Papunya

Papunya Northern Territory
Papunya
Coordinates	23°13′S 131°54′E / 23.217°S 131.900°E / -23.217; 131.900
Population	404 (2016 census)[1]
Location	240 km (149 mi) NW of Alice Springs

Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: Warumpi)^[2] is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 kilometres (150 mi) northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, in particular the style created by the Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, referred to colloquially as dot painting. Its population in 2016 was 404.