129 x 41 cm Dorothy Napangardi
108 x 78 cm A highlight in the art calendar this year is the current 2018 Dorothy Napangardi retrospective exhibition at The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Walkabout: The Art of Dorothy Napangardi Walking becomes a rhythm that adjusts to each landscape we cross.
Dorothy Napangardi (born early 1950s – 1 June 2013) was a Warlpiri speaking contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Tanami Desert and who worked in Alice Springs.
122 x 76 cm These works gained in popularity, both in Australia and internationally, with Dorothy being awarded several national awards (AATSIA 1991, NTAA 1998, AATSIA 2001) and featuring in the Biennale in Sydney in 2012.
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They must also be read as the ancient epic travels of the Warlpiri ancestral women as they traversed across the desert country.
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DN-25, By Napangardi’s work is in the collections of several museums, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, and the Linden-Museum Stuttgart in Germany. 46 x 36 cm 13810DN, By 10046DN, By [9] By the 1980s and 1990s, such work was being exhibited internationally.
Dorothy Napangardi
152 x 122 cm Her paintings and prints have been widely exhibited and are in all national collections within Australia and in major collections worldwide including most recently the MET, New York. 56 x 76 cm 44 x 44 cm
91 x 31 cm
122 x 198 cm Dorothy Napangardi 8566DN, By In 2004 Crown Point Press published a series of her prints and exhibited her paintings and prints in its gallery in San Francisco.
DN-11, By 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.
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13830DN, By DN-20, By Code of Ethics 51 x 41 cm
8048DN, By DN-BH45-2008, By Privacy, 12 Harvey St, Alice Springs NT [7], The contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement began in the western desert in 1971, when Indigenous men at Papunya took up painting, led by elders such as Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, and assisted by teacher Geoffrey Bardon. Dorothy Napangardi [8] This initiative, which used acrylic paints to create designs representing body painting and ground sculptures, rapidly spread across Indigenous communities of central Australia, particularly following the commencement of a government-sanctioned art program in central Australia in 1983. 10174DN, By