water tower series
Parap Water Tower
3 Wilkinson Street, Parap
Tip: Street Parking on Wilkinson St, Picnic space available
vortex
Naina Sen
Naina explores the intangible notions of being suspended between time and place. Her work is an expression of the longing and displacement that ebbs and flows, with being indefinitely separated from her family and her sense of home, through the pandemic.
Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is an award winning documentary filmmaker, creative producer and video installation/projection artist specialising in cross-cultural storytelling.
Wednesday 25/8 & Friday 27/8 7-10pm
Arntarnge
Noeleen McMillan, Millie Abbott, Beverley McMillan, Kerrah Minor, Tim McNamara (tangentyere artists)
Arntarnge was inspired by drawing of local central desert botanicals by Ewyenper Atwatye (Hidden Valley) artists from Tangentyere Artists, Noeleen McMillan, Millie Abbott, Beverley McMillan, Kerrah Minor and Tim McNamara. Working in collaborations with Matthew van Roden these illustrations come to life with the hands of the artists. creating a work that makes the audience question where the human ends and the flora begins.
Ewyenper Atwatye is the Central Arrernte place name for Hidden Valley, and the chosen name for the textile enterprise established by the community of Hidden Valley Town Camp in 2015. It is a satellite project of Tangentyere Artists.
Thursday 26/8 & Saturday 28/8 7-10pm
Rapid Creek Water Tower
11-21 Valder Cres, Rapid Creek.
Tip: Street Parking on Valder Cres, picnic space available
Gudangwa/This Area
Shaun Lee
Gudungwa/This Area reflects on Shaun’s connection to country through dreamtime stories of the Serpent his elders would share with him as a child. The serpent created all our rivers, creeks, floodplains, animals, colours and is our creator and being. Shaun Lee, Gwarkabah (Saltwater man) is a Larrakia, Wardaman and Karajarri contemporary freelance artist specialising in murals and logos using traditional and contemporary designs.
Shaun started painting as a young boy, learning from his large artistic family that includes his mother Danella Lee and his sister Mim Cole. Known by his artist name, Hafleg.
Wednesday 25/8 & Friday 27/8 7-10pm
Dijan Kaugel/This One Cowgirl
Jill Daniels & Dan Hartney (Ngukurr story projects)
The artwork Dijan Kaugel/This One Cowgirl is a series of paintings by Jill Daniels, animated by Dan Hartney. It celebrates the qualities of the cowgirl in the NT – her humour, determination and skill. Jill Daniels is a visual artist born in Ngukurr in 1959. Her country is Magalawa in Eastern Arnhem Land. Her languages are Roper Kriol, Ritharrŋu and Marḏarrpa.
At first, Jill liked to paint saltwater scenes. Jill now enjoys painting colourful landscapes with hills, trees and plains, where buffalo and cattle eat grass and drink from billabongs. She also paints pastoral themes such as stockwomen and stockmen mustering and at rodeos.
Jill also works in the mediums of lino printing, screenprinting and glasswork. Jill has written a popular children’s counting book, Counting our Country with animal names in Ritharrŋu language published by Magabala Books.
Thursday 26/8 & Saturday 28/8 7-10pm
Nightcliff Water Tower
3-5 Pandanus St, Nightcliff
Tip: Street Parking on Bauhinia St, picnic space available on oval opposite footpath
Mabbúlarr
Joy Garlbin & Josephine James (Bábbarra Women’s Centre)
Mabbúlarr tells the story of the turtle we call marláddja (green sea turtle) and the stingray we call marnandjúbba (cowtail stingray). The film is an abstracted story linking the traditional hunting method of the sea turtle to the ceremonial dance, MiÍddjarn. Artists Josephine James and her mother senior Kunibídji elder Joy Garlbin, traditional owner of Maningrida, work with Bábbarra Women's Centre in textile art to preserve stories linked with country, clan totems and Djang (ancestral creator beings), they collaborated with filmmaker Naina Sen for this work.
Bábbarra Women’s Centre is located in Maningrida, homeland of the Kunibídji people in the West Arnhem Land of Northern Territory. Bábbarra is one of the oldest continuously operating indigenous textile enterprise in Australia. A space run by women, for women. A diverse range of cultural stories from 8 languages, 25 artists and over 80 design stories.
Working with textiles has allowed artists to convey and preserve traditional themes linked with country, clan totems and Djang (ancestral creator beings).
Wednesday 25/8 & Friday 27/8 7-10pm
Le Patha, A Life of Community
Jerry Biting & Dallas Magarra (Thamarrurr Youth Indigenous Corporation Wadeye)
Combining old and new footage from the Thamarrurr region, this educational work illustrates an inter-clan tribute to country, while highlighting seasonal change. The wildlife and plants shape the totemic Ngakumarl (Dreaming) of the different areas which gives meaning to the traditional landowners. Jerry Bitting and Dallas Mugarra are the owners of Darrikardu Numi Media (meaning media for one people).
Jerry while living in Bright, Victoria and undergoing the leadership program through Thamarrurr Youth Indigenous Corporation when he realised and nurtured his passion for media through being exposed to different developmental experiences. He currently lives and works in Wadeye for Thamarrurr Youth Indigenous Corporation and Thamarrurr Development Corporation as a communications and information officer.
Dallas currently lives in Bright Victoria and is the mastermind behind Captain Sanitiser: a superhero who fights COVID-19 and spreads the COVID-safety messages in English and Murrinhpatha (the most commonly used language in the Thamarrurr region). Through his experiences living in two cultural worlds, he has grown a passion for teaching people about cultural-diversity and finding different ways to break barriers between cultures through a variety of media outlets and projects.
Thursday 26/8 & Saturday 28/8 7-10pm
Moil Water Tower
28-10 Parer Dr, Moil
Tip: Street Parking on Parer Drive, picnic space available
Fingerspitzengefühl
Matthew van Roden
Fingerspitzengefühl (finger-shpits-zenga-fuel) is a German word literally meaning “finger tips feelings”. It is used to describe a certain situational awareness or intuition, like the ability to read a room. It also describes a certain intricate sensitivity to the tools of one’s trade; knowing through small vibrations and other tactile feedback. In this work, van Roden explores sensitivity and touch, searching for a more haptic understanding of surface, texture and text.
Matthew van Roden is an artist of the in-between. Their research involves interrogating the space between apparent binaries as locations for queer creative praxis. Material/discursive; inside/outside; male/female; analogue/digital: van Roden explores the gaps and slippages between these seemingly oppositional points. Their work is made manifest in the overlap of boundaries; on ambiguous surfaces and thresholds of meaning.
THURSDAY 26/8 to Saturday 28/8 7-10pm
CDU Water Tower
Blue F University Drive, Casuarina
Tip: Car Parking in Blue F, picnic space available.
Maria Ioannou
Palimpsest
Virgil Cameron, Janine Cock , Magenta Dawid-Rose, Nathan Geard, Litza Hall, Casey Hurley, Maria Ioannou, Panapol Khwamman and Alex May.
Charles Darwin University first year and VET Creative and Digital Arts Students respond to the theme of Palimpsest. Telling stories of layers, erasures and new connections through digital and stop-frame animation.