Nightcliff Community Centre

A stunning mural by local artist Marita Albers, bringing vibrant character to a much-loved community space.

Transformed with a vivid new mural by acclaimed local 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. 

“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. 

Meet the Artist

Marita Albers (Instagram @thesaltymermaidgallery) is a local Darwin artist who 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. 

MARITA ALBERS | DSAF25 Artists 

Photographer: Charlie Bliss Creative