Michelle Bell, Artback NT CEO, shares her reflections on traveling to Taiwan at the end of last year.  As 2025 wrapped up, I had the privilege of travelling to Taiwan as an invited guest of the Taiwan Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP), attending the annual Indigenous Women’s Forum and continuing important conversations with the Taiwan

Thirty years ago, a bold idea took shape in the Northern Territory: that local artists, performers and storytellers deserved to be seen, heard and celebrated on stages and walls across Australia and beyond. That idea became Artback NT, and today, three decades later, it stands as one of the Territory’s most enduring and influential arts

Meet Meissa: Artback NT Welcomes Aurora Intern Thomeissa Mason Artback NT is proud to welcome Thomeissa Mason—who goes by Meissa—to the team as our latest Aurora Education Intern. A talented emerging artist and dedicated student, Meissa joins us for a four-week full-time placement through the Aurora Internship Program, which supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

2025 has been a very busy year for us, with new core staff additions and many shows on tour, we’ve most definitely hit the ground running! In other news though, we are turning 30 this year, and could not have arrived to this milestone without the help of our supporters over the years. Read all

Official Launch: Jingili Song Project – Stuart Joel Nuggett and David Garnham & The Reasons to Live National Tour Haven’t subscribed to our News Letter? Heres a taster! Read all about Stuart Joel Nuggett’s plight to revive the Jingulu language through music with the help of his friends David Garnham & The Reasons to Live

“… there is a very specific life style in the Northern Territory, that is very different to Sydney or Melbourne, and it is really interesting and exciting to bring stories that have that specificity to the stage, and to take them around the country, and that is what I think it really exciting about CUSP.” 

Powered by unparalleled choreographic vision and invention, and Tom Snowdon’s scorching soundscape, Value for Money is, quite simply, the most outstanding piece of contemporary dance theatre I have ever seen, wrote Geoffrey Williams for Stage Whispers, following the 2021 performance at The Darwin Festival. Read the full review here

‘The ending of the piece was breathtakingly beautiful and served to bookend a complex and thoroughly engaging work’ – Barry Lenny, Broadway World REVIEW Value for Money Born in London, Barry Lenny was introduced to theatre as a small boy, through being taken to see traditional Christmas pantomimes, as well as discovering jazz and fine

Journalist Suzannah Conway spoke with GUTS Dance Co-Artistic Directors Frankie Snowdon & Madeleine Krenek; and Co-Directors, creators and choreographers of the GUTS Dance Production of Value for Money  Sara Black & Jasmine Sheppard, as well as Artback NT’s Performing Arts Manager, Evan Saunders for a feature piece about the boundary pushing gutsy Mparntwe based dance company

Some like it hot, is an exhibition curated by Wendy Garden that showcases the work of two accomplished, much lauded and much-loved Northern Territory based artists: Therese Ritchie and Franck Gohier. These artists are well known for their satirical work that combines wit and humour with astute social observation. In this exhibition Garden reflects on