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The painting, "Budgerigar Dreaming," was a gem, a beatific riot of bird tracks on a shimmering field of white dots. Ronnie Lawson ... the contemporary Aboriginal art movement sprang to life.

Ms Watson-Trudgett adds that dot-painting only emerged in the 1970s with the Western Desert art movement from Papunya , a small Aboriginal community northwest of Alice Springs. It was here that ...