Charles Darwin University

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mounted in 1980 as an art college coaching series, the CDU artwork series nowadays has a university-extensive and NT local mandate with a focus on network engagement in northern Australia and Southeast Asia. Its permanent holdings contain more than 2000 works of artwork.

the collection features artwork and drawings (especially works on paper) and works of mixed media, by means of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian artists; a few sculpture and ceramics; bark art work; a set of Indigenous material tradition gadgets; and some of works (artwork, prints and textiles) through artists from Southeast Asia.

It additionally comprises more than one thousand restrained version prints (workshop proofs) of country wide and worldwide importance. these include prints produced through Northern versions' printmaking studio and its predecessor printmaking workshop/studios from 1993 to the prevailing, in addition to prints created or editioned with the aid of university printmaking workforce from the college of innovative Arts and arts.

the collection additionally includes a diffusion of the purple Hand Print Studio Archive, presenting 69 poster prints produced between 1997-2002, below the control of Darwin-based totally artist Franck Gohier and ex-pink Planet (Melbourne) printmaker Shaun Poustie.

The CDU artwork collection is presently displayed on two university campuses, Casuarina and Palmerston, and is also housed in its first everlasting and committed exhibition and storage space placed inside the Chancellery, constructing Orange 12, at Casuarina campus. about 20 percentage of the art series's holdings are presently on show at some stage in CDU's Casuarina and Palmerston campuses.

The CDU artwork series has held annual exhibitions within the Nan Giese Gallery, constructing Orange 10, on account that its opening in 1989. The Nan Giese Gallery is managed by means of the faculty of innovative Arts and arts. The staging of the artwork series's exhibitions on this venue acknowledges its historical and modern institutions with the art school. In 1996, the CDU artwork collection's first foremost travelling exhibition, entitled Printabout, turned into organised via ArtbackNETS NT (now ArtbackNT Arts journeying). It displayed 34 lithographs, etchings and linocut prints with the aid of Indigenous artists who had labored with the art school's printmaking staff at the NTU Print Workshop among 1993 and 1996. Printabout toured locally and nationally to 76 venues.

Curated through Ian McLean, a retrospective exhibition of the university artwork collection - artwork and vicinity - became held in 1999.

On nine November 2009, the artwork series’s exhibition entitled Prelude, held in the new CDU artwork Gallery, Orange 12.1.02, marked the respectable commencing of the Chancellery building at Casuarina campus.  There were eleven (eleven) important exhibitions held in the CDU art Gallery on account that then: Exhibitions

In 2013, the CDU artwork series and art Gallery have become a member of college artwork Museums Australia

History

A university art series become established in the Northern Territory with the introduction of the Northern Territory college on 1 January 1989 (renamed Charles Darwin university in 2003, following a merger with Centralian university in Alice Springs and the Northern Territory Rural college).

In 1989, the college inherited and amalgamated two collections formed by way of its precursor institutions: the Darwin Institute of technology (1984-89, previously the Darwin network university, 1974-eighty four) and the university university of the Northern Territory (1987-89). those  collections encompassed:

A 'coaching series' of approximately one hundred gadgets, mainly works on paper by means of cutting-edge Australian non-Indigenous and several Indigenous artists, assembled via an art Acquisitions Committee and the college of great Arts among 1980 and 1989; and
A discrete series of more than 20 Indigenous artwork and fabric culture items acquired in 1988 by way of a former Warden of the university college of the NT, Professor Jim Thomson. This collection consisted of bark art work, sculptures, woven items, decorative weapons and ceremonial regalia, emanating from Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands, imperative Australia and north Queensland.
From the Nineteen Nineties onwards, acquisitions persisted to be made to the college artwork series with the aid of a brand new art series Committee, focusing principally on works on paper by means of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian modern artists, which include university artwork students, team of workers, artists-in-residence and northerly Territory-based totally artists.

on account that 1993, with the established order of the NT college Print Workshop (NTUPW) within the artwork school, renamed Northern variations Printmaking Workshop in 1997, the college artwork series has additionally been the beneficiary of workshop proofs (WPs) of constrained edition prints produced by using artists who have labored with the university’s printmaking personnel. among 1993 and 2002, by means of arrangement between the artwork faculty’s printmaking workshop and artists who had prints editioned there, WPs of prints were donated to the college art series. on account that 2002, the redesignated Northern editions Printmaking Studio has continued this tradition, maintained after the re-integration of Northern variations within the college of creative Arts and humanities.

In 2013, talented WPs of prints within the artwork collection account for approximately 50% of its holdings, rendering it certainly one of the largest Australian Indigenous print collections in the global, representing work with the aid of more than two hundred Indigenous artists.

The print element of the gathering additionally consists of artwork with the aid of non-Indigenous Australian and Southeast Asian artists who've visited the college's printmaking studio, or have been artists-in-residence of the college of creative Arts and arts or Northern versions.

The Charles Darwin university artwork collection is a regarded institutional art series pursuant to suggestions set up by using the Council of Australian university Museums and Collections (CAUMAC). CAUMAC is a unique interest group (SIG) of Museums Australia Inc, which represents extra than 200 college museums and collections Australia-huge.  The CDU art series is also a accomplice corporation of the Collections Australia community (CAN), Australian cultural heritage collections on-line.

Exhibitions

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The CDU collection has command annual exhibitions within the Nan Giese Gallery, Building Orange ten, since its gap in 1989.

The Nan Giese Gallery is managed  the school of creative Arts and Humanities. The staging of the Art Collection's exhibitions in this venue acknowledge its historical and contemporary association with the art school. In 1996, the CDU Art Collection's first major road exhibition, entitled Printabout, was unionized by ArtbackNETS nt (now ArtbackNT Arts Touring). It displayed thirty four lithographs, etchings and linocut prints by native artists who had worked with the Art School's art employees at the NTU Print Workshop between 1993 and 1996. Printabout toured regionally and nationally to seventy six venue.

Curated by Ian McLean a retrospective exhibition of the University art collection - Art and Place - was held in 1999.

Special exhibition of a selection of CDU art collection work have conjointly been mounted in conjunction with University events, conferences and openings. about 20 % of the Art Collection's holdings are currently on show throughout CDU's casuarina and Palmerston campuses.

The CDU collection is primarily exhibited in its new dedicated exhibition house CDU art gallery placed in the chancellery, Building, Orange 12.1.02, casuarina campus.