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Dorothy Napangardi was an Aboriginal Australian artist connected with Warlpiri and Pintupi cultures. Born in the Mina Mina region of the Tanami Desert, she died in 2013. She began painting in Alice Springs in 1987. Her early compositions included desert plants and bush foods, before her visual language developed into networks of dots and lines, often organised within a black and white palette.
These structures evoke the Country of Mina Mina and ancestral journeys associated with women’s Jukurrpa. Their rhythms convey an experience of place in which topography, memory and cultural transmission are intertwined. Napangardi won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2001. She also made prints, collaborating with specialist workshops to extend her investigations of movement and the passage of the eye across an image.
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Dobiaschofsky
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Acrylic on canvas
"Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women's Dreaming)".
Acryl auf Lwd.
Catalogue period : 2022-05-06
Published result : 1900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2200
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