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Gloria Petyarre
1942 – 2021
Gloria Petyarre (Gloria Pitjara) is one of Australia’s most successful and significant female artists. Her work is characterised by swirling brushstrokes that depict the Kurajong bush medicine leaves.
In 1999 Petyarre was the first, first Nation Australian artist to win to Wynne Prize for Landscape at the New South Wales Gallery.
“The painting was an extraordinary new artistic statement, quite unlike any other Aboriginal artwork at that time. A huge, gold and green abstract work, it was made up of swirling leaf shaped brush strokes positioned close together on a black background. It brilliantly captured the energy and flow of leaves being scattered by a fitful wind, seaweed swirling in a change of tide, or grass billowing in the wind. “ Kate Owen.
Gloria was a founding member of the Utopian Art Movement. This movement is one of the most diverse and independent groups of artists from communities. It is named after the Utopian Homelands, an area she came from, about 300K from Alice Springs.
The women of the movement had been introduced to art making through a silk Batik group in the late seventies as a source of income to fund land court hearings, which they won. These works were discovered by dealers in Sydney and exhibited at the Adelaide Art festival in 1981. This led on to the use of acrylic paint on canvas and their paintings quickly became widely sought after, both in Australia and Internationally with this creative wave heralding the rise of many famous names.
Work Dimensions: 1480mm W x 1910mm H
Unframed
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