Dorothy Napangardi - Nomad Art

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Dorothy Napangardi is a Warlpiri woman from Mina Mina, a significant women’s site in a remote area of the Northern Territory. Her works have featured in exhibitions throughout Australia, the U.S.A. and Europe where she is regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement.

Dorothy’s paintings are highly sought after by both collectors and curators worldwide. In 1991 she won the Best Painting, 8th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award; in 1998 she was “Highly Commended” in the 16th National Aboriginal Art Award in 1999 and 2001 Dorothy won the Award with her spectacular black and white painting titled, “Salt on Mina Mina”.

Dorothy was first introduced to painting in 1987 by her friend and artist, Eunice Napangardi. She now paints her country, Mina Mina without any traditional iconography from her familial lines, creating her own innovative language to portray her country. Dorothy’s paintings are created by an intricate network of lines that collide and implode on top of each other creating a play of tension and expansion, transporting the viewer through a myriad of intersections. Her view is constantly changing: one painting giving an aerial perspective; the next as if she has placed a microscope to the ground. Dorothy now resides in Alice Springs where she paints full time in her own studio at Gallery Gondwana.