Current exhibitions

Echoes of the Earth and Soul, a group exhibition by Dorothea Janczewska and Renata Robinson |4 – 26 September | Join us for the exhibition launch on Friday 4 September, 6-8pm.

Reflections of a Wandering Soul, a solo exhibition by Nisita |4 – 26 September | Join us for the exhibition launch on Friday 4 September, 6-8pm.

Garage Sale, a solo exhibition by Karen Hill |4 – 26 September | Join us for the exhibition launch on Friday 4 September, 6-8pm.

She, a solo exhibition by Karen Hill | 4 – 26 September | Join us for the exhibition launch on Friday 4 September, 6-8pm.

Humid Hallucinations  Group exhibition by Forest Hangs

Ann Owen | Top End Characters

Jose Patalinghug | This Skin of Light

Maggie Gleeson Briscoe | Birds of a Feather

Brendan Hicks, Yuka Hicks & Michael Totham | Polarity

Carly Gilera | Lines of Life

Sticker Boy | Sticker 100 | 12 June – 4 July. Exhibition opening Friday 12 June, 6-8pm.

Roxanne Voulanas | Macro | 12 June – 4 July. Exhibition opening Friday 12 June, 6-8pm.

Cathy Hilder | Under the Sea | 12 June – 4 July. Exhibition opening Friday 12 June, 6-8pm.

Jess Del Rosario | RejuveNature | 12 June – 4 July. Exhibition opening Friday 12 June, 6-8pm.

Winners announced! Congratulations to Rebecca Parker (First Prize), Gretel Bull (Second Prize), Joseph Jungarayi Williams (Third Prize), and Rhenz Flores (Honourable Mention).

Come along to our fundraising event at Deckchair Cinema on Sunday 12 April to support the 2026 Northern Territory Art Award!

Join us for the first Darwin Visual Arts member exhibition of 2026...BRINK! Opening Friday 20 March, 6-8pm.

The Northern Territory Art Award showcases the depth, diversity, and brilliance of Territorian artists. Exhibition dates: Friday, 29 May – Saturday, 11 July 2026

O’Loughlin Catholic College’s Creative Arts Exhibition

Calamity Mary | Unbranded

Members Show | Falling // Rising

Robby Mckenzie | Life After Service

Liz Grylls | Brainscapes

Alison Worsnop | Flower Visitors

Arlya Tuckey and Lara Penney | Kaleidoscope

ArtBroken

This exhibition reflects the ‘Revitalisation’ of ‘Femininity’ and ‘Cultural Resilience’.

These pieces capture the spirit and rebellion of the world’s most unforgettable musicians.

Inspired by the unpredictable nature and vivid colours of Darwin’s wet season

Discover the bold, imaginative world of Darwin’s own trailblazing publisher Wild North Comics.

Explore the nature of local lifestyles with intent to capture funky fashions and everyday living in Darwin. The artworks displayed will depict the fun, enigmatic and colourful existence of tropical Darwin during the day, and the busy, energetic nightlife around its local haunts.

Step into the vibrant world of the Australian Top End with Colours of Home, an exhibition of predominantly pastel paintings that capture the striking beauty of the local landscape.

‘Ways of Seeing: Miya/Significant Plants – Beginnings’ showcases works from five culturally diverse, female artists – Glynis Lee, Angelina Lewis, Juwayning Lorraine Williams, Linda Yarrowin, Nena Zanos - created during a printmaking project at Wagait Beach. Artworks reflect each artist’s personal connection to chosen plants. Accompanying stories and video communicate cultural knowledge.

The viewer is exposed to obscurities of the universe including artwork, ‘Solar Flare’ depicting a solar explosion also, ‘Meteor Shower’ and ‘Supernova’. Energy and passion are radiating from the paintings, highlighting intensity. In contrast, ‘The Wormhole’ and ‘Galaxy’s Breath’ depict the timelessness and constancy of galaxies and the beyond.

Ray Hayes moved to the Northern Territory in the early 1980’s to work in Yirrkala and then Darwin. He was a passionate advocate for Human Rights, Labour Rights, Land Rights and the Environment. Ray assisted Yothu Yindi in obtaining the initial funding for band. He advocated and assisted Aboriginal people throughout his working life at Bagot Community and with the Larrakia Nation.

mewe responds to the continuity of genocides which have been ceaseless throughout world history From Guernica to Gaza. Making use of humour and absurdities, mewe links historical events with his observations of the ominous trends in world events in 2024 - with all signs pointing towards global catastrophe and nuclear escalation.

The Australian Outback light is intense, full of colour and heat. Paint thickens as the asphalt heats, sticky and viscous. This light is tempered, come dusk, changing the palette. In this rugged, timeless land life abounds despite this harshness; quirky, intrusive, claiming its ownership. I am concerned with mark-making, to capture the feeling of a surface, which may contrast with the surrounding textures. I use a variety to tools to scrape and work with the paint to build up a textured surface, which is often in contrast with the smoothness of water and reflections.  Opening: Friday 1 September 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 1 - 23 September 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

As a profession, art therapy is still very white, western and colonial. As an art therapist from a non-white and non-western background, Eva examines trauma and healing from a different perspective. She explores the power of art and storytelling to critique the toxic systems that are making us unwell as a collective. She imagines a reconnection to nature-culture as alternative sites of power to reclaim healing centered on our identity. Eva is an art therapist with a Malaysian Chinese background. Her diasporic and multicultural background offers her a unique vantage point to critique the dominant culture. Opening: Friday 1 September 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 1 - 23 September 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery One Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

My work celebrates images of women standing in, emerging from, or swimming through, water. They’re strong, beautiful, and rendered in unique poses so women can confidently celebrate freedom, and live braver lives. Through vibrant colours, drips, and splashes of paint and thread, I evoke a liberating space where my women are free from restraint and free to be who they want to be. My source underwater photographs were taken whilst on a photo shoot to beautiful Bitter Springs - my model is my daughter Haylee Inkster - and my exhibition is named after a line in Jeannie Gunn’s “We of the Never Never”. Opening: Friday 1 September 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 1 - 23 September 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT  Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

The September issue #2 - ‘Friendships and Family, and the one’s you make.’  This Exhibition celebrates the good times had over the year. A commemoration of friendship and family, using vibrant colours and playful patterns to depict images of moments had which are held deep in the heart. All artworks are produced intuitively and from memory, using a combination of mixed media such as watercolour, gouache, acrylic paint and posca pen. I hope to pull the viewer into a world of fun and funk, capturing cool times ahead. Opening: Friday 1 September 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 1 - 23 September 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

Step into a realm where art transcends meaning and embraces the pure aesthetic experience. Join us for an immersive journey into the world of devoid, where concepts lie outside rationale and ideas convey no message but stir profound emotions. Art in it’s most visceral state where colours and textures intertwine to create visually poetic masterpieces that captivate the senses. A visually poetic and aesthetically refined experience that ignites contemplation and introspection. This ambitious project beckons you to explore the power of feeling over thought, inviting you to embark on an artful exploration like no other. Opening: Friday 1 September 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 1 - 23 September 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

"I consider myself an encaustic artist. I have used other forms of media over some 50-plus years of artistic practice, painting and creating, but encaustics is my preferred medium – I would go so far as to say that I am ‘addicted’! For the “Cosmology Series”, I have drawn inspiration from various scientists and theorists and embellished them in a metaphorical way to reflect how I think the universe functions. In this way, I hope my artwork is both educational and aesthetically pleasing. Nebulae, galaxies, and quasars are depicted from memory—rather than literally—as a symphony of colours, and I paint them in my go-to medium, encaustics. I appreciated the most recent exploding star in the Milky Way Galaxy, Kepler's supernova so much, it became the starting point for the “Cosmology Series”. - Stephen (Buffalo) Dalton Opening: Friday 28 July 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 28 July - 19 August 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

Ulrike Kachel is a bird photographer in the Northern Territory. While photography is a long-time passion, her birding journey started when she moved to the NT during COVID19. While spending two weeks in quarantine at Howard Springs, Ulrike used her daily walks to capture the birdlife visiting the camp. Since then—travelling around Darwin and beyond—Ulrike has captured many amazing NT birds. Although a photograph is the desired outcome, for Ulrike birding and photography is a mindfulness process that helps balance her busy life. Ulrike Kachel’s “Birds on my Mind” debut exhibition invites the viewer to join her in some of these mindful moments.  Opening: Friday 28 July 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 28 July - 19 August 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

A Multi-sensory exhibition, combining illustrations and soundscapes, Growing explores finding home within ourselves and rebuilding after trauma. Piiij has created a collection of digitally drawn images as an exercise in active healing through honest examination of self. Hyper detailed depictions of the human form with plants sprouting from within, this visual interpretation of internal restoration invites you to see things clearly, all of the flaws, but also the parts that bloom. Inspired by Piiij's focus on themes of healing and growth, Neha's conceptual sound art builds on the audiences visual experience of the work, combining corporeal sonics with rhythmic compositions, empathic refrains, and aural ecologies evoking flora and fauna. Bring earphones and a listening device. Opening: Friday 28 July 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 28 July - 19 August 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

Deanna Field is a self taught artist who lives and works in Darwin's rural area. Her preferred mediums are soft pastels and oil paints. Deanna's artwork encompasses a diverse range of subjects, including landscapes and portraits of both humans and animals. Her unique style can be described as realistic, while also embracing the beauty of simplicity.  Her exhibition "Life on the River," draws inspiration from the picturesque Adelaide River and the surrounding flood plains, showcasing the various animals and birds that call this region their home. Opening: Friday 28 July 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 28 July - 19 August 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

That feeling when you see a piece and it speaks to you. Jeannie Bennett and Jim Bamber both grew up in the Territory. Both create with the aim of functional ceramics. Jeannie is exhibiting colourful, quirky ceramic pothead pieces. Jeannie’s use of bright underglazes and floral embellishment bring the pieces to life. Jim builds detailed scenes from Old Darwin such as Chinese New Year and Cyclone Tracy and other events that resonate. Lately Jim has been experimenting with a fusion of wire and ceramics such as his Tour De France tableau. Opening: Friday 28 July 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 28 July - 19 August 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

A showcase of ink's versatility. Ink allows the full spectrum of artistic expression. Ink can empathise the mood of a place and your surroundings with the excitement of urban sketches. Or you can create controlled, mindful work with fine pen and indelible ink to render detailed drawing, often conveying the emotional state of the subject, and assisting the artist to enter a more meditative state. Or you can go further with Chinese ink and the uncontrolled flow and spontaneity of an emotional response to the subject matter, as well as helping to express the internal state of mind of the artist. Opening: Friday 23 June 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 23 June - 15 July 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

Marianne Foster is a Territory artist, art teacher and mother. This exhibition explores the lesser-known architectural designs of the urban landscape that perhaps we as urban jungle dwellers take for granted. The eccentricities of Darwin's ever-changing built environment combined with its rich sunset colours. Marianne’s travels in France and her penchant to use found objects in her art are also sources of inspiration for this exhibition. In 2020 she joined everyone else and adopted a 'covid' dog and now dogs are a great source of inspiration in her art, you will see them displayed in used tiny sardine cans as glamourous hounds. Opening: Friday 23 June 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 23 June - 15 July 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm

The Great Emu Wars celebrates the infamous Australian war of the same name, in which a rebellious mob of emus out flanked the machine-gun mounted jeeps sent to eradicate them. Ninety-one years later, Bev Garside portrays the battles between the Army and emus in a humorous and slightly sarcastic light, using felt and mixed media to visualise the tenacious and resilient emus. The emus are joined in arms by other quirky fauna from around Australia, prompting viewers to ask themselves whether there is more that we too can do to support our native wildlife against climate change and habitat destruction. Opening: Friday 23 June 2023 6pm - 8pm Showing: 23 June - 15 July 2023 Where: DVA - Ground Floor, Harbour View Plaza 1/8 McMinn St, Darwin City, NT Gallery opening hours for exhibitions: Wednesday 12 - 5pm, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm