The magazine MAQ September 2019 | Page 130

FOLLOWING THE DOTS

by Madeleine Cobb - August 2019

Geoffrey Bardon and the artists of Papunya 1971

Geoffrey Bardon and the artists of Papunya 1971

There is more to know about the extremely sensitive area of making or copying Aborigine paintings and the use of dots, which has become a very distinctive cultural style.

Painting under the tutelage of an Aborigine guide and teacher is one thing, but appropriation of a cultural