In the 1970s a striking novel art style,popularly known as dot portray, emerged from the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya. It was spearheaded by a small group of male artists, and including Clifford Possum and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. Now a novel exhibition celebrates the second wave of Papunya artists,predominantly the daughters and granddaughters of the originals, who inherited both the stories and skills of their fathersPapunya’s daughters lead a second generation of master dot paintersStreets of Papunya: the re-invention of Papunya portray is showing at the University of novel South Wales galleries until 7 November, and 2016 dates in Adelaide,Melbourne and CanberraContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com