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Project Summary

The Arnhembrand project aimed to raise national and global awareness of the work by Indigenous communities living in west Arnhem Land to preserve their unique culture and ecology.

Arnhembrand was an independent art, science and stories project that worked with the Karrkad Kanjdji Trust to promote the objectives of healthy country and healthy community in the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area. Using new mediums and technologies, the project participants worked with these communities to give a new voice to the cultural and environmental challenges they face. It aimed to highlight the critical relationship that the Djelk clans have with their land and to tell their positive story to a wider audience in fresh and exciting ways.

Next Exhibition

Please join us for the opening of Arnhembrand - Living on Healthy Country, a Karrkad Kanjdji Trust project undertaken between Bininj and Balanda artists in the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area, west Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. This independent and contemporary environmental art project was supported by private donors including the Macquarie Group Foundation. The exhibition uses new media and technologies and includes the Bininj collection of paintings acquired for the archive of the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada. The exhibition also includes paintings and video by Balanda artists, Alexander Boynes, David Leece and Mandy Martin. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue of Arnhembrand writings and artworks, please see the digital version here.

Arnhembrand - Living on Healthy Country


To be officially opened by
Jason Smith - Director, Geelong Gallery
Introduction by David Rickards

6pm - 8pm, 6th July 2017
Space Gallery
9-19 Elizabeth Street, Sydney CBD
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10am - 2pm
Exhibition continues until 27th July 2017

View the CATALOGUE here

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Blog Entries

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April Reflections
April Reflections

Hugo here writing up some of my experiences of the most recent, and final, trip to Maningrida to work with the amazing local artists and rangers.

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August Reflections
August Reflections

This blog post was written by David Leece.

A third trip occurred in the late dry of August. Warm days and very cool mornings. The floodplain in the early morning, from our vantage point at Djinkarr, is a vast white ocean of mist, all features lost, the extent unknown and hidden, to be revealed in the latent heat of the day.

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A Day in the Life of the Djelk Rangers
A Day in the Life of the Djelk Rangers

The ranger station was a hive of activity when I arrived.  A line of Toyotas, bonnets up, were parked in front of the ranger station. Some had been washed and some were being washed and all were having the essential elements for a hard day in the bush checked – tyres, oil, fuel etc. Safety is a huge priority for the rangers who operate in a landscape where an accident or breakdown could be life threatening.

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A Successful Second Trip
A Successful Second Trip

Following our successful 'reccie' in March to Maningrida to present community members in the Djlek IPA with a project proposal developed from their concerns about Living on Healthy, we returned with a larger Arnhembrand team to Maningrida in the Djelk IPA. The community endorsed our proposal and started drawings, digital and oral recordings and signed participation consent forms.

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Arnhembrand Update 1
Arnhembrand Update 1

We firstly thanked the Traditional Owners for permission to visit Country and acknowledged the elders past and present. We then presented some models of how Arnhembrand would work with community participation on art and stories about environmental preservation.

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