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Wanatjura Lewis of Tjala Arts, Amata, at the Desert Mob 2024 Marketplace. Photo by Sara Maiorino

Saturday 12 September

Araluen Arts Centre PRECINCT

FREE EVENT 

The Desert Mob 2026 Marketplace is a large buzzing art market, bringing together paintings, punu, ceramics, weaving, sculpture, textiles and merchandise from 30 Aboriginal-owned art centres across Central Australia, along with workshops, demonstrations and music. The marketplace offers Desert Mob attendees the chance to acquire works directly and ethically from the artists who created them, with all sales going back to artists and their art centres.

The marketplace also features great coffee and food, from Yaye’s Cafe and a number of food vendors.

Desert Mob is presented annually in Mparntwe | Alice Springs on Arrernte Country.

On behalf of Desart’s staff and art centre members, the Executive Committee humbly and respectfully acknowledge the Arrernte Apmereke Artweye (Traditional Owners) and Kwertengerle (Traditional Managers) of Mparntwe.

 

Desart respectfully advises Aboriginal readers that this website may contain names, images and artworks of people who have passed away.