Northern Editions in collaboration with Gallery Gondwana presents Dorothy Napangardi: etchings and screenprints 2001-2006. This exhibition brings together 20 etchings and screenprints by Dorothy Napangardi produced over a period of five years. It is the first time such a comprehensive group of Dorothy’s prints have been exhibited.
Dorothy Napangardi is considered to be Gallery Gondwana’s ‘most experimental artist’. She was born in the early 1950s and is a Walpiri woman from Mina Mina, a significant women’s site in a remote area of the Northern Territory located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu.
Dorothy has been painting since 1987 and has won several major prizes including the 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2001. Her work was honoured with a major survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2002.
Dorothy’s prints reflect her strong cultural and ancestral ties to the land. With a focus on the Women’s Jukurrpa (Dreaming), these works follow the long journeys of Women Ancestors from Mina Mina. Carrying their digging sticks, the women walk and dance, visiting many significant sites, staying in some places to rest, going underground and later re-emerging.
The etchings and screenprints in the exhibition are the result of a several different collaborative print exchanges involving the artist and Master Printers from three major print publishers including renowned American print publisher Crown Point Press, Melbourne’s Port Jackson Press, and Northern Editions at Charles Darwin University.
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