Talk | 2024 Telstra NATSIAA Curatorial Insights

The 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) presents over 70 new artworks from emerging and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Telstra

NATSIAA showcases artworks which celebrate and reflect the breadth and specificity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, histories, cultures and connections to Country.

Learn more about the works and the exhibition through insights from MAGNT’s Aboriginal Art and Material Culture curator.

Suitable for ages 16+ | Free | Places are limited | Bookings recommended

Adult supervision essential and a limit of one accompany adult per booking applies.

Please cancel your booking if you are no longer able to make it to free up tickets for others.

Key Information

Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Participants must be able to remain standing for up to 60 minutes as there will be limited opportunties to sit across the two gallery spaces.

Register at the Information Desk in the foyer 15 minutes prior to the start of the program.

The tour will commence at the entrance of Gallery 1.

MAGNT Conditions of Entry

Food and beverage is not permitted inside MAGNT gallery spaces or inside the Discovery Centre. All snacks and drink bottles must be stowed in a locker behind the Information Desk.

Bottled water is permitted on the understanding the bottle is carried in a bag at all times and no water is consumed inside MAGNT gallery spaces.

Backpacks and large bags, greater than 30 cm on any one side (width, depth and/or length) must be stowed in a locker.

Nappy bags greater than 30 cm on any one side and/or containing liquids and food must also be stowed in a locker.

All organic material in your possession, including flowers and/or feathers collected on MAGNT grounds must be disposed of or left at the Information Desk before entering the galleries or the Discovery Centre.

MAGNT acknowledges the traditional owners of Country across the Northern Territory and beyond, and pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

Image: Rebekah Raymond, Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture, at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Photo: Nicole Ogilvie