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Kathleen Ngale

Kathleen Ngale (Born 1933) is active/lives in Australia.  Kathleen Ngale is known for Aboriginal art.

Kathleen Ngale (* ca. 1930) belongs to the oldest generation of artists from “Utopia”, an Aboriginal homeland in the Northern Territory of Australia. To this day, the region remains as removed as possible from Western influences, which is reflected in the biography of Kathleen Ngale, who only came into contact with acrylic paints in the 1980s.

Previously she had experimented with the Indonesian batik technique, which is a kind of wax painting on textiles. In the artistic expression of the Aborigines of Utopia, one formal feature stands out in particular: the striking use of dots. Although the cumulative arrangement of the multi-layered colour dots does not follow a strictly pictorial function, the compositions, with their almost pointillist effect, represent a connection to the narrative culture of the Aborigines.

In most cases, these are rites and legends of the fertility of their own land, which is guaranteed by the wind which scatters the seeds. In this context th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2347 characters.]  Artist bio

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