'Mina Mina' by Dorothy Napangardi Robinson
Born: c.1958
Region: Alice Springs - Northern Territory
Language Group: Warlpiri
Dorothy Napangardi is a Walpiri woman from Mina Mina, a highly significant sacred site in one of the most remote areas of Australia. Regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, she paints her father’s homeland at Lake McKay. Creating her own unique language to describe these homelands, Dorothy’s paintings are shaped by an interlacing network of dotted lines. These lines form both a micro and a macro study of the land; creating the homeland topography while telling a story of the ancestral tracks. These lines represent the salt encrustations around the dry claypans etched with the tracks of the women. Dorothy has been painting since 1987. She has established her reputation with her distinctive style of painting winning her acclaim. She won first prize in the 18th Aboriginal and Torrens 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.
2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Art Gallery of Malaysia
2002-2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2002
Art Fair, Melbourne
Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2001
31st Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra
Old Parliament House, Canberra
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2000
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
Gallery Australis, Adelaide
Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1999
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
1998
15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
1991
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2001 -
First Prize, 18th NATSIAA
1999 - Highly Commended, 16th NATSIAA
1998 - First Prize, Northern Territory Art Award, Alice Springs
1991 - Best Painting in European Media
1991 - 8th National Aboriginal Art Award
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australia Council, Sydney
Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Kaplan Levi Collection, Seattle, USA
Richard Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Artbank, Sydney
Exhibition, award and collection information taken from: Birnber, M. & Kreczmanski, J.B. (2004) Aboriginal Artists: dictionary of bibliographies, J.B. Publishing, Australia.