'Terrain 1' by Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Born: c.1910 - 2 September 1996
Region: Utopia - Northern Territory
Language Group: Eastern Anmatyerre
Born at Alhalkere, Emily Kame worked as a stockrider on Utopia and other stations. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked with batik and began painting on canvas in the summer 1988/1989 as part of the Summer Project. As a senior member of the Anmatyerre community, she was well versed in the traditional song cycles, body painting and dances. At first her canvases such as 'awelye', the Yam Dreaming cycle, showed more realistic details. She then minimalised the naturalistic approach and her art became highly abstract. She is considered one of the most significant contemporary Australian artists.
2001
Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art, Singapore
2000
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (travelling exhibition)
1999
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA
1998
Queensland Art Gallery (touring, retrospective exhibition)
1997
Venice Biennale, Italy
Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
1996
1995
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1994
Utopia Art, Sydney
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Tandanya, Adelaide
Milan and Palermo, Italy
Bishop Museum, Hawaii
1993
Utopia Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Moree
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Tandanya, Adelaide
Touring exhibition, Dusseldorf (Germany), London (UK)
1992
Utopia Art, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Moree
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,
Japan
State Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1991
Utopia Art, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Art Gallery of NSW
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Union Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1990
Utopia Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of NSW
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Moree
1989
Utopia Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Austral Gallery, St. Louis, USA
1988
Utopia Art, Sydney
1995 - Australia Arts Creative Fellowship
1993 - Churchill Arts Fellowship
1992 - Australia Council 2-year painting grant
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
University of NSW, Sydney
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Artbank
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Donald Kahn Collection, Love Art Museum, University of Miami, USA
Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Vatican Collection, Italy
Information taken from: Birnber, M. & Kreczmanski, J.B. (2004) Aboriginal Artists: dictionary of bibliographies, J.B. Publishing, Australia.