Ungwanaka, Bush flowers my country, 2003, Acrylic on paper Acquired from Desert Mob 2003 Mervyn Rubuntja, West MacDonnell Ranges, 2005, Watercolour on board Acquired from Desert Mob 2005 Nora Wompi, Kunawarritji, 2009, Acrylic on linen Acquired from Desert Mob 2009 Kumantjayi Singer, Old trucks, 2010, Acrylic on canvas Acquired from Desert Mob 2010 Billy Tjampitjinpa Kenda, Truck and car Jay Creek, 2010, Acrylic on linen Acquired from Desert Mob 2010 Kunmanara Lewis, Tawal, 2012, Acrylic on canvas Acquired from Desert Mob 2012 Rhonda Sharpe, Alien, searching 2013 Soft sculptures Acquired from Desert Mob 2013 Rene Kulitja, Seven sisters, 2018, Acrylic on plywood Acquired from Desert Mob 2018 Mick Rictor, Untitled, 2018, Acrylic on canvas Acquired from Desert Mob 2018

05.01.2022 If you love Desert Mob, don't forget to register to see Parrtjima Australia - A Festival in Light, opening tonight at the Alice Springs Desert Park and the Todd Mall. This year's installations include works from Desart-member artists, including Jimmy Donegan from Ninuku Arts and Heather Watson from Minyma Kutjara Arts who are both seen in this year's Desert Mob Exhibition. https://www.parrtjimaaustralia.com.au

05.01.2022 Age is no barrier to artistic excellence. Martha McDonald Napaltjarri, from Papunya Tjupi Arts, is 80 years old and her painting for Desert Mob 2020 this year, Warlukuritji, is a stunning example of the beautiful work coming out of the Papunya Community. It articulates the great energy, dynamism and shifts still occurring in the Western desert art movement. We’re proud to announce the acquisition of this work for the Araluen Art Collection from Desert Mob 2020, allowing us to... tell that story in greater detail and complexity. Image credits: Martha McDonald Napaltjarri, Warlukuritji, 2020, acrylic on linen, 122 x 122 cm. Araluen Art Collection. Martha McDonald Napaltjarri in the studio, painting Warlukuritji. Images courtesy Papunya Tjupi Arts.

04.01.2022 Today is the day. The Desert Mob 2020 exhibition ends here at the Araluen Arts Centre at 4pm. It is your last opportunity to walk three galleries and millions of square kilometres of important country, culture and creativity, expressed through 169 works of art. It is also your last opportunity to purchase works from the 2020 exhibition via the online gallery, supporting artists and their art centres. www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au/exhibitions/desert-mob-2020... Dulcie Moneymoon, from Walkatjara Art, with her painting at the Desert Mob 2020 Artists’ Preview. Photo by Emma Louise Murray.

04.01.2022 It was a big logistical effort to get them to us due to Covid-19 complexities, but Tjungu Palya Arts’s large scale paintings by Beryl Jimmy, and together with Imitjala Pollard as the Watarru Collaboratve, have an even bigger presence in the galleries for Desert Mob 2020. These two big paintings have big significance and tell big stories. The Watarru Collaborative’s ‘Ilpili’ represents a creation story, whilst Beryl Jimmy paints a special place called Watarru:... Watarru is my home. Anangu tjuta (people) are moving around, moving between waterholes and creeks, and looking for food. They search in the daytime, walking slowly and patiently around my country, trusting that they will find something to bring back to the children who are waiting at camp. Image credits: Beryl Jimmy, Nyangatja Watarru, 2020, acrylic on linen, 177 x 195 cm Beryl Jimmy, image courtesy Tjungu Palya Imitjala Pollard, image courtesy Tjungu Palya Watarru Collaborative, Ilpili, 2020, acrylic on linen, 181.5 x 197.5 cm Tjungu Palya works, installation view, Desert Mob 2020. Image by Emma Louise Murray For purchase enquiries, contact Araluen Arts Centre