The Collection acquires works through direct purchase from artists and representative agents and through donations. In the past, acquisitions also came through the Institute’s artist residency program which was especially active for a decade from the mid-1990s. Collection acquisitions are overseen by the Art Collection Advisory Committee.
2023/2024 acquisitions include work by Kieren Karritpul, Marita Sambono, Danella Lee, Paul Seden, Thomas Anderson, William Savage, Emily Robertson, Bianca Templar, Gloreen Campion, Joanne Nasir, Rupert Betheras, Arthur Dixon, Clifford Thompson, Aileen Napaljarri Long, Billy Kenda, Susannah Nakamarra Nelson, Rosieanne Holmes, Sarah Holmes, Denis Kulata Nelson Tjakamarra, Leigh Fowlestone, George Jungurrayi Ryder and Marie Abbott (Ramjohn).
Joanne Nasir (b. 1961)
Garawa / Djugun
Country Love, 2022, acrylic on paper, 76cm(h) x 56cm(w)
BAC: 07822
© Joanne Nasir
This is Darwin-based Joanne Nasir’s first work in the Institute Art Collection. The work is characteristic of her style which has been forged over a long career as an independent artist. Her style draws on aspects of her Garawa (Borroloola) and Djugun (Kimberley) heritage with a strong sense of colour and abstraction and with the figures in this particular work more indicative of her earlier paintings. This work was produced in Batchelor township during a self-appointed artist residency in 2022, and acquired from the artist’s July/August 2023 solo exhibition Stones and Spirits, NT Indigenous Business Network Hub, Darwin.