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Delmar Gallery Contemporary art gallery Its program includes curated exhibitions of Australian and international art, salon-style concerts and other events.

Delmar Gallery was established in 1966 as a contemporary art gallery at Trinity Grammar School, and is part of the school's Society of the Arts.

Closes today. Open 12-5pm. "Working between portrait and landscape, the long drives with his father as a young person, b...
02/08/2026

Closes today. Open 12-5pm.

"Working between portrait and landscape, the long drives with his father as a young person, bouncing along dirt roads collecting supplies, inform the composition of Adrian Jangala Robertson's paintings. As curator Aspen Beattie notes, his paintings are often framed as if cropped by the window of a moving truck or viewed through a side mirror."

Text from 'Gathered in the Afterlight'
Essay from curator Stephanie Martin

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry



Images: Adrian Jangala Robertson
‘Yalpirakinu’ 2026, acrylic on canvas, 81.5x61cm
‘Family in Yalpirakinu’ 2020, acrylic on canvas, 61.5x29.5
‘Yalpirakinu’ 2025, acrylic on canvas, 46x91.5cm

Courtesy Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists mwerre.anthurre.artists

Documentation by

Final day 'Gathered in the Afterlight'Sunday August 2, 2026, Open 12 - 5pmBilly Benn PurrurleNicholas CurrieAnnemaree Da...
01/08/2026

Final day 'Gathered in the Afterlight'

Sunday August 2, 2026, Open 12 - 5pm

Billy Benn Purrurle
Nicholas Currie
Annemaree Dalziel
Adrian Jangala Robertson
Karen Mills
Sarah Pirrie
Joseph Williams Jungarrayi
Nola Yurnangurnu Campbell

Curated by Stephanie Martin

Don't miss this beautifully considered show, rich in connections across vast spaces and places from years of research from curator Stephanie Martin. She quotes Ross Gibson in the opening of her catalogue essay "Here is a liquid country, jostled by comingled rhythms that beat in milliseconds, in minutes, in months, in millennia all fibrillating within it at any one moment."

Join us for the final weekend of ‘Gathered in the Afterlife’. “Artists talk to one another. For Sarah Pirrie, her conver...
31/07/2026

Join us for the final weekend of ‘Gathered in the Afterlife’.

“Artists talk to one another. For Sarah Pirrie, her conversations with Karen Mills are generative. Talking helps her reflect on the nature of the lines and boundaries that delineate the shared spaces she inhabits. Territory Day, when fireworks celebrations marking Northern Territory self-government leave debris scattered along Darwin’s coastline and caught within its mangrove systems, is a particularly important source of reflection.

Following this day, Pirrie walks the Darwin shoreline collecting paper casings, fragments of plastic and other remnants of the annual spectacle.

These materials, in the form of ghostly impressions, make their way across the surface of Pirrie’s work. They are thereby transformed into something quieter and more regenerative. Almost like an X-ray, an inverse of the scattered light cast from explosions along the Darwin coastline, Pirrie registers the natural environment on Tengucho paper. With placement, repetition and touch, she transforms what she registers into art.”

Text from 'Gathered in the Afterlight'

Essay from curator Stephanie Martin



‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry





Documentation by





Sarah Pirrie, ‘Ffluent’ 2026, lithography ink on Tengucho paper, 153x97cm

Sarah Pirrie, ‘Chain Reaction’ 2025, graphite, gouache, liquid paper, lithography ink on Tengucho paper, 60x80cm

Sarah Pirrie, ‘Mangrove Flash’ 2025, graphite, gouache, ink, lithography ink on Tengucho paper, 90x150cm

Sharing some visitor highlights from the gallery this weekend. If you have not yet had the opportunity to drop by to see...
26/07/2026

Sharing some visitor highlights from the gallery this weekend. If you have not yet had the opportunity to drop by to see 'Gathered in the Afterlight', it closes next Sunday August 2nd.

"Through portrait and landscape, between figure and ground, the works in this exhibition challenge inherited ways of seeing and ordering the world. Cartography, perspective, the picture plane, and other familiar systems of representation are reworked through artistic practice, opening up different ways of relating to place and to one another. Featuring works from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and Tennant Creek in the Central Desert, Patjarr in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Larrakia Country in Darwin, Gundungurra/ Dharawal Country in Mittagong, and Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne), each artist carries out a form of what Ross Gibson has described as "memory work for the health of culture." Taken together, these works honour the cultural and environmental bonds that sustain life, proposing ways of relating to place that open toward reciprocity."

Text from 'Gathered in the Afterlight'
Essay from curator Stephanie Martin

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry

“Nicholas Currie, of the Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh language group, with connections to Kuku Yalanji Country, lived ...
22/07/2026

“Nicholas Currie, of the Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh language group, with connections to Kuku Yalanji Country, lived in Darwin between 2001 and 2007. He now lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri Country. I first encountered his work at Futures Gallery in Naarm (Melbourne).

Humour and kindness run through Currie's explorations of contemporary Indigenous experience. In ‘Camp Fire’ (2026), a fire burns green. To imagine fire green is to imagine otherwise: renewal, regrowth and the cyclical care embedded in Country. In ‘2 Live laugh and love’ (2026), a cross extends from edge to edge, its axes seeming to continue beyond the picture plane. I am reminded of the giant metal cross Joseph Williams Jungarrayi affixed to an otherwise empty gallery wall in Coconut Grove ahead of ‘My Story With Them’ (2024)

Against black ground, colours build on either side of the cross, emerging from the corners of the canvas and appearing both in front of and behind its axes. Gestural marks seem to scrub across the surface, yet the softly glowing cross remains fixed, as though existing in another spatial register altogether.”

Text From 'Gathered in the Afterlight' Essay from curator Stephanie Martin

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry





Documentation by

Images: Nicholas Currie

Detail ‘2 live laugh and love’, 2026, oil on linen, 67 x 66cm, Collection of the artist
Detail ‘Campfire’ 2026 oil on linen, 50 x 40cm, Private collection Melbourne
Installation view - Delmar Gallery

"On social media from Tennant Creek, artist Joseph Williams Jungarrayi - frequently shares what is happening on Warumun...
20/07/2026

"On social media from Tennant Creek, artist Joseph Williams Jungarrayi - frequently shares what is happening on Warumungu Country. Often backgrounded by the music of Yothu Yindi, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, his posts are generous and outwardlooking, encouraging others to learn about the histories and responsibilities embedded within frequently shares what is happening on Warumungu Country. Often backgrounded by the music of Yothu Yindi, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, his posts are generous and outwardlooking, encouraging others to learn about the histories and responsibilities embedded within Country.

His artistic practice is similarly generous and outward-looking. Working across figuration and abstraction, and drawing on his Warumungu and Croatian ancestry, Williams repurposes the past, remixing it with his own visual language. For example, in Ancestral Beings Crossing Paths (2024), he reappropriates aerial photographs once used to survey and divide Country in order to insist upon cultural knowledge obscured by cartography and the surveyor's incursions into Warumungu land. In Pujjali – Corroboree (booj Ali) (2024), he draws representations of photographs taken by anthropologists Spencer and Gillen of his Warumungu ancestors, asserting his sovereignty through this creative act."

Text From 'Gathered in the Afterlight' Essay from curator Stephanie Martin

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry


nyunyu
Documentation by

Images: Joseph Williams Jungarrayi

Detail, 'Songlines' 2024 (Cat. no JW-26-178) acrylic on 7 found aerial photographs, 220 x 32cm

Detail 'Ancestral beings crossing paths' 2024 (Cat. no. JW-26-177) acrylic on 5 found aerial photographs, 232.5 x 47.5cm. Courtesy of Nyinkka Nyunyu Art & Culture Centre

Detail 'Pujjali - Corroboree' 2024 (Cat. no. 109-24) acrylic on canvas with found acetate mining map, 100.5 x 71cm (framed) Courtesy of Aboriginal & Pacific Art

Installation views - Delmar Gallery

Seven evocative print works by contemporary Darwin-based artist Karen Mills, a descendant of the Balanggarra people, g...
17/07/2026

Seven evocative print works by contemporary Darwin-based artist Karen Mills, a descendant of the Balanggarra people, grace the walls of our mezzanine gallery.

Mill's abstract, landscape-inspired collagraphs invite viewers into layered narratives of place and belonging.

Working through a slow, intuitive print making process, Mill hand-mixes her paints using dry pigments and natural ground ochres before carefully pressing the layers onto paper. The resulting prints are beautifully tactile with organic marks and layered impressions.

Drop by the gallery to see these richly textured prints that reflect the depth of Mill's connection to her Country.

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry




‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm
‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm
‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm
‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm
‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm
‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm
‘Untitled’ 2025, unique collagraph, 40x40cm

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Nola Yurnangurnu Campbell paints Yunpalara (Lake Blair) with dynamic, loose, and expressive brushwork, capturing the sig...
15/07/2026

Nola Yurnangurnu Campbell paints Yunpalara (Lake Blair) with dynamic, loose, and expressive brushwork, capturing the significant, remote soak where precious underground water gathers beneath the desert landscape in northern Western Australia.

"I like being able to paint the country I grew up in, was born in, to keep it alive... the country I paint is their country too." — Nola Yurnangurnu Campbell

Born in the late 1940s near Patjarr in the Gibson Desert, Nola is one of the few remaining artists who experienced a traditional desert life before first contact with Europeans in the 1960s. Raised by her extended family, including renowned Papunya Tula artists Charlie Wallabi (Walapayi) Tjungurrayi and Nangkatji Josephine Nangala, her practice is deeply connected to Country, family, and cultural continuity.

As curator Stephanie Martin reflects, "Living histories are mapped, traced, and reach towards the future."

Visit the gallery this weekend to experience these remarkable works and the stories they continue to carry.



‘Gathered in the Afterlight’

Curated by Stephanie Martin

27 June - 2 August 2026

12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry







NolaYurnangurnuCampbell appears Courtesy of Warakurna Artists and NAP Contemporary

‘Yunpalara’ 2025 acrylic on canvas, 76x30cm

‘Yunpalara’ 2025 acrylic on canvas, 76x50cm

‘Yunpalara’ 2025 acrylic on canvas, 76x76cm (detail)

'18 west of north' is crafted from native Poa labilardierii (tussock) grass, harvested along the Nattai Valley and metic...
11/07/2026

'18 west of north' is crafted from native Poa labilardierii (tussock) grass, harvested along the Nattai Valley and meticulously threaded onto board by multi-disciplinary artist Annemaree Dalziel. Her practice explores power, connection to place, and the visibility of marginalised communities.
The work emerged through long walks on Gundungurra/Dharawal Country in the Southern Highlands of NSW, where Dalziel is based. She walked with members of her community, reflecting on the histories held within grasslands that burn, regenerate, and regrow across the temperature south-east. For Dalziel, the work expresses “being cut off from your roots.” Each blade of grass becomes a typographical trace of the landscape – a quiet mapping of memory, place and belonging.

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry




'18 west of north', 2022 Poa labillardieri, 367cm (length)

Adrian Jangala Robertson’s paintings are filled with vivid recollections of his mother’s Country in Yalpirakinu, North P...
09/07/2026

Adrian Jangala Robertson’s paintings are filled with vivid recollections of his mother’s Country in Yalpirakinu, North Papunya. Working from memory, his family portraits and translation of Country are inextricably linked and a deep sense of time and space emanate across the surface of the paintings in magnificent colour and texture.

Adrian also works with with Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists and had Billy Benn Perrurle as a mentor in the early days of the organisation as Bindi Enterprises. Exhibiting together in ‘Gathered in the Afterlight’ is a special moment to see both artist’s work in the same room.

‘Gathered in the Afterlight’
Curated by Stephanie Martin
27 June - 2 August 2026
12-5pm | Wed - Sun | Free entry
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Adrian Jangala Robertson appears courtesy of Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists

‘Yalpirakinu’ 2025 (Cat no.337-25) acrylic on canvas, 61 x 31.5cm
‘Family in Yalpirakinu’ 2020 (Cat no. 186-20) acrylic on canvas, 61.5 x 29.5cm
‘Yalpirakinu’ 2025 (Cat no. 337-25) acrylic on canvas, 46 x 91.5cm
‘Yalpirakinu’ 2026 (Cat no. 206-26) acrylic on canvas, 81.5 x 61cm
‘Yalpirakinu’ 2026 (Cat no. 7-27) acrylic on canvas, 30.5 x 40.5cm
‘Family in Yalpirakinu’ 2025 (Cat no. 251-25) acrylic on canvas, 60 x 30.5cm

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