Name: DESERT MOB 2025 | MARKETPLACE
Start: 2025-09-13T10:00:00+09:30
End: 2025-09-13T14:00:00+09:30
Location: Araluen Arts Centre

Witness Desert Mob come alive as thousands flock to the Araluen Arts Centre precinct for the buzzing Desert Mob Marketplace! ✨
The large art market offers attendees the opportunity to acquire works directly from the artists who created them. View and purchase paintings, ceramics, punu, weavings, sculptures, textiles, clothing, jewellery, homewares and more from Aboriginal-owned art centres across Central Australia.
Experience the richness and diversity of desert art at the Araluen Arts Centre Precinct with food stalls, workshops, performances, activations and more on offer.
This is a free event open to all the community.
✨ Marketplace Program of Events:
• 10:30 AM – Sgraffito Ceramics Demonstration by Ernabella Arts at Central Craft (free)
• 11 AM - Yarrenyty Arltere Artists Soft Sculpture Workshop in the Araluen Arts Centre foyer (free)
• 11:30 AM - Hermannsburg Potters Ceramics Workshop at Central Craft (2-day event, ticketed)
The marketplace is a free to attend and open to all the community.
For the full program of events and to purchase tickets to Hermannsburg Potters workshop, head to www.desertmob.com/public-programs-satellite-events/
To assist in planning your attendance, visit www.desertmob.com/visit-us/
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Desert Mob is proudly presented by Desart in Mparntwe, on Arrernte Country.
The Marketplace is one of many events that makes up Desert Mob, one of the nation’s most significant Aboriginal art events. Desert Mob is an unmissable celebration of the art, stories, cultural connection and vitality of hundreds of artists from 35 Art Centres across central desert Country.
Desart acknowledges and thanks the Northern Territory Government and the Araluen Arts Centre, Northern Territory Major Events Company, Arts NT, the Northern Territory Community Benefit Fund, Creative Australia, the Australian Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support and Visual Arts and Craft Strategy program, The Ian Potter Foundation, and 8CCC Community Radio for their support.
Image: Wanatjura Lewis of Tjala Arts, Amata, at the Desert Mob 2024 Marketplace. Photo by Sara Maiorino. Courtesy Desart.