Violet Petyarre

Skin name: Petyarre
Language: Eastern Anmatyerre
Region: Utopia
Dreaming: Arnkerrth (Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming) Engcarma (Bean) Unyara (Emu) Annlara (Pencil Yam) Kadjeta (Grass Seeds) Elaitchurunga (Small Brown Grass) Awelye (womens Body Paint Design)

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“Tradition to Modernity” - a showcase of unique contemporary Indigenous work from Central desert regions

Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2010-08-10 00:00:00

In ancient Australian Indigenous culture, Aboriginal people from the Central Desert depicted beliefs, dreamings and ceremonial rituals in ephemeral sand drawings. In recent times, this practice was translated onto canvas using coloured pigments and original expressions for traditional storytelling and depictions...» Read More

 

Jeannie Petyarre: Medicine Leaves

Jeannie Petyarre: Medicine Leaves

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-10-22 03:46:51

Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara) was born in c.1951 on the Boundary Bore Outstation of Utopia, Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia. She is the sister to well known artists Greeny Purvis Petyarre, Evelyn Pultara, Rosemary Petyarre and Anna Price Petyarre. Her...» Read More

 

Gloria Petyarre

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-16 14:02:26

Gloria Petyarre is one of the most successful indigenous artists from Utopia, a region 270kms northeast from Alice Springs. Gloria’s seven sisters are also artists, such as the well-known Kathleen Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre, Violet Petyarre and Ada Bird. Like...» Read More

 

Aboriginal Art Selling Exhibition - Catalogue Online

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-06 02:15:00

ABORIGINAL ART SELLING EXHIBITION Select Works on Display 8 – 23 DECEMBER Shapiro Gallery 162 Queen Street Woollahra ON VIEW Monday through Saturday 11-5pm Department Enquiries Tel 612 9326 1588 CATALOGUE ONLINE www.shapiro.com.au ENQUIRIES aboriginal.art@shapiro.com.au Jane Raffan (+612) 9326 1588...» Read More

 

Ada Bird Petyarre

Ada Bird Petyarre

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-21 02:40:16

Ada Bird Petyarre emerged as a seminal participant in the ‘Summer Project’ organized by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association CAAMA in 1988. This workshop was to play a vital role in introducing women into what was, at the time,...» Read More

 

Julie Pungata and Mary Ngala Jones

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 06:40:54

Eastern Desert Art has recently acquired the work of two local painters who paint the Dreaming – Bush Plum of their Ancestors. Julie Pungata and Mary Ngala Jones are talented painters who live permanently in the heart of the Bush on...» Read More

 

Utopia Revisited

Utopia Revisited

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-09 11:35:25

NG Art Gallery is hosting 'a women's' only exhibition to coincide loosely with International Women's Day on Saturday 8 March. A number of established indigenous artists will show their work in 'Utopia Revisited' to be opened by Her Excellency Professor...» Read More

 

Utopia Revisited exhibition

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-09 11:22:46

NG Art Gallery in association with Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Dacou Gallery, Gallery Australis and Lauraine Diggins Fine Art present ’Utopia Revisited’ Exhibition to opened by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales Tuesday 12 February...» Read More

 

Yapa Dreaming

Yapa Dreaming

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-05 13:36:47

Monday 3 December and Sunday 9 December Galerie Yapa, Morteza Esmaili The Yapa Gallery invites you to discover the painting of Australian central desert in the presence of the artists : Nancy Petyarre Margaret Lewis Napangardi Abie Loy Kemarre Galerie YAPA Morteza Esamaili 18 Rue Saint Roch 75001 Paris...» Read More

 

Central Art The Petyarre Sisters 2007: Australian Aboriginal Art from Utopia: 12 November 2007

Central Art The Petyarre Sisters 2007: Australian Aboriginal Art from Utopia: 12 November 2007

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-12 02:07:54

Central Art Aboriginal Art Store is excited to present itsfirst online exhibition The Petyarre Sisters 2007: Australian Aboriginal Art from Utopia from Central Art - Aboriginal Art Store. For this exhibition, Sabine Haider, Director, has chosen to exhibit fifteen works...» Read More

 

Martumili Artists

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-28 15:29:35

Boldly out of the west Stuart Rintoul September 27, 2007 In October last year, Martumili Artists began as an enterprise, drawing together Martu artists from the communities of Parnngurr, Punmu, Kunawarritji, Jigalong, Irrungadji (Nullagine) and Parnpajinya, as Newman is known, supported financially...» Read More

 

Martumili Artists

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-26 15:36:20

Martumili Artists at William Mora Gallery 25 September - 19 October...» Read More

 

The Courier-Mail - Bendi Lango

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-25 02:44:50

Courier Mail article about the Federal's Governments changes to Indigenous communities in Australia and the Bendi Lango exhibition. Quoted from article: Sydney-based indigenous art curator Jenny Hillman has travelled to eight Aboriginal communities around Australia to collect 140 paintings for Bendi Lango...» Read More

 

The Elizabeth Jones Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art 14 August 2007

The Elizabeth Jones Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art 14 August 2007

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-08-15 02:28:56

Mossgreen Auctions specialises in single owner auctions for collections covering fine art and antiques. Services include auctions held in our stylish multi-level building on Toorak Road South Yarra, on site auctions at the owner’s property or staged events in hired...» Read More

 

Warlpiri Women's Paintings Lajamanu

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-09-08 05:09:55

In 1986 a small group of women produced the first paintings for Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT. These paintings have become important documents of Warlpiri culture held in the National Gallery of Victoria, collected at the instigation of the curator...» Read More

 

Recent Works By Ramingining Artists

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-07-12 05:12:00

Coo-ee Gallery in association with Bula'Bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation presents an exhibition of recent works by Yolngu artists from Ramingining, NT. Featured in this exhibition are several works by young relatives of the late Dr David Daymirringu and George Malibirr, alongside...» Read More

 

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