Australian Aboriginal dot paintings often use circular motifs to map out waterholes or gathering places, ... In Indigenous art, spirals often symbolize journeys—both physical and spiritual.

Ms Watson-Trudgett adds that dot-painting only emerged in the 1970s with the Western Desert art movement from Papunya, a small Aboriginal community northwest of Alice Springs.

The first major exhibition devoted to Aboriginal bark painting outside of Australia displays nearly 90 works to illuminate the continent’s indigenous cultures in new ways.

While the Papunya community became renowned for its dot paintings — one of the most famous styles of Indigenous Australian art — Tjapaltjarri created “Wallaby Sign for Men and Women ...

Dot Painting inspired by the Papunya Tula group, c. 2014. In the 1980s, groups like the controversial Papunya Tula cooperative went to great lengths to raise awareness of Aboriginal art – sometimes ...

According to dealer D’Lan Davidson, the market for indigenous Australian art experienced a recalibration following policy ...

Native Prospects, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, infuses the American landscape tradition with Indigenous perspective ...

Kngwarray (1910-96) was from Utopia, an Aboriginal community 250km north-east of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. Although she had produced textile designs on fabric since 1977 ...

The Indigenous souvenir trade is expected to boom as 1.5 million tourists arrive in Australia for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. But fake Aboriginal-style art exploits Indigenous culture and rips off ...

Australia’s oldest Indigenous-focused fine art gallery (Cooee Art) is now known as Art Leven, ushering in a new era for the gallery under the stewardship of long-term owner and director Mirri Leven.