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 ...

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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Originally an aboriginal form from Australia, dot painting involves creating patterns using dots of different sizes. Dot artworks are also practised by certain communities in Africa Like several ...

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 ...

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.

‘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 ...

Adrian Newstead was one of the first people to study climate change in Australia. "I went to a place called the Barren Grounds, which were down the New South Wales south coast down near Kangaroo ...

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 ...