DOROTHY NAPANGARDI ROBINSON c. THE PAINTING TITLE: MINA MINA SIZE:90 X 90 CM + BORDER MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON CANVAS. PAINTING COMES WITH COA AND 9 PROGRESSIVE WORKING PHOTOS + 2 OF THE ARTIST SIGNING AND HOLDING THE PAINTING. TOP QUALITY CANVAS AND PAINTED WITH ARTIST PAINT. Dorothy Napangardi born c. She was one of around 3,000 Warlpiri speakers who lived in or are originally from the Tanami Desert region of Central Australia. Dorothy Napangardi was an Indigenous Australian, bornc. She had little formal schooling, but was instructed in the historic Dreaming of her people. Dreaming’ is an imprecise English translation of the Warlpiri word’Jukurrpa’, which describes the origins and journeys of ancestral beings in the land, and identies the sacred places where the spirits reside. The Jukurrpa theme, generally, is one of the inseparability of the self from the environment and usually includes travelling across the land. These are notions than can also be found in Napangardi’s art, with its profusion of intersecting lines suggesting spiritual meaning and evocative depth. In the words of a Warlpiri speaker quoted in a catalogue of Napangardis work: To me, Dorothys work is like Yapa (people) running through and across their country, moving across their pathways when they go travelling. A highly informative catalogue,’Dancing Up Country. The Art of Dorothy Napangardi’, was published in 2002 in conjunction with a major exhibition of her paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In it, Aboriginal art expert Christine Nicholls writes that Dorothy Napangardis success as an artist lies in her ability to evoke a strong sense of movement on her canvases, an effect she achieves because of her remarkable spatial sense and compositional ability… [Her work] can be appreciated on multiple levels, though indigenous commentators tend to see painting as a stage for human activity, rather than seeing the geometric aspects of the work. In 2001 Napangardi won rst prize in the 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her work Salt on Mina Mina, after winning lesser prizes in the same festival in 1991 and 1999. She has had many exhibitions in Australia and was shown in 2001 at the Sammlung Essl Museum in Vienna, Austria. In 2004 US-based Crown Point Press published a series of her prints and exhibited her paintings and prints in its gallery in San Francisco. The Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco exhibited her paintings in 2005. Napangardis work is found in many museums and collections worldwide, such as: the Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, USA; the Kaplan-Levi Collection, Seattle, USA; the Vroom Collection, The Netherlands; the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. She is represented by Gallery Gondwana in Alice Springs and Sydney. She lives and works in Alice Springs. She no longer paints Bush Plum Dreaming, and focused on painting her country, Mina Mina, where she used a more subdued palette leaning more towards the impact of contrasts to clarify and draw attention to her elaborate interlocking of patterns, yet without any traditional iconography from her family lines. Her unique depictions of ancient descriptions of her homeland, has won her acclaim as a fine artist of distinction, in a genre of cutting edge Aboriginal artists. 1991 – 8th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin, N. 1998 – Walpiri Women, Gallery Gonwanda, Alice Springs, N. 1998 Napangardi Dreaming Ceremony & Song Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW. T Art Award, Alice Springs, N. 1998 – 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award, Australia. 1999 Treading Softly, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, A. 1999 Painting The Desert, Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra, A. 1999 Recent works by Dororthy Napangardi & Walala Tjapaltjarri, Vivian Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. 1999 Recent works by Dorothy Napangardi, Chapman Gallery, A. 1999 The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, N. 1999 My Country Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indiginous Art, Cairns, Qld. Dec, 2002 Mar, 2003 Dancing Up Country: the work of Dorothy Napangardi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, N. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N. Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany. The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica , U. The Kaplan Levi Collection, Seattle, U. The Vroom Collection, The Netherlands. The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, W. The Erskine Collection, N. The Australian Council Collection, Sydney, N. The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. The Holmesglen Institute of Tafe Collection, Melbourne, Vic. 1991 Best Painting in European Media, 1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin. 1998 Northern Territory Art Award, Alice Springs, N. 1998 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, N. 1999 Highly Commended, 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, N. 1999 The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, N. 2001 First Prize, 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award. 2002 Australias 50 Most Collectable Artists. Australian Art Collector Magazine. The item “ABORIGINAL PAINTING DOROTHY NAPANGARDI TOP RENOWN ARTIST COA AND PHOTO 90X90 CM” is in sale since Saturday, September 13, 2014. This item is in the category “Art\Aboriginal\Paintings”. The seller is “dreamart82″ and is located in South Australia. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Features: Signed
• Region of Origin: Australia
• Listed By: Dealer
• Subject: MINA MINA HIGHLY COLLECTABLE
• Dimensions: 90 X 90 CM
• Era: 2000s
• Originality: Original
• Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
• Colour: White
• Medium: Acrylic
• Artist Name: DOROTHY NAPANGARDI ROBINSON (c.1958-2013)
• Date of Creation: 2000-Now
• Artist: Dorothy Napangardi
• Style: Desert Art
• Signed: Signed + 9 PROGRESSIVE PHOTOS
• Aboriginal Art Region: Utopia
• Original/Reproduction: Original