This year’s fair will include a booth dedicated solely to First Nations Australian art, from bark paintings to works by Emily Kam Kngwarray.
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. It was here that ...
Common symbols include straight lines, dots, concentric circles ... Message sticks and other forms of Aboriginal graphic expressions, such as rock art and carvings (petroglyphs) challenge this ...