Brown's Mart Welcome Tour
An Augmented Reality Exhibition and Audio Tour of Brown's Mart.
Beyond just being the home for an arts organisation, the site of the Brown’s Mart precinct has a long history. We’ve created this tour to take you on the journey of this place: dating back tens of thousands of years as Gulumerridjin (Larrakia) Country, its different lives since the first building went up in the 1880s, and most recently as a hub for the arts in the Darwin CBD.
Explore the AR exhibition by scanning the floor markers at Brown's Mart, 12 Smith St, Darwin, or download the App and listen to the audio stories anytime, anywhere.
There are three ways to experience the Tour
Take the full AR and Audio Tour at Brown's Mart
Listen to the App stories anywhere, anytime
Explore the on-site Exhibition at Brown's Mart
The Brown's Mart Welcome Tour is now available in Beta.
IPads equipped with the Tour are available at the Brown's Mart Info Desk.
Listen with Headphones for the best experience.
Credits and Attribution
Larrakia Nation Consultants
Donna Jackson
Denise Quall
For Brown’s Mart
Cj Fraser-Bell, Sophia Hall, Haneen Martin, Ciella Williams
Narrator: Shellie Morris
Artwork Special Thanks to Aunty Denise Quall for her Welcome to Country and allowing us to use her artwork in the Welcome.
Interviewees
Ken Conway
Nicky Fearn
Cj Fraser-Bell
Donna Jackson
Haneen Martin
David McMicken
Betchay Mondragon
Nyasha Ogden
Sean Pardy
Tom Pauling
Bong Ramilo
Jane Tonkin
Voice actors
Tom Pauling
Oral History
Albert Chan interviewed by Diana Giese in 1992 as part of the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project. Courtesy National Library of Australia.
App produced and developed by Maitree
Senior Producer Peta Khan
Artwork Denise Quall
Script Writing Alyson Evans
Archival Curation Support Jenelle Saunders
Additional Graphic Design Cj Fraser-Bell
Sound Design: Gaia Osbourne
Audio recordist Leigh Bramall
App Development Project Manager Yi Kai Chew
UX Designer
Woon Jing Khoo
UI Designer
Woon Jing Khoo
Jacqueline Koo
2D Animator
Yukiko
3D Modeller & Animator Joanne Lee
Creative Technologist Jacqueline Koo
Steven Voon
RESEARCH
Chung Wah Society and the NT Chinese Museum
Library and Archives of the Northern Territory
National Archives of Australia
National Film and Sound Archives
Rich, Jenny (1988) Brown’s Mart, Darwin: A History, Darwin, Brown’s Mart Trustees
Saltwater People, Larrakia stories from around Darwin (2001) Larrakia Nation
State Library of South Australia
Photo 1: Gwalwa Daraniki
Attribution: Day, Bill. (1972, July 14) Protesters on iron ore stack. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/312210.
Description: Gwalwa Daraniki means "our land" in Larrakia dialect. Protesters on iron ore stack. Left to right: Bob Secretary; Fred Waters; Bill Parry; Keith Chulung.
Photo 2: Larrakia Petition
Attribution: Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. NAA: A2354, 1/8/75/22
Description: The fragile 3.3 metre Larrakia petition contains the signatures and thumbprints of protesters calling for Aboriginal land rights in 1972.
Photo 3: Larrakia Flag November in 1971
Attribution: Day, Bill. (1971) Larrakia Flag November in 1971. Retrieved from Dr Bill Day’s website: http://www.drbilldayanthropologist.com/larrakia-petition.php
Description: The hand sewn Larrakia flag in November 1972 used for the first flag raising ceremony at the Darwin Courts.
Photo 4: Larrakia Petition
Attribution: Day, Bill. (1972) Larrakia Petition. Retrieved from Dr Bill Day’s website: http://www.drbilldayanthropologist.com/resources/LARRAKIA%20FLAG%20HISTORY.pdf
Description: Tessa Ferguson and Edwin Jangalaros presenting the Larrakia petition outside Government House, Darwin.
Photo 5: Larrakia Map
Attribution: Larrakia Nation (2022) The Larrakia people. Retrieved from Larrakia nation website: http://larrakia.com/about/the-larrakia-people/
Description: Map of Larrakia country.
Photo 6: Early engraving of Larrakia
Attribution: Larrakia Nation (2022) The Larrakia people. Retrieved from Larrakia nation website: http://larrakia.com/about/the-larrakia-people/
Note: Efforts have been made to source original photograph.
Photo 7: A Macassan prau
Attribution: The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. From "The Maccassar Story" Hercus, L & Sutton, P (eds), This is What Happened, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986, p 122. Courtesy of the artist's family, Museum of Victoria, and Mrs D.M.Thomson; from the Donald Thomson collection, on loan to the Museum of Victoria, from the University of Melbourne. http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/library/media/Image/id/13
Photo 8: Larrakia on Dinah Beach 1890
Attribution: McInerney, J. J (1890) Darwin Collection, State Library South Australia
Description: Dinah Beach - N.T. Aborigines grouped on the beach. Stokes Hill in background.
Photo 9: Planting the first telegraph pole
Attribution: Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886. (1870, September 15) Planting the first telegraph pole. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/735982.
Description: Planting the first telegraph pole, near Palmerston. Among those present were: Mr Palmer, Mr Burton, Dr Furnell, Dr Millner, D.D. Daly, Miss Douglas, Mr & Mrs William Trevett Dalwood, Willie Douglas, A.T. Childs, Captain & Mrs Douglas, F.W. Dalwood, Miss Douglas, W. McMinn, Miss B. Douglas, Mr James Darwent, J. McKinlay, Mr Grey, Mr E. Holthouse, Mr Davis, Mr Paquelin. Time: 3:00 pm. The photographer (Samuel Sweet) was the Master of the GULNARE which had brought the OT contractor Darwent and Dalwood and their men and materials to Darwin.
Photo 10: Goyder survey expedition 1869
Attribution: Brooks, Joseph. (1869) Expedition team. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/717541.
Description: Stereoscope photographs taken during the Goyder survey expedition (1869-1870).
Photo 11: The Camp, Port Darwin 1872
Attribution: Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886. (1872) The Camp, Port Darwin. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/483263.
Description: Photo taken in 1872 of the settlers camp in Port Darwin showing tents and corrugated iron sheds.
Photo 12: Larrakia Nation NAIDOC March (2022)
Attribution: Photo courtesy of Larrakia Nation: https://www.facebook.com/larrakianation/posts/pfbid02sDQ1skJSiEE3Gua5paxXjGZMK95EejttEoMi1b7WUSmeMWLXy49FjrNjetmu4ipCl
Photo 13: Larrakia Nation delivering masks to members
Attribution: Courtesy of Larrakia Nation https://larrakia.com/delivering-masks-for-our-members/
Photo 14: Larrakia Marine Rangers
Attribution: Courtesy of Larrakia Nation http://larrakia.com/services/larrakia-rangers/
Photo 15: Senior Larrakia Donna Jackson
Attribution: Courtesy of Donna Jackson
Photo 16: Kenbi Dancers at the Kenbi Land Claim Handover (2016)
Attribution: Ritchie, David, 1954-. (2016, June 21) Kenbi dancers. Retrieved 2022, July 27, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/398797.
Description: Photographs of the Kenbi Handover 2016, the resolution of the 37 year Kenbi Land Claim over the Cox Peninsula. The handback, presided over by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, took place at Mandorah on 21 June 2016 and was attended by many of the people who had worked on, or been involved in the landclaim processes.
Photo 1: Vaiben Solomon (1898)
Attribution: Official album of the Australasian Federal Convention (Melbourne, 1898). National Library of Australia
Photo 2: Mitchell St looking north west (1876)
Attribution: Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914. (1876) Mitchell Street. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/452665.
Description: MS in brown ink on mount "Mitchell St. 1876". View looking north-west along Mitchell Street from The Esplanade with "Core & Co" premises at right.
Photo 3: Palmerston Town Hall with Brown’s Mart in background (late 1880s)
Attribution: Palmerston Town Hall. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/741076.
Description: Palmerston Town Hall and Browns Mart, late 1880s, showing also the ES&A bank.
Photo 4: Solomon’s Emporium
Attribution: V.L. Solomons. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/314123.
Description: V.L. Solomon's (Brown's Mart). Man standing in doorway.
Photo 5: First Business Advertisement by V L Solomon and Co at the Mart
Attribution: Northern Territory Times 4th July 1885 (Trove)
Photo 6: 1897 Cyclone damage in Darwin
Attribution: Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914. (1897, January 7) Cyclone. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/309731.
Description: Cyclone 6th/7th January 1897. Port Darwin Mining Agency Store. Stone building unroofed and structurally damaged. Now (2014) Brown's Mart.
Photo 7: Chinese man resting in Darwin 1921
Attribution: (1921) Chinese man resting. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/749146.
Photo 8: Chinese shops Cavenagh St 1915
Attribution: (1915) Shops, Chinatown. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/721644.
Photo 9: Chinese market garden (1883)
Attribution: Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914. (1883, September 1) Hospital. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/719853.
Description: Hospital and Chinese garden looking over Doctor's Gully and Peel's Well.
Photo 10: Chinese lion dance (1923)
Attribution: (1923) Chinese lion. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/750750.
Chinese lion used in Chinese New Year procession.
Photo 11: Three women in traditional Chinese costume (1923)
Attribution: (1923) Three women in traditional Chinese costume. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/438701.
Photo 12: Browns Mart Mining Exchange (1888)
Attribution: Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914. (1888) Mann Brown's Building. Retrieved 2022, June 20, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/733850.
Description: Mann Brown's Building, Mining Exchange. On the windows: Port Darwin Mercantile and Agency Co. Auctioneers, Commission Agents Importers and Shipping Agents. Seven men and a dog standing outside. This building was built in 1885, later became a Police Headquarters, then a theatre called Brown's Mart.
Photo 13: Victor Voules Brown (1906)
Attribution: Victor Voules Brown (1906) Brown's Family Papers, Mortlock Library
Photo 14: WWII Bombing of Darwin Harbour (1942)
Attribution: (1942, February 19) Neptuna and Barossa on fire. Retrieved 2022, July 24, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/718462.
Description: The ships Neptuna and Barossa after being bombed by the Japanese in Darwin harbour, 1942.
Photo 15: WWII Nurses and soldiers in Darwin (1942)
Attribution: (1942) Nurses and soldiers. Retrieved 2022, July 27, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/331449.
Description: Nurses travelling by truck from quarters to Army Hospital in tents after moving from Darwin after bombing.
Photo 1: Newspaper article “Wanted: A decision on Brown’s Mart” (1969)
Attribution: Courtesy Ken Conway
Photo 2: The Legend of Katherina and Lysistrata - Poster
Attribution: Courtesy Brown’s Mart Archives
Photo 3: Newspaper article “Ken Conway is Darwin’s first arts director” (1972)
Attribution: Courtesy Ken Conway
Photo 4: Ken Conway inside Browns Mart (1976)
Attribution: Butcher, John, (John Ronald), 1944-. (1976, February 26) Browns Mart. Retrieved 2022, July 24, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/737614.
Description: Browns Mart. Ken Conway arranging new seating.
Photo 5: Darwin Theatre Group. "We can't pay? We won't pay" (1982)
Attribution: (1982, September 1) Actors. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/741328.
Video 6: ABC Video Montage for Brown’s Mart’s 40th Celebrations (2012)
Attribution: Courtesy ABC Darwin
Photo 7: Browns Mart after Cyclone Tracy (1974)
Attribution: Wesley-Smith, Rob. (1974, December 25) Browns Mart after Cyclone Tracy. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/323216.
Photo 8: Cyclone Tracy damage in Fannie Bay
Attribution: (1974) Cyclone Tracy damage in Fannie Bay. Retrieved 2022, July 24, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/310165.
Photo 9: Car upside down after Cyclone Tracey
Attribution: Dixon, Albert A. (1974) Chan building after cyclone. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/727437.
Photo 10: View from Brown’s Mart to Town Hall in ruins after Cyclone Tracey
Attribution: Butcher, John, (John Ronald), 1944-. (1974) Browns Mart. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/737620.
Photo 11: Ken Conway, Brown’s Marts first community arts officer
Attribution: Courtesy Brown’s Mart Archives
Photo 12: Original sketch for staging ideas
Attribution: Courtesy Brown’s Mart Archives
Photo 13: Rebuilding the roof (1975)
Attribution: (1975, February 26) Brown's Mart. Retrieved 2022, July 24, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/739965.
Description: Brown's Mart showing cyclone damage 1975
Video 1: ABC Video Montage for Brown’s Mart’s 40th Celebrations (2012)
Attribution: Courtesy ABC Darwin
Photo 2: Actors in rehearsals post Cyclone Tracey
Butcher, John, (John Ronald), 1944-. Browns Mart. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/733257.
Photo 3: Brown’s Mart banners for Drumming Up (1896)
Armour, Jenny, 1940-. (1986) Banners. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/311834.
Description: Drumming up Darwin, a Brown's Mart Community Arts Project Multicultural music and performing event, Series of 25 photographs. Brown's Mart Banner.
Photo 4: Drumming Up Program at Brown’s Mart
Armour, Jenny, 1940-. (1986) Drums. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/312544.
Drumming up Darwin, a Brown's Mart Community Arts Project Multicultural music and performing event, Series of 25 photographs. Aboriginal boys from Arnhemland waiting to perform.
Photo 5: Brown’s Mart children’s show (Date not specified)
Butcher, John, (John Ronald), 1944-. Browns Mart. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/732603.
Photo 6: Tracks show Ngapa at Browns Mart with Lajamanu performers (1996)
Attribution: Photo by Yoris Wilson. Courtesy of Tracks Dance.
Photo 7: Tracks crew collaborating with Lajamanu young people (1988)
Attribution: Courtesy of Tracks Dance. 1988 LII UK 0003
Photo 8: Tracks performance Thru Moves at Brown’s Mart (1990)
Attribution: Courtesy of Tracks Dance. 90 Thru Moves 2
Photo 9: Brown’s Mart’s office in 1996
Attribution : Still frame from ABC Montage video for Tracks 40th Celebrations. Courtesy ABC.
Photo 10: Theatre troupe at Brown’s Mart (Date unknown)
Attribution: Brown’s Mart Archives
Photo 11: Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre Float (1986)
Attribution: Armour, Jenny, 1940-. (1986) Float. Retrieved 2022, July 21, from https://hdl.handle.net/10070/312153.
Description: Drumming up Darwin, a Brown's Mart Community Arts Project Multicultural music and performing event, Series of 25 photographs. Preparing the float. L-R Nicholls, Guy; Holleley, Chris 'Pugsley'; Suttor, Tony. Puppets on truck made by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre. Old Produce Market.
Photo 12: Poster for Banyan Balance show in 1985 by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre
Attribution: Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre
Video 1: Welcome to Brown’s Mart 2022
Attribution: Brown’s Mart Archives
Description: Welcome to Brown’s Mart 2022 show reel, featuring shows presented at and by Brown’s Mart.
Photo 1: Nyasha in Cusp
Attribution: Nyasha Ogden in Cusp by Mary Anne Butler at Brown’s Mart 2019. Photo by Paz Tassone
Description: Nyasha crouching in a circle of red earth on the Brown’s Mart Theatre floor.
Photo 2:Jarradah Gooragulli - Dance of the Brolgas
Attribution: Ethan Kiara and Wendy in Jarradah Gooragulli - Dance of the Brolgas, 2022. By Cathy Mills, co-written by Jada Alberts. Photo by Paz Tassone
Description: Performers in Jarradah Gooragulli - Dance of the Brolgas in front of a huge projection screen, with video of Country.
Photo 3: New Babylon
Attribution: Merlynn Tong in New Babylon by Stephen Carlton, 2021. Photo by Charlie Bliss.
Description: Merlynn plays to the audience in Carlton’s lavish dystopian Cli-Fi.
Photo 4: HUSH
Attribution: Brown’s Mart Archive 2022, Photo by Charlie Bliss
Description: Stevie Jean and Clementine Anderson in HUSH by Ciella Williams with New Ghosts Theatre Company.
Photo 5: Live on Fridays
Attribution: Brown’s Mart Archive
Photo 6: New Babylon
Attribution: Nicki Fearn in New Babylon by Stephen Carlton, 2021. Photo by Charlie Bliss.
Photo 7
Attribution: ATYP fresh ink workshop at Brown’s Mart 2021
Photo 8: Warming Up
Attribution: Kiara Malcolm in rehearsals with Gary Lang for Jarradah Gooragulli - Dance of the Brolgas, 2022. Photo by Charlie Bliss
Description: Taken in the first movement development and rehearsal for Jarradah Gooragulli - Dance of the Brolgas.
Photo 9: Mess of a Mudra
development showing of Mess of a Mudra with Venaska Cheliah and Jess Deveraux, 2021. Photo by Jacob Hazeldine
Photo 10:
Musician Serina Pech sound designing for The Hypotheticals in development at Brown’s Mart 2021, Photo by Cj Fraser-Bell
Photo 11
Jeffrey Jay-Fowler and Sarah Reuben in development for The Hypotheticals at Brown’s Mart 2022. Photo by Cj Fraser-Bell
Photo 12 years of Art
Attribution: SPUN - Turning 50 at Brown’s Mart, 2022. Photo by Duane Preston.
Description: Audience filtering in for Brown’s Mart’s Spun - Turning 50 event.
Photo 13:
Attribution: Photo of Brown’s Mart by Bethany Nolin, 2014
Photo 14
Attribution: Brown’s Mart Archive
Description: 2022 Welcome artwork
Photo 14: The Messenger
Attribution: The Messenger Adapted by Ross Mueller, from the Novel by Markus Zusak. Directed by Merrilee Mills, Starring:
Description: Closing Moments of the Messenger as part of Brown’s Mart’s Education Program, 2022.
This project was delivered with Maitree
The Brown's Mart Welcome Tour is sponsored by the Northern Territory Government
Elements of the Brown's Mart Welcome Tour were funded through the Regional Arts Fund's Cultural Accelerator Program
Brown's Mart Arts Ltd
(T/as Brown’s Mart)
ABN: 67 141 763 895
Address
12 Smith Street Darwin City
GPO Box 3451, Darwin NT 0801
admin@brownsmart.com.au
