Artist: Kathleen Petyarre | Title: My Country - Bush Seeds - After Sandstorm | Year: 2010 | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | Dimensions: 152 x 152 cm
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Commissioned by Gallerie Australis, SA Cat No. GAKP1010621. Private Collection, SA.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Aboriginal Works of Art including the estate of the late Mike Chandler, Sydney, 04/06/2019.
Accompanied by a Gallerie Australis certificate of authenticity,
EXHIBITED
Parcours des Mondes, Saint Germain, Paris, 2013
ARTWORK STORY
This painting presents an aerial view of Kathleen Petyarre's sacred Dreaming site of the Mountain Devil Lizard in the vicinity of Mosquito Bore on Utopia Station. It is here at this site that eastern Anmatyerre men and women conduct important secret and sacred initiation ceremonies.
This Dreaming site is situated in the artist's father's country and the general locality is identified by a group of sand-hills. The painting portrays the area scattered with seeds, summer bush flowers and spinifex grasses. The sand-hills here conceal a sacred Women's Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth).
During her lifetime, Kathleen Petyarre was one of Aboriginal Australia's pre-eminent artists. She was awarded the Visy Board Art Prize at the Barossa Vintage Festival Art Show in 1998 and the following year won the People's Choice Award in the Seppelts Contemporary Art Award, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Later that year, she won the biggest prize of all, the prestigious Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. She was honoured with a solo retrospective exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2000.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Eastern Desert
LANGUAGE
Alyawarre/Eastern Anmatyerre
BIOGRAPHY
Born c.1940 three hundred miles northeast of Alice Springs, and instructed by her paternal grandmother in the Dreamings that inform her work, Kathleen Petyarre began painting in the mid 1980’s. Within a decade a series of important exhibitions, prestigious awards, and journalistic debate about Indigenous art praxis, had propelled her to international renown, if not entirely for all the right reasons…Continue Reading
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Commissioned by Gallerie Australis, SA Cat No. GAKP1010621. Private Collection, SA.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Aboriginal Works of Art including the estate of the late Mike Chandler, Sydney, 04/06/2019.
Accompanied by a Gallerie Australis certificate of authenticity,
EXHIBITED
Parcours des Mondes, Saint Germain, Paris, 2013
ARTWORK STORY
This painting presents an aerial view of Kathleen Petyarre's sacred Dreaming site of the Mountain Devil Lizard in the vicinity of Mosquito Bore on Utopia Station. It is here at this site that eastern Anmatyerre men and women conduct important secret and sacred initiation ceremonies.
This Dreaming site is situated in the artist's father's country and the general locality is identified by a group of sand-hills. The painting portrays the area scattered with seeds, summer bush flowers and spinifex grasses. The sand-hills here conceal a sacred Women's Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth).
During her lifetime, Kathleen Petyarre was one of Aboriginal Australia's pre-eminent artists. She was awarded the Visy Board Art Prize at the Barossa Vintage Festival Art Show in 1998 and the following year won the People's Choice Award in the Seppelts Contemporary Art Award, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Later that year, she won the biggest prize of all, the prestigious Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. She was honoured with a solo retrospective exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2000.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Eastern Desert
LANGUAGE
Alyawarre/Eastern Anmatyerre
BIOGRAPHY
Born c.1940 three hundred miles northeast of Alice Springs, and instructed by her paternal grandmother in the Dreamings that inform her work, Kathleen Petyarre began painting in the mid 1980’s. Within a decade a series of important exhibitions, prestigious awards, and journalistic debate about Indigenous art praxis, had propelled her to international renown, if not entirely for all the right reasons…Continue Reading
