00:02More than half a century of history, documenting hundreds of modern artworks from remote community
00:08schools to Darwin's most prominent buildings. Marked is a new exhibition at the Northern
00:14Centre for Contemporary Art, tracing modern murals, public art projects and graffiti culture
00:19across the Northern Territory since 1971. We wanted to capture some of the stuff that's
00:25happened at bush, the old school murals and tell the stories of how those murals went off
00:30to create full industries. From Vincent Lingiari immortalised in Catherine to collages of brightly
00:36coloured animals in Kintor, one of Australia's most remote communities. It's just amazing
00:42to see it all in one place and it's really inspiring. Some of the things that we found
00:46when we went into the archives and when we did a community call out was that murals have
00:51existed, modern murals have existed in different settings like on schools, in recreation halls
00:58and that type of thing in communities. Carefully assembled over the past six months, more than
01:04300 images of street art are on display, including the Territory's first recorded modern mural created
01:11in 1971 in the remote community of Papunya. New artwork also on display by sisters who are
01:18no stranger to Darwin's art scene. There's such an important legacy of street art from the
01:24movement in Papunya in the 70s to contemporary work today. It is such an important form of
01:30expression and it's so different to any other type of art. It's so beautiful that it fills the
01:39landscape with bold colour and lines and stories. And the exhibition showcases more than
01:45just history. We've changed the city and how people use it and how people move in it, where
01:51businesses want to set up. They used to be wanting to be up on the road, now they want
01:54to be around the art. The exhibition runs until June.
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