Focus on Gulgardi and discuss the abstract.
Gulgardi is a 1971 painting by Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, an Indigenous Australian artist from Papunya in Australia's Northern Territory. It is notable for being the first work by an Indigenous Australian artist to win a contemporary art award, and the first public recognition of a Papunya painting.
Papunya 1971 Indigenous Australian artist Northern Territory Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa