PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Halls Creek, Catalogue Number 1115/02
Napanangka was a respected senior custodian with a vast knowledge of
the waterholes in the Great Sandy Desert and began painting in 1989.
Her early works followed
standard Balgo methods of forming lines by means of rows of dotting and of
outlining icons in a similar way. A quietly creative artist, she then moved
to another technique using single colour fields of dotting, later going on
to a next step of painting her dots so closely together that they converged,
creating dense masses of pigment on the surface of the canvas.
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA
