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3 Aboriginal Art Centres in Central Australian desert communities is under construction

December 7, 2023

The first of 3 Aboriginal Art Centres in Central Australian desert communities is under construction. All 3 art centres will primarily serve as culturally appropriate workshops that will support some of Australia’s most successful artists who produce extrodinary art that is exihibited and collected around the world. The buildings are well overdue for these amazing artists and the important employment the art centre enables within community.

The first to start construction is the Utopia Art Centre in Arlparra, Northern Territory, 280km north east of Alice Springs. All three will be prefabricated on precast concrete slabs in Murray River North Group‘s yard in Alice Springs. This will enable a high quality of construction in these very remote and small communities.

Here are some pics of artists, some of who are community elders, on a visit to the Alice Springs yard on one of their regular visits to exhibitions of their work around the country. It is an honour to be working for these amazing people / artists and always a special thrill to be working in desert communities where it all started for Ka Wai Yeung and I.

A huge thanks to art centre manager Sophia Lunn and congratulations for pulling it all together!

Very proud to see Marni Reti leading these 3 projects.

Artists: Simon Pwerl Kunoth, Dinni Kemarr Kunoth, Sam Mpetyan Dixon

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