Ada Bird Petyarre Tags

Skin name: Petyarre
Language: Anmatyerre/Alyawarre
Region: Utopia
Dreaming: Angertla (Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming) Engcarma (Bean) Unyara (Emu) Annlara (Pencil Yam) Kadjeta (Grass Seeds) Elaitchurunga (Small Brown Grass)

Find out more about Ada Bird Petyarre at the Aboriginal Art Directory

“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

 

Contemporary Indigenous art at Toowoomba Regional Gallery

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-01 17:07:23

Indigenous art assembled by one of Australia’s leading collectors will be on display at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery until July 18. Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Ann Lewis Collection includes paintings, prints and photographs Dr Ann Lewis, OBE, is one of Australia’s...» Read More

 

Grand Showroom Opening and Fire & Lightning: Press Release

Grand Showroom Opening and Fire & Lightning: Press Release

Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2010-04-12 00:00:00

Central Art is proud to present the first major exhibition in central Australia of the work of two rising stars in contemporary art: Sarrita (22 years) and Tarisse King (24). Fresh from a sellout tour of Paris, Amsterdam and Germany, the...» 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

 

Ada Bird Petyarre c. 1930 - 2009

Ada Bird Petyarre c. 1930 - 2009

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-07-15 18:53:02

Acclaimed Utopia artist, Ada Bird Petyarre, well known for the breast paint-ups of her Awelye (body paint designs) and for Arnkerrthe (Mountain Devil Lizard) paintings, passed away peacefully on Sunday 28th June. Famous for her bubbly personality, Ada was the...» Read More

 

Rockholes and Claypans in Aboriginal Art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-12 12:26:02

Red Desert Gallery in Eumundi presents a prime medley of colourful art featuring "Rockholes and Claypans" with narrative from some of the most remote desert regions of Australia. A showcase of select artworks from both female and male central desert artists...» 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

 

Introducing Australia's Premier Aboriginal Art Gallery to the World Wide Web

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-24 03:55:39

Bundarra Gallery showcases contemporary and modern Aboriginal art from the finest indigenous artists of Australia. It houses a unique collection of paintings and artifacts displaying the best work of Australian Aboriginal Culture. Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia (PRWEB) May 22, 2008 --...» Read More

 

Find out more about Ada Bird Petyarre at the Aboriginal Art Directory