
Art centres attendeding NIAF 2025
We started our Art Fair to support remote art centres to:
Develop and grow a viable pathway to address the extreme economic exclusion experienced by residents of Australia’s remote Indigenous communities.
Ensure every dollar from your purchase goes directly to the artists and their Indigenous owned and governed art centres
Develop their Indigenous lead governance structure leading to Indigenous leadership in the arts and in the business and community lead decisions they make
Maintain and strengthen cultural practices
Ensure people can continue to live on their homelands leading to the preservation of languages and culture
Provide meaningful employment for Indigenous women – who make up around 70% of artists.
Generate income as Art centre sales are often the only externally generated source of income.
Art centres attending 2024
Yinjaa-Barni Art is a collective of Yindjibarndi artists from the Pilbara region of Western Australia, whose ancestral homelands surround the Fortescue River and Millstream Tablelands. Based in Roebourne, the collective creates powerful, personal artworks that reflect deep connections to Country, featuring wildflowers, river systems, and landforms of the region.
Founded in 2004, Yinjaa-Barni is now based in the heritage-listed Dalgety House, a peaceful space for cross-generational artistic and cultural expression.
Walkatjara Art is a not-for-profit, Indigenous-owned and governed art centre based in Mutitjulu, at the foot of Uluru. They are a vibrant hub of art, culture, and community, where artists work alongside families in a positive and creative space.
Artists receive 50% of all artwork sales, with the remainder reinvested into the Art Centre and community programs. They also provide employment and training opportunities for local people.
Located in the heart of Mossman Gorge, at the foothills of the Daintree Rainforest, Yalanji Arts is a 100% Aboriginal-owned art centre supporting Kuku Yalanji artists from Mossman Gorge and surrounding areas.
They celebrate their deep cultural connection to rainforest and ocean country through unique, handcrafted artworks that reflect the richness and diversity of Kuku Yalanji traditions.
Warlayirti Artists represents over 200 artists from the Kutjungka region, spanning the communities of Wirrimanu (Balgo), Kururrungka (Billiluna), Mulan, and Kundat Djaru (Ringer Soak). Artists come from eight distinct language groups—including Kukatja, Ngardi, Djaru, Warlpiri, Walmajarri, Wangkajunga, Pintupi, and Manyjiljarra—each bringing unique stories, traditions, and perspectives to their work.
The centre is a vibrant hub for cultural expression and artistic diversity, supporting creators of all ages and backgrounds—from those raised in the bush or on missions, to younger generations in modern communities.
Badu Art Centre is a community-driven space dedicated to showcasing the rich cultural traditions and creative talent of the Mura Badulgal people of Badu Island. Their artists work across various mediums including printmaking, etching, textiles, jewellery, and carving, with each piece deeply rooted in Torres Strait Islander culture and our profound connection to the ocean, land, and skies of Zenadth Kes.
Their art tells powerful stories of myths, traditions, and natural elements—a reflection of the island’s unique cultural identity, known as ‘Aislan Kustom.’
Central to the Engawala Art Centre mandate is providing professional development opportunities for local artists to expand their artistic horizons, encompassing mediums such as painting, screen printing, pottery, and carving.
The term Jilamara describes "design" based on ceremonial ochre markings on the body. Reimagining these styles at the art centre has fostered a dynamic creative field for maintaining Tiwi knowledge, as well as sharing and celebrating contemporary living culture. These performative foundations have directed the organisation’s course for decades, from its origins in translating jilamara design to screen-printed garments as an adult education centre in the 1980s to producing major exhibition outcomes as an indigenous governed art centre in more recent decades.
"Established in 2008, the Girringun Art Centre is home to multi-award winning artists and craftsmen. Located in Cardwell, Queensland, Girringun represents artists from nine Traditional Owner Groups: the Nywaigi, Gugu Badhan, Warrgamay, Warungnu, Bandjin, Girramay, Gulngay, Jirrbal and Djiru people.
A living functioning art centre, it is not unusual to see artists in the workshop developing new work and honing their craft. The stories and environments of this ancient culture are being transformed daily into visual images and designs by weavers, painters, potters, textile artists and makers of traditional objects. These artists bring to life the unique cultural story and expression of the distinctive Aboriginal rainforest art traditions and culture of the Girringun region, to share with the world."
Minyma Kutjara tjukurpa (Two Women creation story) is an important dreaming from the western and southern deserts of Australia which tells the story of two sister’s epic journey as they travel home across the Lands. Through sacred inma (storytelling, song and dance), their actions create sacred landmarks, such as rock holes and mountain ranges which are imbedded with important woman’s business and ceremony. Irrunytju Community sits at the base of a Minyma Kutjara site called Ultiju Kapi (Two Hills)
We will bring acrylic paintings, tatu, traditional necklaces made by our artists and some tin machines painted and made by them.
Durrmuarts is renowned for its fine, contemporary art production, particularity acrylic painting and fibre work. Senior artist Regina Pilawuk Wilson (winner, general painting, Telstra National Indigenous Art Award 2003) leads a team of talented, established and emerging artists.
The paintings of Peppimenarti are based upon traditional weaving and durrmu (dot body painting) designs. These are complemented by the women artists’ premium pandanus and sand-palm fibre weaving work.
The women of Peppimenarti are traditionally weavers and have transposed their knowledge of fibre and textiles onto the canvas. The results are paintings of intricate, abstract mark-making; some clearly representing syaw (fishnet) and wupun (basket weaving) through their layered textures, whilst others resemble fine tapestries. The men’s art lies in the production of body paint designs and cultural articles. Many of the male artists paint their inherited didgeridoo designs.
Marrawuddi Arts and Culture is a beautiful Community Arts Centre located in the repurposed Jabiru Bakery in the heart of the World Heritage Listed Kakadu National Park.
The stunningly renovated building, which welcomes dozens of visitors daily, features a vibrant working space for artists use as well as a beautiful exhibition area and delicious coffee. Tourists are encouraged to spend time with artists and learn about the beautiful artworks available for purchase. The quality of artworks for sale at Marrawuddi is exceptional and all stock is created by artists living in or around the Kakadu and wider West Arnhem region.
For over 30 years Maruku has operated as a not-for-profit art and craft corporation, owned and operated by Anangu. Approximately 900 Aboriginal artists belonging to over 20 remote communities across the Central and Western Deserts, make up the collective that is Maruku. Our purpose is to keep culture strong and alive, through art, craft and organic experiences.
Bábbarra Women’s Centre has a proud history of positive social impact.
From the early days, we have supported the lives of Aboriginal women in the community of Maningrida and on surrounding homelands.
Bábbarra Women’s Centre enables local women to develop and run women-centred enterprises that support healthy and sustainable livelihoods.
Bábbarra Designs is our main enterprise. We have a textile workshop specialising in the production of hand-printed fabric design using linocut block prints and screen prints. We are one of only a few Indigenous textile-producing art centres in Australia that design, print and sew product onsite, in community.
We are governed by women for women, led by the strong voices of our Bábbarra Women’s Board. In this space, we women are in charge. We operate an op shop and a community laundromat and we support women’s centres on remote homeland outstations in the region.
"Yarna yarnimamalya ena-langwa Ayangkidarrba akwa Amakalyakba-langwa yarna yirriyangbina-maAnindilyakwa ayakwa
We are the people of Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Islands and we all speak the Anindilyakwa language"
The art centre is for people to come and learn, we learn (teach) new people from the community to make art the old ways.
The art centre is good for community, not everyone is an artist or interested in learning the old ways. It’s important that we teach them so they can make baskets and dilly bags too. The old people left us this for the future.
UMI Arts is the peak Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Cultural organisation for Cairns and Far North Queensland.
Established in 2005 UMI Arts mission is to operate an Indigenous organisation that assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to participate in the maintenance, preservation and protection of cultural identity.
UMI Arts is a not-for-profit company managed by an all-Indigenous Board of Directors.
Keringke Art Centre is situated in the community of Ltyentye Apurte in the Central Australian region of the Northern Territory.
The community was named for the stand of bloodwood trees that grow at the foot of hills to the west. Keringke Arts was named after an important and ancient rock-hole nearby that was formed when an ancestor Kangaroo travelled through the country. Several of the Keringke Artists have responsibilities associated with the Keringke Rockhole site.
Keringke Art Centre began with a nine week fabric-painting course back in 1987.
The APY Art Centre Collective are a group of Indigenous-owned and governed art centres that work together on innovative artistic projects, and strong business initiatives. Our art centre businesses are the beating heart of our communities. Our vision is to support every person of working age to have culturally affirming employment and an independentincome so that they can succeed in our world and yours.
Community was established in 1999 near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The work produced by the artists is recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities, due to the application of fine dots and the often bright and figurative depiction of the land.
Spinifex Hill Studio stands on Kariyarra Country in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is home to one of the youngest Aboriginal art collectives in the north-west of Australia, Spinifex Hill Artists.
Tjarlirli Art Centre represents the artists of Tjukurla in the Ngannyatjarra lands of Western Australia. The artwork has strong links with the Papunya Tula movement as families left Kintore and Kiwirrkurra to return to their homelands in the mid 1980s. Tjarlirli Art manages a second art centre, Kaltukatjara Art, representing the artists of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) in the Pitjantjatjarra lands of the Northern Territory. There are close ties and family links between these communities.
Warlukurlangu Artists is one of the longest running and most successful Aboriginal-owned art centres in Central Australia.
It has a national and international profile and its art has been featured in hundreds of exhibitions and publications in Australia and around the world.
Warlukurlangu means ‘belonging to fire’ in the local language, Warlpiri, and is named after a fire dreaming site west of Yuendumu.
Ikuntji Artists was the first art centre established by women in the Western Desert Art Movement. Already in the 1980s women began painting in Haasts Bluff in the aged care facility. They had been instructed by their husbands and fathers, and they had often assisted them in completing their paintings. By the early 1990s these women artists decided to pursue setting up their own art centre.
Munupi Arts & Crafts Association is located along Melville Island's north-western coastline at Pirlangimpi (Garden Point) and is the most recently formed art centre on the Tiwi Islands. In 1990 the Yikikini Women’s Centre and Pirlangimpi Pottery were incorporated under the name Munupi Arts and Crafts Association giving local artists an opportunity to proudly celebrate Tiwi culture through both traditional and contemporary mediums.
For 25 years Munupi Arts has been a vital meeting place for the Tiwi people of the Pirlangimpi community for employment, cultural pride and well being.
Munupi Art is wholly indigenous owned and governed.
The Warnayaka Art Gallery is located in Australia, in Lajamanu, NT. We specialise in Indignous Aboriginal Art. The Lajamanu Community is 580kms south west of Katherine, Northern Territory. Lajamanu is half way between Alice Springs and Darwin. Lajamanu has a population of around 900 Warlpiri people and their stories are part of their art.
Our talented artists and craftspeople make artworks year round in remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory inspired by their culture and local environment. All items offered for sale are made in Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) and the homelands.
Gapuwiyak is a remote Art Centre in east Arnhemland. We are owned by our Yolŋu members and support over one hundred artists from Gapuwiyak and surrounding homelands.
There are eighteen clans in this region each with their own interconnected clan estates, songs, patterns and designs.
Proudly Yolngu; Bula’Bula Arts, is situated in Ramingining within Gurrwiliny (Arafura wetlands) and is part of Northeast Arnhem Land. Our mission is to foster Yolngu culture Bula’bula represents strong professional artists producing high quality artworks telling stories of cultural lore learned through song and dance. This storytelling is reinterpreted into paintings and objects, which have traditional ritual and ceremonial significance.