Colourful Explosion

Nightcliff Community Centre was transformed by a vivid mural by artist Marita Albers, bringing colour and character to the popular community hub.

Marita is known for her vivid colours, birds and tropical foliage in her works, but becoming a serious artist was something that happened quite accidentally. 

Darwin Street Art Festival (DSAF) is delivered by Proper Creative, funded by the Northern Territory Government (NTG) through Activate Darwin and proudly supported by the City of Darwin along with other valued sponsors.

MARITA ALBERS | DSAF25 Artists 

Meet the Artist

“I started painting seriously when I moved to Darwin in 2001. I’d done a couple of paintings that I’d given to out as gifts, but when I started working in a café – Relish, it was called, where Kurt’s Cakes is now – they said their walls were a bit blank and they wanted to do something about it,” she says. 

Marita has been exhibiting her work in the Territory, interstate and overseas for almost twenty years. She is primarily known for her brightly coloured, exuberant paintings, but has worked in a variety of other mediums as well. Marita has collaborated on dance and fashion projects, illustrated a children’s book and worked on several public art projects. She draws on her love of story and her travels to fuel her work and professes an incurable addiction to colour. 

Instagram: @thesaltymermaidgallery

Photographer: Charlie Bliss Creative