Artist: Dorothy Napangardi | Title: Salt on Mina Mina | Year: 2005 | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | Dimensions: 122 x 76 cm
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Gallery Gondwana Cat No. 13486DN
Cooee Art Gallery, NSW
EXHIBITED
Black Art White Walls – The Anne and Adrian Newstead Collection
- Grace Cossington Smith Gallery January – March 2014
- Wagga Wagga Art Gallery April-June 2014
- Moree Plains Gallery January -May 2015
- Burrinja Gallery, Upwey, Victoria July-Sept 2015
- Counihan Gallery, Moreland, Victoria, October – November 2015
- Caloundra Regional Gallery Jan – February 2016
O Tempo Dos Sonhos – The Time of Dreaming
- CAIXAS Cultural in Brazil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Recife and - Fortaleza
- CASA FIAT DE CULTURA, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Museum of Art of Santa Catarina (MASC), Brazil
- Museum Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo, Mexico City, Mexico.
ARTWORK STORY
Dorothy Napangardi was a Walpiri woman from Mina Mina, a highly significant sacred site in one of the most remote areas of Australia; the Tanami Desert, north west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Her finely painted minimal depiction's of 'Women's Dreaming on the Mina Mina' have deservedly won her critical and popular acclaim.
Regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, she painted her father's homeland at Lake McKay. Creating her own unique language to describe these homelands, Dorothy's paintings are shaped by an interlacing network of dotted lines. These lines form both a micro and a macro study of the land; creating the homeland topography while telling a story of the ancestral tracks. These lines represent the salt encrustations around the dry clay pans etched with the tracks of the women.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Yuendumu, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Dorothy Napangardi spent her early childhood living a nomadic life at Mina Mina near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert during the late 1950s and early 1960s. She recalled camping at claypans and soakages with her mother, Jeanie Lewis Napururrla, learning to collect the plentiful bush tucker and grinding seeds for damper cooked on hot ashes… Continue reading
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Gallery Gondwana Cat No. 13486DN
Cooee Art Gallery, NSW
EXHIBITED
Black Art White Walls – The Anne and Adrian Newstead Collection
- Grace Cossington Smith Gallery January – March 2014
- Wagga Wagga Art Gallery April-June 2014
- Moree Plains Gallery January -May 2015
- Burrinja Gallery, Upwey, Victoria July-Sept 2015
- Counihan Gallery, Moreland, Victoria, October – November 2015
- Caloundra Regional Gallery Jan – February 2016
O Tempo Dos Sonhos – The Time of Dreaming
- CAIXAS Cultural in Brazil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Recife and - Fortaleza
- CASA FIAT DE CULTURA, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Museum of Art of Santa Catarina (MASC), Brazil
- Museum Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo, Mexico City, Mexico.
ARTWORK STORY
Dorothy Napangardi was a Walpiri woman from Mina Mina, a highly significant sacred site in one of the most remote areas of Australia; the Tanami Desert, north west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Her finely painted minimal depiction's of 'Women's Dreaming on the Mina Mina' have deservedly won her critical and popular acclaim.
Regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, she painted her father's homeland at Lake McKay. Creating her own unique language to describe these homelands, Dorothy's paintings are shaped by an interlacing network of dotted lines. These lines form both a micro and a macro study of the land; creating the homeland topography while telling a story of the ancestral tracks. These lines represent the salt encrustations around the dry clay pans etched with the tracks of the women.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Yuendumu, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Dorothy Napangardi spent her early childhood living a nomadic life at Mina Mina near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert during the late 1950s and early 1960s. She recalled camping at claypans and soakages with her mother, Jeanie Lewis Napururrla, learning to collect the plentiful bush tucker and grinding seeds for damper cooked on hot ashes… Continue reading
