Dot art is a technique practiced in Australia and other indigenous cultures across the world as a means for storytelling. This art form is now considered a calming and effective way to practise ...

A Northern Territory politician says teaching tourists to dot paint is cheapening Aboriginal art. The Member for MacDonnell, Alison Anderson, says Aboriginal art lessons at the Alice Springs Desert ...

Chances are, you said dots. But for Australian artist Brandi Salmon, she hopes to one day see a world where that’s no longer the automatic answer. This NAIDOC Week, Brandi is urging teachers to go ...

More than 200 coloured fit balls buried in the sand will recreate the Aboriginal dot painting Water Dreaming by artist Jangala 'Shorty' Robertson as part of this year's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition ...

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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.

In the 1970s a striking new art style, popularly known as dot painting, emerged from the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya. It was spearheaded by a small group of male artists, including Clifford ...