Desart CEO Philip Watkins introduces the 2020 DesertMob Symposium program. Desart is the peak arts body for Central Australian Aboriginal Arts and Crafts centres and we have over 30 members.Our member art centres are community-based enterprises, owned and governed by …

Wik Artist Irene Pootchemunka is an Apalech Clan Elder and a master weaver based out of the Wik and Kugu Art Centre in Aurukun on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. Join ICTV for Episode 1 of Aurukun Indigenous Knowledge Centres latest Biocultural film series titled: …

Marisa Maher is an emerging curator and assistant Manager of Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, based in Mparntwe Alice Springs and supports the “Hermannsburg School” style of watercolour artists who continue to paint in the tradition of their grandfather and relative, the …

Join us as we announce the winner of the annual Desart Photography Prize, part of Desart’s Art Worker Program that delivers opportunity for the development of technical skills and experimentation with new media.

“When old man, my father’s brother, did painting he brought all us children and grandchildren to the art centre teaching us to carry on. I used to watch my father painting Pukumani poles and during Kuluma ceremony he was painting his body by holding the mirror. Our fathers …

Part 3 of this series invites the audience to understand what art centres need to keep playing their vital roles in their communities. Elders, artists and staff of three Aboriginal community controlled art centres share the importance of recognising and resourcing the art centres …

In April 2013 a group of ten women held a four day workshop on Arrernte Country east of Alice Springs. The purpose was to articulate the Arrernte healing story and capture this is a painting.