Artist: Dorothy Napangardi
Region: Yuendumu
DOB: C.1958
Painting SIZE : 161cm by 101cm
Painting colours :
Brown background with Ochre Yellow Dotes
Painting comes with COA photos of Dorothy holding and signing her painting and on cd & 16 working photo's of dorothy painting.
Dorothy Napangardi is 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. Her finely painted minimal depictions of 'Women's Dreaming on the Mina Mina' have deservedly won her critical and popular acclaim.
Regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, she paints her father's homeland at Lake McKay. She won first prize in the 18th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2001. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, the National Gallery of Victoria, and The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
EXHIBITIONS 2003 'Collectors Show', Gallery Gondwana at The Depot Gallery, Sydney NSW 2003 'Dancing Up Country; the work of Dorothy Napangardi'. Asia Tour. Asialink in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art tour to Vietnam Fine Art Museum in Hanoi and the National Art Gallery, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 2002-2003 'Dancing up Country: the work of Dorothy Napangardi', Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)- Level 4 Galleries 140 George Street The Rocks Sydney, Australia 2003 Dorothy Napangardi New Paintings Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 2002 'One Mother', Dorothy Napangardi and Sabrina Nangala, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs 2002 'Native Title Business - Contemporary Indigenous Art 'National Travelling Exhibition, Gurang Land Council (Aboriginal Corporation), QLD, Australia. 2002 Indecorous Abstraction - Contemporary Women Painters, Light Sq. Gallery AIT ARTS Adelaide,SA., Australia 2002 Melbourne ArtFair 2002, Melbourne, Australia 2002-03 'Dancing Up Country; the work of Dorothy Napangardi' - Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney, NSW Australia 2002 'Kana-kurlangu' Dorothy Napangardi - Gallery Gondwana at The Depot Gallery, Sydney NSW 2001 'alice.fitzroy@af', Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy,A.C.T.2001 'Country After Rain', Framed Gallery - The Darwin Gallery, Darwin, N.T. 2001 ' Dreamtime - The Light and the Dark', Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria 2001 'Mina Mina', Solo, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs Australia 2001 '18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award', Darwin, Australia 2001 'Masterwork', Viveien Anderson Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2001 'Dorothy Napanagardi, New Paintings', Vivien Anderson Gallery, Victoria Australia 2000 'Dorothy Napangardi and Walala Tjapaltjarri, Adelaide Festival, Gallery Australis, S.A. 2000 'Dorothy Napangardi', Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 2000 'Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award', Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra 2000-01 'The Art of Place Exhibition', Australian Heritage Commission, Old Parliament House, Canberra 2000 'Songlines: Walala Tjapaltjarri & Dorothy Napangardi', Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London. 2000 '17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award', Darwin, 2000 'Melbourne ArtFair 2000', Melbourne, Australia 2000 Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne 1999 ' Treading Softly', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, A.C.T. 1999 'Painting the Desert', Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy. 1999 'Recent works by Dorothy Napangardi and Walala Tjapaltjarri', Vivian Anderson Gallery, Melbourne. 1999 'Recent works by Dorothy Napangardi', Chapman Gallery, A.C.T. 1999 '16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award', Darwin, N.T. 1999 'The Redlands Westpac Art Prize', Mosman Art Gallery NSW 1999 'My Country - Journey of our Ancestors', Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, QLD. 1998 'Warlpiri Women' , Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, N.T. 1998 'Napangardi Dreaming - Ceremony and Song', Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1998 N.T. Art Award, Alice Springs, N.T. 1998 '15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award', Australia 1991 '8th National Aboriginal Art Award', Darwin. N.T.
COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin. Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany. The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A. The Kaplan-Levi Collection, Seattle, U.S.A. The Vroom Collection, The Netherlands The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia The Erskine Collection, NSW, Australia The Australia Council Collection, Sydney, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Australia The Homesglen Institute of TAFE Collection, Victoria, Australia
AWARDS 2001 First Prize, 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award 1999 Highly Commended, 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, N.T. 1998 Northern Territory Art Award, Alice Springs, N.T. 1991 Best Painting in European Media, 8th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin, Australia |