Exhibitions & Events Overview
World Expo 2025
13 April – 13 October 2025
Bureau International des Expositions, Yumeshima
Osaka, Japan
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art
30 May – 22 November 2025
The Potter Museum of Art
Parkville, Victoria
Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia
24 June – 21 September 2025
Artizon Museum
Tokyo, Japan
FITE – Textile Biennial
24 August 2025 – 25 January 2026
Sesc Pinheiros
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025
4 September – 2 November 2025
Cheongju Culture Factory
Cheongju, South Korea
Gathering: National First Nations Weaving Salon
5 September – 10 October 2025
Light Square Gallery
Adelaide, SA
Desert Mob Exhibition
11 September – 26 October 2025
Araluen Arts Centre
Mparntwe/Alice Springs, NT
Desert Mob Marketplace
13 September 2025
Araluen Arts Centre
Mparntwe/Alice Springs, NT
Rurkuni – gusting, revving, rushing
27 September – 2 November 2025
Jam Factory Tarntanya/Adelaide
Adelaide, S
Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi
17 October 2025 – 18 January 2026
Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide, SA
Tarnanthi Art Fair
17 - 18 October 2025
Union House, University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA
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Tjanpi Desert Weavers is thrilled to be part of Bush Car: The Exhibition at Short St Gallery—a vibrant celebration of an icon of remote desert life: the beloved motorcar.
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Visit Desert Mob at Araluen Arts Centre. Mutuka Rikina! celebrates the significant positive impacts that come from motorcars in community.
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Patterns and Textures and Lines - Oh My!
The exhibiting selection of Tjanpi work celebrates the joy of basket weaving and the use of colour and material to create pattern and structure.
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A huge congratulations to Margaret Smith who has been selected as a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize 2024, for her sculptural piece Yes! Car.
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2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
We are so proud that late Tjanpi artist, Mrs Heffernan was selected as a NATSIAA finalist.
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Desert Mob is back for 2024 with hundreds of artists from 35 art centres across the desert converging on Mparntwe (Alice Springs) to celebrate desert culture in the heart of Australia. Tjanpi is ex...
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Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2024
A new collection of works: Ngura Tjanpi (Grass Country) created by artists from Mimili Community on the APY Lands, SA.
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We are jetting off to the USA in July to celebrate the 20th Annual International Folk Art Market.
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Mparntwe Gallery
Explore the largest collection of Tjanpi artworks at our gallery in Alice Springs. Discover a changing selection of baskets, sculptures, jewellery, books, and merchandise, including products from the NPY Women’s Council Ngangkari team.
Location: NPY Women’s Council, 3 Wilkinson Street, Alice Springs NT 0870 – just follow the pink signs.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10am–4pm (closed weekends, public holidays, and during January).
Contact us: (08) 8958 2377 tjanpi.reception@npywc.org.au