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Jeannie Petyarre

Born: c1956
State: NT
Region: Central Desert
Community: Utopia
Outstation: Alhalkere
Language: Anmatyerre
Social Affiliation: Petyarre subsection
Subjects: Alkalhere country, dingo, bush turkey, bush tomato, centipede, scorpion, medicine leaves.
Medium: Batik on silk, Acrylic on canvas

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)

Jeannie was born in 1956 to a family of well-known artists. She is the sister of the well known Gloria Petyarre, Kathleen Petyarre, Ada Bird Petyarre, Violet Petyarre, Myrtle Petyarre and Nancy Petyarre. Jeannie started painting batik work in the eighties. She paints leaves like her sister Gloria Petyarre, but also Bush Medicine Dreaming, Bush Peanut Dreaming, Mountain Devil Lizard (arnkerrthe) Dreaming, Yam Seed Dreaming and she, like her sister, is known for the use of vibrant colours.

Jeannie paints bush tucker stories, such as yams and yam root systems. Her work is characterised by vibrant designs celebrating the spirit of the Yam plant as it generates year after year to feed the people. This colourful style was taught to her by her Aunt, the famous Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who told Jeannie before she died that she must continue to paint the family’s Yam Dreaming.

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Collection:

The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.

 

Exhibitions: Group Exhibitions:

2021 Top 20 2021, Art Mob, Hobart

2020 Central Focus, Art Mob, Hobart

2020 Top 20 Exhibition, Art Mob, Hobart

2019 Summer Show & Art Parade, Salt, Queenscliff, VIC

2019 defining tradition | black + white, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney

2019 International Women’s Day, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney

2011 Thinking outside the square, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney

2009 Jeannie Petyarre: Medicine Leaves, Aboriginal Dreaming Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles

2008 Three Petyarres”, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney

2006 Cicada Trading, Paris

2006 Cicada Trading, Bahrain Art Society, The Kingdom of Bahrain

2006 Cicada Trading, Annual Clear Lake Exhibition of Aboriginal Paintings, Houston

2006 Cicada Trading, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2006 Cicada Trading, Dubai

2005 Cicada Trading, Milan

2005 Cicada Trading, Illayda, Istanbul

1993 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs

1990 A Picture Story exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopian artists which toured Eire and Scotland

1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings the first works on canvas

Artworks

14921

Jeannie Ptijara
Medicine Leaves

C/No: 14921 110cm x 199cm Acrylic on Canvas
AUD $ 4,000.00
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14922

Jeannie Ptijara
Medicine Leaves

C/No: 14922 105cm x 198cm Acrylic on Canvas
AUD $ 4,000.00
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14923

Jeannie Ptijara
Medicine Leaves

C/No: 14923 69cm x 198cm Acrylic on Canvas
AUD $ 3,200.00
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14606

Jeannie Petyarre
Medicine Leaves

C/No: 14606 93cm x 159cm Acrylic on Canvas
AUD $ 2,400.00
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14581

Jeannie Petyarre
Medicine Leaves

C/No: 14581 108cm x 200cm Acrylic on Canvas
AUD $ 4,000.00
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