Gamilaroi/Wiradjuri man Allan McKenzie paints caskets His father taught him art skills in the regional NSW town of Griffith Mr McKenzie encourages other artists to paint caskets But for ...

In what has been described as Australia's most brutal drought on record, the nation's farmers have been struggling to stay afloat, resorting to selling livestock and putting down whatever remains.

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More than 200 coloured fit balls buried in the sand will recreate the Aboriginal dot painting Water Dreaming by artist Jangala 'Shorty' Robertson as part of this year's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition ...

Little did he know his Aboriginal dot paintings would lead to people across the nation wanting commissioned pieces. “I’m just blown away by the requests and they’re huge artworks too, I’m doing a ...

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Chances are, you said dots. But for Australian artist Brandi Salmon, she hopes to one day see a world where that’s no longer the automatic answer. This NAIDOC Week, Brandi is urging teachers to go ...

In the 1970s a striking new art style, popularly known as dot painting, emerged from the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya. It was spearheaded by a small group of male artists, including Clifford ...

TWO newly discovered Albert Namatjira works show that the master painter of outback scenes also produced art in the modern dot-painting style more than 20 years earlier than the famed Papunya style.