Alice Springs

Alice Springs Arts

Alice Springs’ arts life gathers in studios, galleries, rehearsal rooms, community spaces and places where stories are recorded, printed, woven and shared. In the Araluen Cultural Precinct, audiences can move between exhibitions, theatre and film, while makers work with fibre, painting, ceramics and other forms. Across Mparntwe, artists and organisations create opportunities for dance, music, performance, writing, radio and inclusive participation. The choices below bring together places to see creative work, join in, learn, rehearse, make a commission or support Central Australian artists.

🎨 Visual Artists & Studios

Araluen Arts Centre

Araluen Arts Centre is a visual and performing arts centre within the Araluen Cultural Precinct. Its program includes exhibitions, theatre and film, with a 500-seat proscenium theatre and a multipurpose artspace. The permanent collection focuses on Central Australian and Western Desert artistic practice, giving audiences a substantial place to encounter local and regional work alongside live performance.

Alice Springs: 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870. ☎ (08) 8951 1122 — general enquiries, box office and theatre hire.

Watch This Space

Watch This Space is an artist-run initiative for multidisciplinary contemporary and experimental art. Its Alice Springs site combines gallery spaces with a sound studio for musicians and sound artists, local artist studios, a travelling artist residency studio and outdoor areas for events, performances and making. It suits creative work that crosses visual art, sound, performance and shared experimentation.

Alice Springs: 8 Gap Road, Mparntwe (Alice Springs), NT 0870. ☎ 08 8952 1949 — general enquiries.

Tangentyere Artists

Tangentyere Artists is an Aboriginal-owned, not-for-profit enterprise for Town Camp artists. Its studio, gallery and outreach programs support emerging and established artists working through painting, shared art-making, stories and short animation. The organisation also welcomes Aboriginal artists visiting Alice Springs from remote communities, connecting local creative practice with a wider Central Australian network.

Alice Springs, NT. ☎ (08) 8951 4222 — general enquiries.

Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists

Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists is a supported Aboriginal art studio and art centre for artists living with disability. Alongside supported studio spaces, it provides exhibition opportunities, design contracts, multimedia collaborations, art fairs and art-award opportunities. Most participating artists live in Mparntwe/Alice Springs and come from Central Desert communities, with the studio supporting individual practice and collaborative projects.

Alice Springs: 47 Elder Street, Alice Springs, NT 0870.

Papunya Tula Artists

Papunya Tula Artists is owned and directed by traditional Aboriginal people, predominantly from the Luritja and Pintupi language groups. It represents artists working through studios in Kintore and Kiwirrkurra, supports individual artists and maintains an Alice Springs gallery. Visits to the remote studios require advance enquiries and may be restricted at artists’ and shareholders’ request, while the Alice Springs gallery provides a local point of contact with the work.

Alice Springs: 63 Todd Mall, Alice Springs, NT 0870, Australia. ☎ +61 8 8952 4731 — gallery and general enquiries.

Central Australian Art Society

The Central Australian Art Society is a volunteer art society supporting Central Australian artists and community participation. Membership is open to artists practising in Central Australia, with access to the Advocate Art Award and opportunities to exhibit at the ArtShed. It offers a practical connection for artists who want to participate in a local society and share work through exhibition activity.

Ciccone: 10 Crispe Street, Ciccone, NT 0870. ☎ 08 8952 0356 — general enquiries.

🧵 Craft & Making

Central Craft

Central Craft is a member-based craft organisation with a retail store, gallery, studios and office in the Araluen Cultural Precinct. Its members work across traditional and contemporary craft, and the studios are accessible to members daily by FOB. The organisation brings making, exhibition and craft retail together, giving local makers a place to develop work and share it with the public.

Alice Springs: 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870. ☎ (08) 8952 4417 — general enquiries.

Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the NPY Women’s Council representing more than 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote NPY Lands communities. Its Alice Springs gallery presents fibre artworks including baskets, sculptures and jewellery. People who want to try the process at home can use its learn-to-weave kit to make a basket, while gallery visitors can encounter the distinctive possibilities of contemporary fibre practice.

Alice Springs: 3 Wilkinson Street, Alice Springs, NT 0870. ☎ (08) 8958 2377 — gallery and general enquiries.

🩰 Dance

GUTS Dance // Central Australia

GUTS Dance works in contemporary dance investigation, creation, training and performance in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Its public programs include a men’s dance class for male-identifying people of any experience level, a beginner class for adults aged over 50, and Brave Bodies for female-identifying and non-binary young people aged 12 to 18. These distinct programs make room for adult beginners, experienced movers and young people to take part.

Araluen Arts Centre, 61 Larapinta Drive, Araluen, NT 0870, Australia.

🎶 Music & Singing

MusicNT

MusicNT is a Northern Territory music industry organisation with an Alice Springs office at the Old Courthouse. MusicNT members can hire spaces there for acoustic rehearsals, hot-desking, meetings and community arts or music-focused events. First-time hirers must complete a building induction. Its Sista Sounds program provides introductory music-development workshops for Indigenous women and girls.

The Old Courthouse, corner Parsons & Hartley Street, Alice Springs, NT. ☎ (08) 8981 1995 — Alice Springs office and general enquiries.

8CCC Community Radio

8CCC combines community radio with audio-visual production and local music programming. Volunteer pathways include content production, live broadcast, podcasts, audio engineering, visual engineering and events. Volunteers require 8CCC membership, identification, a signed volunteer agreement and a Working With Children Clearance; volunteers under 16 require guardian supervision. It is a hands-on place to learn about sound, broadcasting and community storytelling.

Shop 3, 10 Lindsay Avenue, Alice Springs, NT. ☎ 08 8952 7771 — Alice Springs studio and office.

🎭 Theatre & Performance

Totem Theatre

Totem Theatre is a heritage-listed 93-seat theatre available for comedy, small music shows, touring productions, film screenings and rehearsals. Venue hires are arranged through the Hires Manager. The theatre has basic audio and lighting but no fly tower or dock, and musicians need to bring their own equipment, making those practical conditions important for producers and performers planning a booking.

Wills Terrace, Alice Springs, NT.

Incite Arts

Incite Arts is an inclusive, disability-led and community-engaged arts organisation. Its programs can include dance, rapping, aerosol art, singing and performance-making, while its community work develops projects with groups and includes advice about accessible events and communications. The organisation brings creative participation and access practice together, with opportunities shaped around community projects rather than a single discipline.

67 Bath Street, Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Northern Territory. ☎ 0458 526 338 — program and involvement enquiries.

✍️ Writing & Storytelling

NT Writers’ Centre

NT Writers’ Centre supports writing and storytelling through year-round workshops, events and member services. Its program includes Alice Springs workshops and an Emerging Writers Group for people who want to write and meet other writers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Writers can use the organisation to develop work, find a writing community and take part in activities focused on the written and spoken word.

Alice Springs, NT. ☎ +61 8 8952 3810 — Alice Springs enquiries.

Running Water Community Press

Running Water Community Press is a not-for-profit, community-controlled publisher run by authors and storytellers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. It centres First Nations storytelling and truth-telling from remote areas and works on copyright justice initiatives. People interested in its collective publishing work can make contact, with the press offering a local connection between authorship, community control and the sharing of stories.

Alice Springs, NT.

🤝 Arts Organisers & Community Connections

Red Hot Arts Central Australia

Red Hot Arts Central Australia is a regional non-profit arts organisation providing spaces, workshops, advocacy and events for artists and arts workers in Central Australia. Its accessible spaces can be hired for rehearsals, classes, meetings and events, while artist-development activity includes Project Seed. It offers both practical room hire and a broader connection for artists developing work and community-based arts activity.

67 Bath Street, Alice Springs, NT 0870, Australia. ☎ 08 8952 2392 — general enquiries.

Together, these organisations show how creative work in Alice Springs moves between making, performance, participation, publishing and practical production. An audience member might begin with an exhibition or gallery visit, then return to a class, rehearsal, writing group, studio, broadcast project or community arts program. Artists and producers can also find places to exhibit, develop work, hire a room or connect with collaborators.

Are you an Alice Springs artist, maker, teacher, company, community group or arts-support business? You are warmly invited to add or update your Arts-Directory listing so people can discover the creative work happening across Mparntwe and Central Australia.

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