{"product_id":"dorothy-napangardi-robinson-mina-mina-2012-182x244cm","title":"Dorothy Napangardi Robinson | 'Mina Mina, 2012' | 182x244cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DN201008\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dorothy Napangardi Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mina Mina\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182x244cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMina Mina is the country that shaped Dorothy Napangardi's life and her painting. It lies west of Yuendumu, a place of salt pans, soakages and the long ancestral tracks walked by Napangardi women. She returned to it again and again on canvas, mapping its surface with thousands of small white marks set against a dark ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere the field reads as a vast aerial view. Vertical filaments of dotting fall like rain across the surface. A horizontal seam runs through the middle, swelling and tightening, where the salt crust buckles and the ground shifts underfoot. Look longer and the rhythm changes. Some passages feel tightly woven. Others open into softer drifts, as if wind has moved across the pan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNapangardi was known for this restraint. She worked almost entirely in white on black, trusting the dot itself to carry weight. The result is a country rendered through pure topography. No icons, no narrative figures. Just the pulse of walking, the grid of ancestral journeys, and the saline shimmer of the lake bed under sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scale of the work matters. Standing close, the surface dissolves into stippled light. Step back and the structure asserts itself, a great horizon line stretched across the canvas with the patience of someone who knew every metre of the ground she was describing. It is one of her finest meditations on Mina Mina, made in the maturity of her practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maddy Rennie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51458086207721,"sku":"DN201008","price":120000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DN201008-Dorothy_Napangati-182x244-MINA_MINA-1_web2000.jpg?v=1782696558","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/dorothy-napangardi-robinson-mina-mina-2012-182x244cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}