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Including aboriginal artists such as Gloria Tamerre Petyarre, Violet Petyarre, Minnie Pwerle, Walalal Tjapaltjarri, William Sandy, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Julie Nangala Robinson.
The following are some of the range available for sale, for more information
contact Shirley Becke.
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Gloria Tamerre Petyarre |
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Title
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1. Bush Medicine - 215cm x 115cm
2. Bush Medicine – 99cm x 119cm |
Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in 1945 – Gloria Petyarre is one of seven Petyarre sisters from the Utopia area of Central Australia who have, since the early 1990’s all become painters of significance. In 1995 she won the Wynne Prize for Landscape painting at AGNSW with a work entitled Leaves blowing in the wind. A leading member of the Utopia batik group in the 1980’s she traveled to Ireland, England, France, Thailand and India representing the Utopia women with the exhibition that showed these works, Utopia – A Picture Story, the Holmes a Court Collection, 1990. Her works have been exhibited in many galleries around Australia and internationally and she is represented in the NGA, all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous significant private collections. BIB McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006 |
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Violet Petyarre |
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Title
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Body Paint - 100cm x 120cm 1 & 2
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Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in 1938 – Violet Petyarre is one of seven Petyarre sisters from the Utopia area of Central Australia who have, since the early 1990’s all become painters of significance. The Petyarre sisters share the dreaming of the Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard – the patterns and colours of which change as camouflage, depending on the background patterns. The sisters are thus able to depict myriad designs, all under this dreaming which they interpret along with others based on awelye (women’s body design) and a large variety of bush foods and other subjects. BIB McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006 |
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Minnie Pwerle |
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Title
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Awelye – 95cm x 120cm |
Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in 1922 – Minnie Pwerle lived her entire life on her Utopia homelands 300kms north-east of Alice Springs. She started painting in 2000 and in the six years until her death in 2006 her work has risen to Australian art super-stardom. Her painting career has been closely connected to her friend and predecessor Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her style of work has been described as having qualities of “reverence, abandon, reliance on gesture, raw expression and intuition”. Both artists began their painting careers when in their 70s and became highly prolific and notable for the wild colouration and free, gestural imagery. Pwerle’s works are highly sought after and she is represented in AGSA, AGNSW, NGV, QAG and a number of other leading public collections. BIB McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006 |
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Walala Tjapaltjarri |
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Title
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Swamp Pans – 97cm x 120cm 1 & 2 |
Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in the early 1960’s, at Marua in the Gibson Desert, Walala and eight other relatives of the Pintupi Tribe walked out of the desert in Western Australia and made contact for the first time with European Society. Described as The Lost Tribe, he and his family created international headlines. In 1996 Walala developed his own style of painting, abstracting the classical Pintui designs creating a highly graphic language to speak of his country and ceremonial sites. The rectangles so prominent in his paintings form both a physical and spiritual map. His images are graphic generally highlighted by a series of rectangles set against a monochrome background. In recent years Walala has gained worldwide recognition participating in national and international solo and group exhibitions. He is represented in private and public collections in Australia, Europe and the USA and has exhibited in London, USA, and throughout Australia. |
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William Sandy |
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Title
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Emu Rock Hole – 180cm x 120cm
Emu Rock Hole – 110cm x 130cm |
Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in 1944 in South Australia Sandy began painting in 1975 in Papunya where he lived with his family. In the early 1980s he joined the Papunya Tula Artists painting dingo, emu, women and green bean as his subject matter. He is also known for his knowledge of traditional medicine. William Sandy has exhibited in New York, Miami, Washington, Mexico City, Canada, Japan as well in Australia nationally. He is represented in the Robert Homes a Court collection, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Donald Khan Collection USA and Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. In 1985 he won the Northern Territory Art Award in Darwin.
BIB Aboriginal Artists, dictionary of biographies by Janusz B Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg |
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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa |
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Title
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Fire Dreaming – 110cm x 128cm |
Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in 1943 in Western Australia Ronnie Tjampitjinpa is one of the most well known of the contemporary artists of the Papunya School of painters. His works often feature the geometric designs of the traditional men’s Tingari Cycle stories in colours ranging from monochromatic blacks and whites to brilliant clear colouration. Other paintings are based on fire and rain dreamings. He is a prolific painter, the most striking of whose works show great command of line and form giving a sense of optical illusion. Tjampitjinpa has exhibited internationally including the USA, Russia, Moscow and throughout Australia and his works are represented in major galleries including NGA, AGNSW, AGWA, AGSA, MAGNT, NGV as well as Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, Lowe Art Museum University of Miami and Holmes a Court Collection. BIB McCullough’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006. |
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Julie Nangala Robinson |
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Title
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River Dreaming – 100cm x 148cm |
Medium
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Acrylic on Canvas, primed linen
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Born in 1973 Julie Robinson is the daughter of Dorothy Napangardi a prolific Warlpiri artist with an extraordinarily diverse talent and passion for painting having won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2001.
Julie has been painting since the late 1990’s often in the company of her mother. In the last three years she has started to paint on a regular basis using graphically minimal and contemporary designs of her country Pirlinyanu - a land of rocky outcrops and deep water springs. She has moved beyond traditional iconography to create her own visual language. She recently exhibited with her mother at Gallery Gondwana in Perth. |
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