Mina Mina - Dorothy Robinson Napangardi

Dorothy Napangardi's paintings trace the travels of her female ancestors, the Karnta Kulangu, toward the east as they danced their way through the Mina Mina salt pans, Spinifex, and sand hills.

The lines of white dots represent the salt encrustations which form patterns on the mud flats mimicking the ebb and flow of their movement through this shimmering landscape.

Dorothy Napangardi was the winner of the 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2001 and in 2002 her solo exhibition Dancing Up Country was held at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.