DOROTHY NAPANGARDI

Language:  Walpiri
Region:  Yuendumu, Alice Springs

Date of Birth: c1958 (deceased June 2013)

Content: Dorothy painted the topography and ancestral tracks of her father’s homeland at Lake McKay in the Northern Territory.

Selected Collections:

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• Australian Council Sydney
• Queensland Museum, Brisbane
• Kaplan Levi Collection, Seattle, USA
• Richard Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
• Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
• Artbank, Sydney

Awards:

• 2001 First Prize 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory
• 1999 Highly Commended, 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory 
• 1998 Northern Territory Art Award, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
• 1991 Best Painting in European Media, 8th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory