Ms Watson-Trudgett adds that dot-painting only emerged in the 1970s with the Western Desert art movement from Papunya , a small Aboriginal ... Western Australia. He spent his childhood in Adelaide ...

The painting, "Budgerigar Dreaming," was a gem, a beatific riot of bird tracks on a shimmering field of white dots ... By the 1980s Australian museums began to take Aboriginal art seriously ...

Mr Denham, who has held Bagu workshops in most Australian states ... Mr Denham said when most people thought about Indigenous art they pictured dot paintings from the Northern Territory.