ABSTRACT INDIGENOUS DOT ART

Beyond Australia, Indigenous artists in the Americas and Africa are adopting the dot painting style to abstractly tell their own cultural stories—like Lakota artist Dana Lone Hill using dots to depict beadwork designs on canvas, or Namibian artist Alméria Muleba mixing San rock art figures with dot clusters. By using the dot motif as a contemporary language, this abstract Indigenous art becomes an inclusive global movement, allowing nuanced cultural narratives to emerge in a universally appealing aesthetic born from pointillist heritage.