 Nancy Petyarre "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 304001 Size = 120 x 120 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
Nancy Petyarre
Also Known As: Nancy Kunoth
Born: 1934
State: NT
Region: Central Desert
Community: Utopia Store
Outstation: Atnangkere
Language: Anmatyerre
Social Affiliation: Petyarre subsection
Subjects: Bush tucker, Inentye men at Atnangkere, body designs,
Medium: Batik on cotton fabric, Batik on silk,
acrylic paint on wood carving, water bowl.
Collections:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Exhibitions:
2006 - Utopia, Galerie DAD, France.
2004 - Reves de Femmes, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
2003 - Tactility: two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1997 - L'Art des Aborigènes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Galerie
de Stassart, Bruxelles.; L'Art des Aborigènes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie o
Stéphane Jacob / Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers.
1994 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs;
Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek, NT.
1993 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs.
1992 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs.
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.
1989 - Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89,
S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Select Bibliography:
Brody, A., 1989, Utopia Women's Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project,
1988-89, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth. (C) ;
Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a
Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth. (C)
Birnberg & Kreczmanski, Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies, JB Publishing, (C).
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