Mina Mina (Memories of Country)

This work is featured on page 42 in the monograph: Honouring and Remembering the Art and Life of Dorothy Napangardi, 1987-2013

Along with every purchase we are offering a free copy of the book titled: Honouring And Remembering The Art And Life Of Dorothy Napangardi as this etching is in it.

Date: 2008
Catalogue No: DN-24
Limited Edition: 99
Image Size: 50 x 39 cm
Paper & size: Magnani pescia, 76 x 56 cm
Edition sequence: 3 colours – black/white/red ochre
Medium: Limited Edition Etching
Produced at: Silkscreen painted by Dorothy Napangardi at Basil Hall Editions in 2008

This screen print shows yet another development in the ever-evolving style of Dorothy Napangardi. As with all of this artist’s works, this painting revolves around the sacred site of Mina Mina, the land in the remote Tanami Desert of which Dorothy is custodial owner. Made up of two enormous soakage areas and endless sandhills, here Dorothy and her aunts ( Napanangkas ) perform rituals of dance and song as part of their passing on of Jukurrpa.

Using a myriad of coloured dots set against a black background Dorothy has created a shifting sea of wonderfully harmonious colour that gathers and disperses across the paper. Like the sandhills in constant flux around and through the artist’s country so too does this screen print move, backwards and forwards, the rippling effect produced so like that of the wind’s tracks in the sand.