Darwin Emerging Creatives
be ambitious, be courageous, be passionate, and grow!
Who are we?
Darwin Emerging Creatives aims to promote and raise awareness of our vibrant young artist community. We want to create a supportive space to pursue artistic passions and keep young creatives in touch with the latest opportunities and events in our local art scene.The colours selected for DEC reflect the collective's motto to be ambitious, be courageous, be passionate, and grow!
Follow us on Instagram @darwinemergingcreatives to stay in the loop!
Who are the masterminds behind DEC?
Annahloustudios
_ultractive
eskrimko
Dippity
Kezia Michela
Skye Lavelle
Tisha Tejaya
Want to showcase your creative work?
Use our awesome application form to tell us a little about yourself and your creative practice and get featured on our Instagram account! As a bonus, you'll be offered a temporary space in our website's gallery to display some of your workRead more about DEC's Creative Feature requirements and options in the application forms below.CREATIVE FEATURE APPLICATION FORMUse this form if you'd like to NOMINATE a creative to be featured!If you have any questions or suggestions for the forms let us know via Instagram or email.
Featured Creative Gallery
Darwin Emerging Creatives Mascots
Darwin Emerging Creatives was designed to promote and support young people practising any creative discipline, not only the visual arts. To emphasise this, the DEC Team created mascots that could represent the various artistic disciplines we aim to feature on our socials and website and involve in our future projects. Visual and performance artists (actors, dancers), musicians (and composers) and writers/authors.
Kezia Michela D., DEC Mascots, February 2024, Digital illustration: Robin; enthusiastic writer and theatre kid; Wren; bubbly multi-disciplinary visual artist; Avery; super smug musician and composer.
Kezia Michela D., Floral Flow, February 2024, Digital illustration: I wanted Darwin Emerging Creatives’ banner to be organic and continuous and to link to the kurrajong flowers in the logo. And this is how our first mascot, Wren, was created.
Kezia Michela D., Robin, February 2024, Digital illustration: Robin was first created from the idea of fairy floss, a soft and sweet character with festival energy levels.
Projects, Events & Activities
We want to create fun opportunities for emerging creatives to meet, connect, and develop their creative practices. As DEC grows, we plan to broaden the types of projects and events we organise. Here's what we aim to run this year!❁ Creative Features ❁
❁ Casual creative meet-ups ❁
❁ Collaborative projects ❁
❁ Visual art workshops ❁
Geek Up 2025
Presented in partnership with City of Darwin Libraries and
City of Darwin's LAUNCH Youth Program
Geek Up is a FREE event for young people held on the last Sunday of the month at Casuarina Library. We facilitate art workshops with a different guest artist each month for this event.
Fresh Yarns
Presented in partnership with Darwin Fringe
Proudly supported by the Northern Territory Government
Fresh Yarns is a series of FREE workshops we're holding during Youth Week for emerging storytellers to create their own short stories or comics that will be featured in a zine anthology. Applications are now closed.
