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Dorothy Napangardi
Bornc.1950s
Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), Western Australia
Died(2013-06-01)1 June 2013
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting
Notable workSalt on Mina Mina (2001)
Movementcontemporary Indigenous Australian art
AwardsWinner, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: 2001

Dorothy Napangardi (born early 1950s – 1 June 2013) was a Warlpiri speaking contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Tanami Desert and who worked in Alice Springs.

Life

Dorothy Napangardi was the daughter of

kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people. These names define kinship relationships that influence preferred marriage partners and may be associated with particular totems. Although they may be used as terms of address, they are not surnames in the sense used by Europeans.[3][4]
Thus 'Dorothy' is the element of the artist's name that is specifically hers.

She grew up in the settlement town of

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 identifies 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 Napangardi’s work: "To me, Dorothy’s work is like Yapa (people) running through and across their country, moving across their pathways when they go travelling."

Napangardi was killed in a car accident on 1 June 2013.[7]

Art

Background

The

outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.[10] In this context, in Alice Springs, Dorothy Napangardi began to learn alongside Polly Watson Napangardi, Margaret Lewis and Eunice Napangardi.[6]

Career

Satellite photograph of an irregularly-shaped body of water, containing numerous small islands, and surrounded by red land marked by numerous parallel lines.
Lake Mackay in central Australia, where Dorothy Napangardi was born.

In 2001 Napangardi won first 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 had many exhibitions in

Emily Kngwarreye.[14]

Internationally, 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 a solo exhibition in 2005. She was included in a range of group shows, including in 2001 at the Sammlung Essl Museum in Vienna, Austria.[5]

Napangardi’s work is found in many museums around the world, including the

Charlottesville, the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
.

She lived and worked in Alice Springs.

Legacy

A retrospective exhibition of Dorothy Napangardi's work, Dorothy Napangardi Retrospective: The art and life of Dorothy Napangardi (1952–2013), held at the Japingka Gallery (Perth, Western Australia) in 2020. The retrospective showed the artist’s journey towards the refined style of the later Mina Mina paintings that established her career as an outstanding artist. Thirty-six paintings and eleven limited edition prints were exhibited and available for sale.[19]

References

  1. ^ Fortescue, Elizabeth (3 June 2013). "Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi dies in car crash". Herald Sun online. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Dorothy Napangardi". Red Desert Gallery. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Kinship and skin names". People and culture. Central Land Council. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  4. ISBN 978-0-85575-234-7
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  5. ^ a b "Dorothy Napangardi – biography". fireworks gallery. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  6. ^ a b Napangardi, Dorothy. "Salt on Mina Mina 2001". The MAGNT National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) Collection. Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  7. ^ "Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi killed in car crash". ABC News. 3 June 2013.
  8. ISBN 978-0-522-85434-3
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  9. ^ Dussart, Francoise (2006). "Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement". Aboriginal History. 30: 156–168.
  10. ^
    ISBN 0-7148-3752-0
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  11. ^ Strocchi, Marina (2006). "Minyma Tjukurrpa: Kintore / Haasts Bluff Canvas Project: Dancing women to famous painters". Artlink. 26 (4): 104–107.
  12. ^ Museum of Contemporary Art (2002). Dancing up country: The art of Dorothy Napangardi. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art.
  13. ISBN 978-1-875632-82-4
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  14. ^ Crawford, Ashley (16 December 2003). "Basic black is Napangardi's style". The Age. p. 9.
  15. ^ "NGA collection: Dorothy Napangardi". artsearch.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  16. ^ "Dorothy Napangardi Robinson | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  17. ^ "Dorothy Robinson Napangardi". AGSA – Online Collection. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Dorothy Napangardi | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  19. ^ "Dorothy Napangardi". Japingka Aboriginal Art Gallery. Retrieved 21 April 2021.

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