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DOROTHY
NAPANGARDI is a Warlpiri woman born in the early 1950s at Mina
Mina, west of Mt Doreen and Yuendumu in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Living for the greater part in Alice Springs, Dorothy began painting generic
‘bush tucker’ designs in 1987. Working outside of art community
pressures and politics allowed Dorothy to experiment with painting formats
and explore new directions. Such developments throughout the 1990s, along
with pilgrimages back into her heartland, undoubtedly sponsored a re-focus
on the forms and structures of her jukurrpa and stories associated
with Mina Mina. This culminated into the distinctive grid-patterned designs
that Dorothy is now so widely recognised for including Salt Pan images
and Digging Stick Dreaming
(Kana-kurlangu).
In 2001 Dorothy won the coveted Telstra National Indigenous Art
Award for a black and white work Salt on Mina Mina. In 2002 Dorothy was
presented a major survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Today, Dorothy still resides in Alice Springs where she paints full time
in her own studio . Her most recent paintings depict elaborate and elegant
interpretations of country including concentrations of finely veiled grids
over predominantly white or black grounds.
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