Mr Giles, as he was invariably known, will be remembered in the wider world chiefly as a painter, one of the most naturally gifted of the senior desert men who began painting regularly in the boom ...

Along with body and artefact designs, ground paintings were an important cultural source for the emergence of contemporary desert art in the early 1970s. During that decade, Anmatyerr, Warlpiri ...

Read more: 15 Most Famous ... amid the desert dust. Looking for other artsy hotspots on the west coast? California also boasts one quirky mountain town that mixes nature and art, as well as ...