Spinifex Country – (part of the ‘Etching Suite’), 2004 by Dorothy Napangardi

Title: Spinifex Country
(from the ‘Etching Suite’ – Spinifex Country, Salt, Sandhill Country)
Catalogue No: DN-16
Plates Created: 2004
Limited Edition: 50
Paper Size: 22.2 cm x 22.8 cm
Image Size: 12 cm x 10.1 cm
Medium: Colour aquatint with sugar lift aquatint
Plate: Dena Schuckit (master printer Crown Point Press)
& Belinda Fox (master printer Port Jackson Press)
Printer: National Art School, Sydney
Publisher: Crown Point Press

Known as ‘Etching Suite’ that incorporates three themes (Spinifex, Salt Country, Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa), each etching can be purchased individually.The artist has created striking designs depicting the ancestral women dancing across the country of Mina Mina across the terrain, around the soakage’s of Mina Mina and it’s crustations of salt; through the spinifex clumps and over the sand hills.

• Spinifex Country – DN-16
• Salt - DN-17
• Sandhill Country - DN-18