The painting, "Budgerigar Dreaming," was a gem, a beatific riot of bird tracks on a shimmering field of white dots. Ronnie Lawson ... the contemporary Aboriginal art movement sprang to life.

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 ...

While Indigenous art is synonymous with the dot paintings of the Central and Western Desert, Rennie says these works ...