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Aboriginal artists from Utopia, Central Desert -Gloria
Petyarre
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Born
about 1938, Aboriginal artist Gloria Petyarre is a prominent Anmatyerre
artist who has been at the forefront of contemporary Australian painting
for many years. She lives and works in her own community at Utopia,
combining this with visits to major cities for exhibitions and to
paint. A close associate of the major artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria has exhibited widely. From 1977 to 1987 she participated in numerous group exhibitions with other women from Utopia. In 1989 her paintings were included in the ‘Art From Utopia’ exhibition at the Austral Gallery, St Louis, and in 1993, together with her husband Ronni Price, she designed and executed a mural for the Kansas City Zoo, USA. While she works within the bounds of traditional knowledge and often expresses Tjukurrpa themes and traditonal women’s body designs, Gloria Petyarre remains a contemporary, individualist, artist exhibiting a number of clear stylistic innovationss, both sequential and concurrent. At the same time, the forms or structures that can be discerned underlying much of her work are reminiscent of the forms of other kin, in particular Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her sister Ada Bird. subjects and themes Mountain devil lizard, body design. collections Campbelltown City Art Gallery. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth. exhibitions Individual exhibitions 1991, Utopia Art Sydney; 1991, Australia Galleries, New York, USA. Group exhibitions 1984 The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1985 The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1988 Time Before Time, Austral Gallery, St. Loius, USA. 1988 Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utopia Art Sydney. 1989 Utopia Women, Coventry Gallery, Sydney. 1989 Art From Utopia, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA. 1989 Utopia Batik, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. 1989 Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1990 ‘Utopia - A Picture Story,’ an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland. 1990 Tagari Lia: My Family, Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 -from Australia, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK. 1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1991 Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 1992/3 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia. 1993 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery. 1994 Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria. 1995 A Celebration of the Art and Craft of Aboriginal Women, Aboriginal and Tribal Art Centre, Sydney. bibliography Aboriginal Arts Management Association, 1990, Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 - from Australia (presented by the Aboriginal Arts Committee, Australia Council and Third Eye Centre, Glasgow), exhib. cat., Redfern, New South Wales. (C) Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth. (C) Caruana, W., 1987, Australian Aboriginal Art, a Souvenir Book of Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory. (C) McCulloch, A., & McCulloch, S., 1994, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales. Perkins H. ‘Beyond the Year of Indigenous Peoples’ in Art and Australia 1993 Vol 31 No 1 p 98-101. (Ref is to Gloria Petyarre). 1991, Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. |
 region Central Desert state NT community Utopia born 1938 active 1980 language Anmatyerre outstation Atnangkere art centre Utopia Batik and Arts medium Silk batik, acrylic paint on canvas, wood cut print |
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