The groundbreaking Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales was the first major retrospective by artists from Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert. Consisting ...

Joanna Mendelssohn is the Editor in Chief of Design and Art of Australia Online. She receives funding from the ARC through a Linkage Project on the History of Exhibitions of Australian Art. The ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Seismic shifts occur infrequently on the cultural landscape, and the works produced at such rare moments accrue ...

Normally when you mention art from Papunya, about 300 kilometres west of Alice Springs, you'd be talking about the famous dot painting movement that has drawn worldwide attention since the 1970s. But ...

After 50 years, the Papunya Tula Art Movement has carved out a deep niche in Australian art history, but the settlement itself was a desolate place born from a long history of misunderstandings and ...

Leaders in Papunya say the central Australian community is facing a bleak Christmas because people are confused about new welfare rules. Income management was introduced in Papunya 11 days ago as part ...

Love Police Records & Tapes have announced the imminent release of ‘Warumpi Rock: Papunya Sessions 1982’, an unabridged collection of the earliest known recordings by Indigenous country-rockers ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Papunya, a town neglected and manipulated, should weigh heavily on the national conscience. As reported in this newspaper last week, ...