Beyond the dot: how Indigenous artists are shaking off stereotypes

Dot painting has dominated the Indigenous art market for decades, but a shift is taking place and the wider art world is starting to noticeFor a long time, the dot painting has been synonymous with Aboriginal art. Emerging out of the remote Northern Territory community of Papunya in the early 1970s, the first dot paintings were produced when art teacher Geoffrey Bardon encouraged his Indigenous students to paint their stories in murals on the school wall.But long before that, circles and dots we