Then, in December 2019, Sotheby’s held its first dedicated Australian Aboriginal art auction in New York, netting $2.8m from 29 lots, including $596,000 for a painting by market leader Kngwarreye.

White Australian artist is abused online for 'copying Aboriginal art' and 'stealing indigenous culture' by making traditional dot paintings. Tasmanian Jessica Poland sold Indigenous-style dot ...

Inspired by the powerful Australian landscape, contemporary aboriginal art is electrifying the mainstream art world with its exquisite silk and cotton batiks in ancient patterns, symbolic dot ...

This indigenous art, of course, had existed in various forms for most of the 40,000 years of Aboriginal life in Australia — it’s the oldest unbroken art tradition in the world. It just wasn ...

Aboriginal dot paintings have inspired Australian mathematicians to find a new way of seeing how building foundations fail. The researchers presented two images that visualise the behaviour of ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Aboriginal people have long found spiritual inspiration for their art. Phil Mercer explores how this tradition has become one of Australia’s most potent cultural and economic movements ...

Art sales are the main source of income in many of Australia’s remote communities. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists was founded in 2000 and its community art center was established as a way of tackling ...

A presentation on Australian aboriginal dot art, followed by an opportunity to try it, will be part of the activities Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Cultural Arts Day sponsored by ...