'Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa', 2005, acrylic on linen, 122 x122 cm
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'Mina Mina', 2005, acrylic on linen, 91 x 91 cm
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CONFLUENCE OF SONG LINES
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The serenely beautiful works of Dorothy Napangardi
merge minimalism with stories of Warlpiri Women's Dreamings
in ways that reverberate across the broad domain of visual
language in abstract painting. Profile by Marie Geissler.
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| Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi Warlpiri, from the desert country of Central Australia, has achieved in her late fifties an enviable success as a contemporary artist. In addition to her solo retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (December, 2002) and a number of highly successful shows in America, her work is held in major collections in Australia, Europe and the US. Over the past few years she has engaged in printmaking and recently presented a solo show of her work at Gallery Gondwana in Sydney.
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Napangardi is noted for visually spectacular canvases of Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa, which focus on a number of Women's Dreamings passed down to her from sisters on her fathers side. They are paintings informed by her ancestral relationship to the land and her conceptual geographic view of its most prominent ceremonial sites.
Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa is one of the most significant Warlpiri Women's Dreamings, which holds that members of the clan are inseparably linked to the environment. It embodies the rituals, ceremonial dancing and songs
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'Mina Mina', 2006, acrylic on linen, 168 x 244 cm
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