Dorothy Napangardi
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About the Artist
Artwork is accompanied by Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu) Art Centre Certificate of Authenticity/Provenance
Dorothy Napangardi (c. 1950 – 2013) was 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 was regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement.
Dorothy was born in the early '50s and grew up at Mina Mina and in the community of Yuendumu where her father is still a senior lawman. She has five daughters (two of them artists) and four grandchildren who live in Yuendumu and Alice Springs. Dorothy sadly passed away suddenly in mid 2013.
Dorothy was first introduced to painting in 1987 by her friend and artist, Eunice Napangardi. She painted her country, Mina Mina without any traditional iconography from her familial lines, creating her own innovative language to portray her country. Dorothy's paintings were 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 was constantly changing: one painting giving an aerial perspective; the next as if she has placed a microscope to the ground.
Dorothy's paintings are highly sought after by both collectors and curators worldwide. In 1991 she won the Best Painting in European Media, 8th National Aboriginal Art Award; in 1998 the Northern Territory Art Award; and she was "Highly Commended" for the 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award in 1999. In 2001 Dorothy won the 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, presented by Telstra, with her spectacular black and white painting titled, "Salt on Mina Mina".
Dorothy's paintings adorn the walls of institutions such as The Australia Council; the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany and the Kelton Foundation in Santa Monica, USA.
Selected Awards
1991
• Museums and Art Galleries Award (Best painting in European media), National Aboriginal Art Award, Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin
1999
• Highly Commended, 16th NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin
2001
• First Prize, 18th NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin
Selected Collections
• Artbank, Sydney
• Art Gallery of South Australia
• Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
• Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• National Gallery of Victoria
• Queensland Museum
• South Australian Festival Centre Foundation
• The Australia Council Collection, Sydney
• The Erskine Collection, NSW
• The Homesglen Institute of TAFE Collection, Victoria
• The Kaplan-Levi Collection, Seattle, USA.
• The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, LA, USA.
• The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA
• The Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
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