With accelerating momentum, contemporary artists are shifting the conceptual focus of their practices to address the intensifying crisis of Australia’s diminishing water supply.

Groundswell features over twenty works by Northern Territory artists. The works extend through vast geographies, perspectives and artistic mediums to stake their claim, spanning moving image, visualised data, painting, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. These works find commonality in their shared determination to bridge the message of each individual artist to our collectively shared concerns as Northern Territory citizens. In this way, visual culture is harnessed to agitate for the paradigm shift we so desperately need if we are to preserve our most precious resource into an uncertain future.

Diverse in aesthetic but united in unambiguous concern for country, Groundswell showcases works of formidable creativity and palpable substance. For this reason, its significance does not lie solely in its lucid demands but lies equally within its art historical context. Through these works we can identify the compelling first steps of an artistic movement in its own right. As streams form rivers, individual artworks combine to form a collective force. A groundswell has occurred.

The touring exhibition, organised by Artback will be at Nyinkka Nyunyu from the 15th of May 2021.

Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression celebrates twenty years of onsite print production at the Yirrkala Print Space in the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre. Located in the remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, the Yirrkala Print Space is unique amongst remote community art centres boasting twenty years of continual production of limited edition fine art prints by locally employed and trained Indigenous printmakers.

The touring exhibition, organised by Artback in association with the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre will be at Nyinkka Nyunyu from the 19th of March 2021.

Nyinkka Nyunyu in collaboration with Barkly Regional Arts are presenting Ankkinyi Apparr, Ankkinyi Mangurr (Our Language, Our Designs) an exhibition celebrating Warumungu language and culture.

Ankkinyi Apparr, Ankkinyi Mangurr was motivated by the work of Linguist Prithvindra Chakravarti who came to Warumungu country in 1966. Chakravarti made audio recordings of Apparr (language) and Winkarra (dreaming, stories and law), helping to preserve the language and culture of the Warumungu people. After listening to these recordings, local artists Gladys Anderson, Heather Anderson, Lindy Brodie, Ruth Dawson, Penny Kelly, Susannah Nelson and Joseph Williams were  inspired to create a series of paintings depicting ancestral stories, traditional healing, the arrival of whitefellas and station life. The artworks are accompanied by the recordings Chakravarti created in 1966 along with two films.

The exhibition was shown in the Tarnanthi festival at the Art Gallery of South Australia and has now been brought home for local Warumungu people.

Ankkinyi Apparr, Ankkinyi Mangurr will be shown at Nyinkka Nyunyu Arts and Culture Centre from the 18th of November 2020 until March 2021