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BORN circa 1938
TRIBE
REGION Utopia
LANGUAGE Anmatyerre
The paintings of Kathleen Petyarre have been compared internationally to those of the minimalist modern artists Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin, not so much for their formal structure: but for what underlies beneath, partially hidden from the observers view. In actuality, Kathelen Petyarre’s paintings are mental territorial maps, which portray her country, and the narrative associated with her inherited Dreaming stories.
Her celebrated works, Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, when presented on a grand scale, depict the whole of her ancestral country (which covers some 200 square kilometers of the eastern desert of central Australia), whilst other works, like the My Country and Rock-holes series, present a seasonal snapshot within: a close-up of a geographical location spiritually important to the artist.
Since her first works-on-canvas appeared in 1988 in the collaborative Utopia exhibition ‘A Summer Project’ (The Holmes a’ Court Collection), Kathleen Petyarre’s oeuvre has always been identified by her deft minimalist overtures. Now, in the summer of 2004/5, we see a new style of work emerging, bolder, perhaps more abstract, certainly more modern in it’s technicality and presentation, yet each work retains her signature form and elegant style of delicacy. Through her beautiful and highly evocative paintings, Kathleen Petyarre continues to retain her position at the forefront of the Australian contemporary art movement.
EXHIBITIONS
1989 Coventry Garden, Sydney
1989 Tandanya, Adelaide
1989 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
1989 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Ireland
1989 Harvard University, Boston USA
1989 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1991 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
1992 Robert Holmes A Court Collection, Sydney
1993 Moree Plains Art Gallery, Moree, NSW
1994 Australian Embassy, Paris, France
1994 Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam & The Netherlands
1995 Ludwig Forum for International Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1996 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1996 Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
1997 Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam & The Netherlands
1997 Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
1997 Museum Puri, Lukisan, Ubud, Bali & Indonesia
1997 National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
1997 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997 Dreampower, Adelaide & Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1997 Coo – ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1998 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998 Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1998 Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1998 Japinka Gallery, Perth
1999 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2002 Aboriginal Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
2002 Gallerie Commines, Paris, France
AWARDS
2001 One of Australia’s 50 most Collectable Artists
2002 One of Australia’s 50 most Collectable Artists
1998 Finalist, “1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award – Visual Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1998 Winner, People’s Choice Award, 1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1997 Overall Winner of the Visy Board Art Prize, the Barossa Vintage Festival Art Show, Nurioopta, SA, Australia
1996 Joint Second Prize, Open Award Category – The Third National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Commission Art Award, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1996 Overall winner of the Telstra 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia
COLLECTIONS
Collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA, Australia
The Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
The Kluge-Rhue Collection, University of West Virginia, VA, USA
The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle, WA, USA
A.T.S.I.C. Collection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Riddoch Regional Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA, Australia
Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia
Collection de Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris, France.
Peabody – Essex Anthropology and Ethnology Museum, Harvard University,
Salem, Mass, USA
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Collection, Adelaide, South Australia
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