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Gloria Petyarre
Artist: Gloria Petyarre
Skin Name: Tamerre
Language: Anmatyerre
Region: Utopia
Dreaming: Angertla (Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming) Engcarma (Bean) Bush Medicine Dreaming Awelye (Women's Ceremonies) Unyara (Emu) Annlara (Pencil Yam) Kadjeta (Grass Seeds) Elaitchurunga (Small Brown Grass)
Gloria Petyarre was born around 1945 and has spent her life in her native country, Anungara. For many years she lived and worked at Adelaide Bore.
In the 1970's Gloria Petyarre was a founding member of the Utopia Women's batik Group. In works of the 1980s, the viewer can detect the shapes of painted breasts, of ceremonial grounds, round bowls, sticks and animal tracks. Towards the end of the decade, a change occurred. Growing in confidence, Gloria Petyarre has toured with her work in recent years, to England, Scotland, Ireland, India, Thailand and the United States, always returning to her native ground and to the bush life she shares with her husband, fellow artist Ronnie Price Mpetyane. At the same timer her work has continued to mature. During the 1990s she has used colour to create original patterns- of grasses, of hills, and of the patterns on the body of the spiny mountain devil lizard that changes its colours, the creature at the centre of the dreaming of the Utopia peoples.
A further development came around 1995, with the first of the artists Leaves series. She paints them in the most vivid colours- true colours of the bush, but ones many casual observers fail to see- and in patterns which gives them movement as though blown by the wind. It was one of this series which won this years Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales- a rare achievement for an Aboriginal artist competing with the best of her contemporaries.
The National Gallery, the Queensland Art Gallery and galleries in the Northern Territory all have important works; the Holmes a Court Collection also has several, and overseas her work graces the Kansas City Zoo.
With wonderful confidence, she merged the traditional iconography of the Anmatyerre onto the new medium of silk. A very innovative and dynamic artist, she exerted a great influence on others in the group. In the early 1980s, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre made her first painting on canvas (for CAAMA's Summer Project exhibition) and soon developed her unique style of depicting her stories and understanding of the traditional country.
In 1995/96, she received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council.
Collections:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
Flinders University, Adelaide
Griffith University Collection
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Supreme Court, Brisbane
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Westpac Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, U.S.A.
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Wollongong University Collection
Artbank, Sydney
Macquarie Bank
Singapore Art Museum
British Museum, London, U.K
Exhibitions:
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Utopia Art Sydney
1988 Bloomfield Gallery, Sydney
1998 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1989 Austral Gallery, St Louis, U.S.A.
1989 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1990 Tandanya, Adelaide
1990 "Utopia", exhibited in Ireland, U.K., India
1990 Orange Regional Gallery
1990 Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1991, 1996 S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1991 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
1991, 1994, 1995, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1991 Australia Galleries, New York, U.S.A.
1992, 1994, 1995, 1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1992 Robert Homes a Court Collection, Bangkok, Thailand
1992 Gallery Rai,Tokyo, Japan
1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
1992 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1993 Myra Morgan Gallery, Kansas, U.S.A.
1993 Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
1993 Austral Gallery, St Louis, U.S.A.
1993 Australian Embassy, Paris, France
1995 National Gallery of Australia - Canberra Museum of Art, Gifu, Japan
1995 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995 Mitchell Galleries, State Library of N.S.W.
1995 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1996 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996, 2000 Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996, 1999 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1996 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1998 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1999 Art Gallery of Western Australia
1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, U.S.A.
1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, U.S.A.
2000 Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Australian National University, Canberra
2001 Brisbane City Gallery
2001 Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand
2001 Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria
2001 "Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art", Singapore
2002 Singapore Art Museum
2002 Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2002, 2003 National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, Melbourne
2002, 2003 Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
2003 Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
Awards:
1999 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1993 Tapestry for Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Vic
1993 Mural for Kansas City Zoo, U.S.A.
1994 Tapestry Commission for the Law Courts, Brisbane, Qld
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