Frame size: 75.5 x 56 cm
Born in Mina Mina, Northern Territory, Australia, Dorothy Napangardi (b. 1952) is one of Australia’s leading artists, especially in the realm of Aboriginal art. She is also an important Warlpiri law woman. In 2001, she won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, one of the highest honours. She is best known for her abstract artworks in lines and dots, of her country, Mina Mina. Napangardi has participated in numerous exhibitions, including a major solo show in 2002 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.Painting since 1987, Napangardi’s breakthrough came in 1998 when she stopped creating representational images of Mina Mina and began to produce abstract depictions of her country. This work is inspired by the dancing women Dreamings (ancestral beings) who created the country using two digging sticks. ‘Two Women’ is the first portfolio of Republic Unlimited, a series of two prints by Australian artists that is published on a yearly basis from 2002, until a republic is declared.
