Newsfields newest edition of the Lume looks to showcase Art & Music from Indigenous Australians in Connection: Land, Water, ...

Australian Aboriginal dot paintings often use circular motifs to map out waterholes or gathering places, turning geometry into a visual map of country. The circle’s perfection—no beginning ...

Featuring bold geometric designs in earth tones, with characteristic circles, dots and wavy snakelike lines, Aboriginal acrylic painting appeals to Western collectors of both abstract and folk art.

Connection: Land, Water, Sky—Art & Music from Indigenous Australians,” which runs through February, also features eight ...

Fairy circles—barren patches which make polka-dot patterns in dry and desert ... "We saw similarities between the patterns in Aboriginal art and aerial views of the pavements and found paintings ...

Ms Watson-Trudgett adds that dot-painting only emerged in the 1970s with the Western Desert art movement from Papunya, a small Aboriginal community northwest of Alice Springs. It was here that ...

More information: Ana Paula Motta et al, Linear Naturalistic Figures: a new Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal rock art style from the northeast Kimberley, Australia, Australian Archaeology (2025 ...