Gloria Petyarre

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Gloria Petyarre with 'Bush Medicine Leaves'	Bio Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Awards Collections Artwork Printable CV Bio Born: c. 1945 Region: Utopia, Alice Springs - Northern Territory Language Group: Anmatyerre "Born at Atnangkere Soakage, Northern Territory. In the 1970s, Gloria Petyarre was a founding member of the Utopia Women's Batik Group. With wonderful confidence, she merged the traditional iconography of the Anmatyerre onto the new medium of silk. A very innovative and dynamic artist, she exerted a great influence on others in the group. In the early 1980s, Gloria Tamerre made her first painting on canvas (for CAAMA'S Summer Project exhibition) and soon developed her unique style of depicting the stories and her understanding of the traditional country. In 1995/96, she received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council." Information taken from: Birnber, M. & Kreczmanski, J.B. (2004) Aboriginal Artists: dictionary of bibliographies, J.B. Publishing, Australia. back to top Solo Exhibitions 2002 Gloria Petyarre - leaves & awelye, Utopia Art Sydney 2000 Paintings from Anungura, Utopia Art Sydney 1999 New Leaves, Utopia Art Sydney Gloria Tamerre Petyarre: a survey exhibition, touring - New England Regional Art Museum Manly Art Gallery 1998 The Anangkere Growth Paintings,Chapman Gallery, Canberra Gloria Tamerre Petyarre: a survey exhibition Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms, Galeri Petronis, Malaysia 1997 Instant Pictures, Utopia Art Sydney 1995 Gloria Petyarre: On the Line, Utopia Art Sydney 1994 Utopia Art Sydney 1993 Awelye, Utopia Art Sydney 1991 Australia Galleries, New York Utopia Art Sydney, Australia back to top Group Exhibitions 2002 Crossroads: the Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Prints Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. 2001 Museum, Utopia Art Sydney Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light, Vienna Desert Flowering: Aborignal Art from Private Collections, Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand Seven Sisters Petyarre, Brisbane City Gallery 8th International Works on Paper Fair, Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios Australia, Sydney. Utopia Art Sydney, Paris. 2000 Encore, Utopia Art Sydney The Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, ACT Melbourne ArtFair, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award (Reconciliation Prize), Old Parliament House, Canberra Lines, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane Landscape, Utopia Art Sydney, Paris 1999 Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Utopia Art Sydney Petyarre Dreaming, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Crossroads: Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Artists, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Amsler - Bastille, Paris. 1998 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Primary Colours: Blue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney Women Painters of the Desert, Fire-Works Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Queensland nineteen ninety eight, Utopia Art Sydney, Paris. 1997 Tapestries (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop) Australian Galleries, Sydney Flagging the Republic, Grafton Regional Gallery 1996 Nineteeninetyseven, Utopia Art Sydney Aurora, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Seoul Arts Centre, Korea Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Paperwork, Utopia Art Sydney new paint new work, Utopia Art Sydney Contemporary Abstract Aboriginal Art, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Imagining the Real: an exhibition of recent acquisitions from the Parliament House Collection, Canberra The Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra The Gesture, Utopia Art Sydney Utopia Women, Utopia Art Sydney Hidden Treasures II: Art in corporate Collections, SH Ervin Gallery Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. 1995 A Celebration of the Art and Craft of Aboriginal Women, Aboriginal and Tribal Art Centre, Sydney 1994 Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria 1993 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery 1992/3 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia 1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1990 Utopia - A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland Tagari Lia: My Family, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK 1989 Utopia Women, Coventry Gallery, Sydney Art From Utopia, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA Utopia Batik, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1988 Time Before Time, Austral Gallery, St. Louis, USA Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utopia Art Sydney 1985 The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1984 The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin back to top Awards 1999 - Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1994 - Tapestry Commission for the Law Courts, Brisbane 1993 - Design for tapestry for Victorian Tapestry Workshop 1993 - Mural for Kansas City Zoo back to top Collections Allen, Allen & Hemsley Art Gallery of New South Wales Australian National Gallery Baker-McKenzie Campbelltown City Art Gallery Flinders University, South Australia Gold Coast City Art Gallery Griffith University Collection Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Museum of Victoria, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Queensland Art Gallery Queensland University of Technology Riddoch Art Gallery, SA Supreme Court, Brisbane The Robert Holmes a Court Collection University of New South Wales Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA Westpac, New York James D. Wolfensohn Collection Wollongong City Art Gallery Wollongong University Collection Macquarie Bank University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Singapore Art Museum Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory British Museum
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