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Peter Sutton's Dreamings: the Art of Aboriginal Australia, is one of the most interesting and best illustrated books available on art of the Aborigines of Australia. It is more than the usual exhibition catalogues, as it does discuss and present ethnological facts accompanying the paintings. This is a beautiful book every person interested in art should have in its shelf.

Howard Morphys's Aboriginal Art is yet another beautiful book about Aboriginal Art, especially of the Top End (Arnhem Land). Morphy is one of the major specialists on this topic.

Ada Andy Napaltjarri is a Luritja Warlpiri speaking artist of Central Australia.

Born 1954 at Narwietooma Station, she mooved to Papunya settlement when established in 1960, where she assisted Papunya Tula artists. In the early 1980's she experimented with Women's art on canvas boards and started selling her artwork in 1985.

Ada's work has been exibited at the Tandanya Centre in Adelaide, Australia, and at the Canterbury Gallery in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has numerous works in private collections throughout Australia and overseas.

Extract of compilation by Alastair Burns, Alice Springs, April 1997
Photos by Laurent Dousset, 1997

Dots of acrylic painting are placed with a little stick on canvas Ada Napaltjarri at work, Alice Springs, Mai 1997

Yaalka Tjukurrpa (Bush Onion Dreaming) near Mt. Wedge Alice Springs, Mai 1997

Tjarla Tjukurrpa (Honey Ant Dreaming) in the hills at Papunya Alice Springs, Mai 1997