Dorothy Napangardi is a Walpiri woman from Mina Mina, a highly significant sacred site in one of the most remote areas of Australia; the Tanami Desert, north west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Her finely painted minimal depictions of 'Women's Dreaming on the Mina Mina' have deservedly won her critical and popular acclaim.

Regarded as one of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, she paints her father's homeland at Lake McKay. Creating her own unique language to describe these homelands, Dorothy's paintings are shaped by an interlacing network of dotted lines. These lines form both a micro and a macro study of the land; creating the homeland topography while telling a story of the ancestral tracks. These lines represent the salt encrustations around the dry claypans etched with the tracks of the women.

Dorothy has been painting since 1987. She has established her reputation with her distinctive style of painting winning her acclaim. She won first prize in the 18th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2001. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, the National Gallery of Victoria, and The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.