Western Desert Mob

DARWIN ABORIGINAL ART FAIR

Western Desert Mob members Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Tjarlirli Art and Warakurna Artists are travelling north to Darwin to participate again in this year’s prestigious Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. The Art Fair coincides with the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair will provide a fantastic and diverse artistic experience for lovers of Indigenous art and culture. Representing over 30 community arts centres from across Australia, including the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Arnhem Land, the Kimberley Region, Central Australia and the Torres Strait Islands.

The Art Fair is a unique opportunity to purchase art directly form the Indigenous owned and managed Art Centres, to see the work of emerging as well as established artists, to meet the artists and to learn about the many different art cultural groups working in remote Australia.

The Western Desert Mob is a powerful coalition of Aboriginal art centres, painters, woodcarvers and weavers from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia. The artists and their centres are united to ensure the wealth of talent and economic returns are retained in the community. The communities and art centres represented in the Western Desert Mob include renowned and well-established artists from Warakurna, Papulankutja, Kayili, Maruku, Tjarlirli and Tjanpi Weavers.

DETAILS
12 AUG 2010 - 14 AUG 2010
Darwin Convention Centre
Free entry
FOR VISITOR INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE DAAF WEBSITE
http://www.darwinaboriginalartfair.com.au