Aboriginal Fine Art

Tribe: Warlpiri

Area: Yuendemu, Northern Territory

Born: circa 1958

Biography:

Dorothy Napangardi was born in Mina Mina, a sacred and remote area of the Tanami Desert. She is renowned for her ‘Women’s Dreaming’ depictions, of her father’s homeland at Lake Mackay. Dorothy has established herself as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, with a unique and distinctive style.
Dorothy depicts a topographic view of her homeland with fine lines representing salt lakes around dry clay pans. These stories also depict the ancestral tracks. She has been painting since 1987.

Awards:

2001 - 1st Prize,118th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory

Collections:

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
The Kaplan-Levi Collection, Seattle, U.S.A..
The Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
The Erskine Collection
The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
The Australia Council Collection, Sydney
South Australian Festival Centre Foundation, Adelaide
The Homesglen Institute of TAFE Collection, Victoria