DESERT MOB 2026 | ARTIST TALKS
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DESERT MOB ARTIST TALKS ✨
Desert Mob Artist Talks is an unmissable opportunity for audiences to hear firsthand from Aboriginal artists and special guests about their work and projects, community and country.
This year, Artist Talks celebrates the 50th anniversary of land rights and the Vincent Lingiari Art Award through presentations, interviews, film, and performance.
2026 Program:
• Our Country, Our Culture | 50 Years of Land Rights - Central Land Council + Barkly Regional Arts + Arlpawe Art & Culture Centre
• Painting as Protest - Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre
• Walking Our Stories: Art on Country and the Runway - Ikuntji Artists
• Nurnaka Urrkaapuntja Tharrka Rinya | Our Work with Grass - Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre + Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC)
• Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling - Hermannsburg Potters + Tangentyere Artists + Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre
Morning tea will be available from 9:00 AM in the Araluen Arts Centre Foyer. Theatre doors will open from approximately 9:30 AM for a 10:00 AM start (all times ACST).
General admission and student/concession tickets available with optional catered lunch.
Purchase your tickets at: https://events.humanitix.com/desert-mob-artist-talks
View the full program at https://desertmob.com/artist-talks/
*Please note, program may be subject to change.
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Image: Marlene Spencer, Chair of Purple House at Desert Mob Artist Talks, 2025. Photo by Sara Maiorino, courtesy Desart.
Desert Mob is proudly presented by Desart in Mparntwe, on Arrernte Country.
Artist Talks is one of many events that makes up Desert Mob, one of the nation’s most significant Aboriginal art events. Desert Mob is an unmissable celebration of the art, stories, cultural connection and vitality of hundreds of artists from 35 Art Centres across central desert Country.
Desert Mob is supported by the NT Government through Arts NT, Tourism and Events NT, and the Community Benefit Fund, Creative Australia, and the Australian Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Strategy and the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy.
Desert Mob Artist Talks is an unmissable opportunity for audiences to hear firsthand from Aboriginal artists and special guests about their work and projects, community and country.
This year, Artist Talks celebrates the 50th anniversary of land rights and the Vincent Lingiari Art Award through presentations, interviews, film, and performance.
2026 Program:
• Our Country, Our Culture | 50 Years of Land Rights - Central Land Council + Barkly Regional Arts + Arlpawe Art & Culture Centre
• Painting as Protest - Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre
• Walking Our Stories: Art on Country and the Runway - Ikuntji Artists
• Nurnaka Urrkaapuntja Tharrka Rinya | Our Work with Grass - Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre + Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC)
• Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling - Hermannsburg Potters + Tangentyere Artists + Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre
Morning tea will be available from 9:00 AM in the Araluen Arts Centre Foyer. Theatre doors will open from approximately 9:30 AM for a 10:00 AM start (all times ACST).
General admission and student/concession tickets available with optional catered lunch.
Purchase your tickets at: https://events.humanitix.com/desert-mob-artist-talks
View the full program at https://desertmob.com/artist-talks/
*Please note, program may be subject to change.
✨✨
Image: Marlene Spencer, Chair of Purple House at Desert Mob Artist Talks, 2025. Photo by Sara Maiorino, courtesy Desart.
Desert Mob is proudly presented by Desart in Mparntwe, on Arrernte Country.
Artist Talks is one of many events that makes up Desert Mob, one of the nation’s most significant Aboriginal art events. Desert Mob is an unmissable celebration of the art, stories, cultural connection and vitality of hundreds of artists from 35 Art Centres across central desert Country.
Desert Mob is supported by the NT Government through Arts NT, Tourism and Events NT, and the Community Benefit Fund, Creative Australia, and the Australian Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Strategy and the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy.
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Where is it happening?
Araluen Arts Centre, Araluen Exhibition Centre, 61 Larapinta Dr, Araluen NT 0870, Australia, Alice Springs
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