Mina Mina My Country, c. 2008, Dorothy Napangardi
Acrylic on canvas, 123cm x 59cm
Provenance: Charleston’s Fine Art Auctions, Sydney.
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 Mackay. Dorothy has been painting since 1987 and her work is represented in numerous collections throughout Australia.
From the authenticity certificate: Creating her own unique language to describe her 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.