Dorothy Dixon

Dorothy Napurrurla Dickson was born in 1965 in Alice Springs hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290km north-west of Alice Springs. She grew up in Yuendumu with her grandmother and siblings. Dorothy attended the local school before going to Yirara college, an Aboriginal boarding college in Alice Springs. After graduation she returned to Yuendumu and worked at the Outback Store.
She paints her father’s and grandfather’s Lukarrara Jukurrpa (desert fringe-rush seed dreaming), stories that relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to her by her family and their ancestors before them. As an artist, she liked painting her ngurlu (bushseed).