workshop in the Desert Park.
Dotpainting is orginally from Central Australia and the art itself is just
around 40 years old. In former time most of the paintings were done with a
stick on the ground to show the "dreamtime stories". There are of course a
lot of rock paintings too. When looking on a dot painting you have an aerial
view. The elder people would explain in there drawing where there are
waterholes, plants to collect and animals to hunt.
Hello
ReplyDeleteReally pleased to learn you enjoyed the dot painting workshop. They have been really popular and we plan to run them again. We find non-Aboriginal people end up a deeper understanding of some of the local culture.
Safe travels
Gary Fry
Director, Desert Park