Numburindi: Strengthening Culture and Country 2018 – 2020 focusses on inter-generational learning and exchange through the delivery of bush camps annually with the young people in Numbulwar and surrounding homelands. Artback NT received multi-year funding from Tim Fairfax Family Foundation to coordinate, support and collaborate on this project with the community. Eve Pawlik, Indigenous Traditional

B2M concluded their first national tour around Australia in Darwin on Sunday 18 November 2018. B2M band member Jeffrey ‘Yello’ Simon reflected upon the development of the show ‘Mamanta’, their cultural journey and the opportunities the tour presented with Elizabeth Rogers, Performing Arts Manager. “We are B2M (Bathurst to Melville) – a seven-piece Indigenous RnB

Jinu Mathew’s dance workshops with our Artists on Tour Program take you on a journey through different dance forms. In this interview with our Intern Mia Tinkler she reflects on her own journey with Artists on Tour…

Paiwan performer 桑梅絹 Sang Mei-Chuan recently spent six-weeks in the NT as our artist in residence. In this interview with Kate Rendell she speaks about her first international residency and how she can’t wait to come back to Australia…

Rachael Wallis recently completed a six-week residency in Rinari as part of our Indigenous exchange program with Taiwan. Here she speaks about sharing food, dance and culture with Indigenous artists across Taiwan and the things she learnt along the way…

Bernard Namok Jnr (‘Bala B’) of Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association (TEABBA) recently travelled from the studio in Darwin to Borroloola for Malandarri Festival. At the Festival Bala B spoke to Festival Director Marlene Timothy and performers Elijah Douglas and Ryan Timothy about their communities, culture and the opportunity to perform…

Visual Arts Program Manager Jo Foster wraps up the happenings at our recent SPARK NT Curatorial Symposium in Katherine…

Senior Borroloola songwomen Marjorie Keighran, Jemima Miller and Isa McDinny sat down with Comms Manager Kate Rendell to share their songs, stories and reflections ahead of the recent Malandarri Festival…

Renowned dancer and choreographer Rachael Wallis reflects on her upcoming residency in Rinari, Taiwan, where she will spend six weeks as the inaugural Indigenous Artist in Residence…

In early 2018 Artback NT travelled the largest ever NT delegation of artists and arts workers to APAM in Brisbane. Here Alice Springs based artists Frankie Snowdon and Madeleine Krenek reflect on the opportunity…