Mina Mina, 2004

91 x 122 cm

Est. $5,000 – $7,000

Hammer $4,500

Provenance: Gallery Gondwana, NT Metro Five Gallery, Vic Private Collection, Vic
Artwork story: When, in 1997, Dorothy began producing works which traced the grid-like patterns of the salt encrustations on the Mina Mina clay pans, it marked a significant artistic shift in her work. Over a three-year period, her paintings became less and less contrived and increasingly spare, all detail pared back to the barest essentials. In these new works, Dorothy began to explore the Women's Digging Sticks Dreaming and other stories related to the travels of the Karntakurlangu. As these works developed, her extraordinary spatial ability enabled her to create mimetic grids of the salt encrustations across the claypans of Mina Mina. The lines of white dots trace the travels of these ancestral women as they danced their way, in joyous exultation, through the saltpans, spinifex and sandhills, clutching their digging sticks in their outstretched hands, during the region's creation.

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Sale 1 · Lot 5

c.1950 / 1956 – 2013

91 x 122 cm

Est. $5,000 – $7,000

Hammer $4,500

Provenance: Gallery Gondwana, NT Metro Five Gallery, Vic Private Collection, Vic
Artwork story: When, in 1997, Dorothy began producing works which traced the grid-like patterns of the salt encrustations on the Mina Mina clay pans, it marked a significant artistic shift in her work. Over a three-year period, her paintings became less and less contrived and increasingly spare, all detail pared back to the barest essentials. In these new works, Dorothy began to explore the Women's Digging Sticks Dreaming and other stories related to the travels of the Karntakurlangu. As these works developed, her extraordinary spatial ability enabled her to create mimetic grids of the salt encrustations across the claypans of Mina Mina. The lines of white dots trace the travels of these ancestral women as they danced their way, in joyous exultation, through the saltpans, spinifex and sandhills, clutching their digging sticks in their outstretched hands, during the region's creation.