Aboriginal communities, which historically had no written language, used dots as a visual storytelling method which convey sacred ancestral beings, the relationship between people and the land, and ...

When Shane Smithers was adding traditional symbols to his mural, commuters passing by asked him, "What are you doing?!" The Aboriginal artist says it's because he wasn't painting dots or concentric ...

TWO newly discovered Albert Namatjira works show that the master painter of outback scenes also produced art in the modern dot-painting style more than 20 years earlier than the famed Papunya style.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ASK AMERICANS what they know about Australian art and their thoughts often turn to dot paintings, ochre colours and of course the ...

‘MADAYIN: EIGHT DECADES of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala” presents artworks that are largely unknown in the U.S. While recent decades have cast light on the “dot paintings” made by ...

Little did he know his Aboriginal dot paintings would lead to people across the nation wanting commissioned pieces. “I’m just blown away by the requests and they’re huge artworks too, I’m doing a ...

The main character in the British comedian's new TV series is seen frequently with the dot-painting in his living room. The production company behind a hit Netflix series will pay compensation for ...

Naminapu Maymuru-White and Daniel Boyd grew up hundreds of miles and a generation apart. Yet they share a goal: reframing the way we see the universe. By Keridwen Cornelius At Art Basel Hong Kong, two ...