Kathleen Petyarre with 'My Country - Bush Seeds'
Born:
c 1938
Area: Utopia
Language: Anmatyerre
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
“Kathleen Petyarre has built an international reputation as one of Australia's most important contemporary artists. An Eastern Anmatyerr woman, Petyarre concentrates on narratives associated with her Dreaming Ancestor, Arnkerrth, the old woman Mountain Lizard, or Thorny Devil.”
Excerpt taken from “Arts today” with Bruce James on Radio National, 8th May, 2001.
2003
Ilyenty, Mosquito Bore, Recent Paintings, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne,
VIC
2001
Genius of Place: The work of Kathleen Petyarre, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sydney, NSW
New Paintings by Kathleen Petyarre, Gallerie Australis & Coo-ee
Gallery, at Mary Place
Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2000
Landscape: Truth and Beauty, Recent Paintings by Kathleen Petyarre,
Alcaston Gallery
Kurrunpa Marrka, “Strong Spirit, New Directions in Contemporary
Aboriginal Painting,
Songlines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
The
Return of Beauty, Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA
1999
Recent Paintings by Kathleen Petyarre, Coo-ee Gallery, Mary Place,
Sydney
1998
Arnkerrthe - My Dreaming, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1996
“Kathleen Petyarre - Storm in Aknangkerre Country”, Alcaston
House Gallery,
Melbourne, VIC
2006
Prism, Contemporary Australian Art at the Bridgestone Museum of Art,
Tokyo, Japan
Recent Paintings, Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Framed Gallery, Darwin,
NT
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum
of Women in the
Arts, Washington DC., USA
Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy Kemarre, Bush Leaf & Other Dreaming's,
Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, WA
Abie Loy & Kathleen Petyarre, New Paintings, Maunsell Wickes Gallery,
Paddington, NSW
2005
Aboriginal Vision in Contemporary Australian Art, Levi - Kaplan
Collection, The Wright Exhibition
Centre, Seattle, WA, USA
Utopia Women,
Maunsel Wicks, Paddington, NSW
New Paintings Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Utopia, Gadfly Gallery,
Dalkeith WA.
l'Art
Aboigene d’Australie, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
2004
Spirit & Vision - Aboriginal Art, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg,
Austria
Arnkerthe - New Paintings, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
2003
Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Recent Paintings, Fire-works Gallery,
Brisbane
All About Art,
Alcaston Gallery, Sydney
Big Country: Masters Exhibition, Gallery Gondwana
2002
Sisters/Yakkananna, Kahui Mareikura Exhibition, Tandanya, Adelaide
SALA Festival,
Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
All and About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Beyond The Pale, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Collection,
Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
Utopia, Framed
Gallery, Darwin, NT
The Return of Beauty, Object Galleries, Sydney
SALA Week,
Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
Chemistry, Art
in South Australia 1990 – 2000, The Faulding Exhibition, Adelaide
Two Women Dreaming: The Emergence of International Style Indigenous
Painting (Kathleen Petyarre & Gloria Petyarre), Songlines Gallery,
San Francisco, USA
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, Madrid and internal regional
Galleries, Spain
1999
15th NATSIAA Touring Exhibition, Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise,
QLD
Tandanya, Adelaide, SA
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Raiki Wara: Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait,
Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney
North by North
East, Landscape & Ceremonial Paintings from Utopia, Alcaston
Gallery, Melbourne
SALA Week,
Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
Utopia: Ancient Cultures/New Forms, Art Gallery of Western Australia,
Perth
Utopian Visions: Emily Kngwarreye and the Women of Utopia, Songlines Gallery, San Francisco,
USA
Odyessy: A Journey into World Art, Bicentennial Exhibition, Peabody –
Essex Anthropology and
Ethnology Museum, Harvard University, Salem,
MASS., USA
1998
“Recent Acquisitions”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Our Country -
Then & Now, Gallerie Australis, SA
Chapman
Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Expanse, Art
Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Raiki Wara: Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait,
National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne
15th NATSIAA
Touring Exhibition, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern
Territory, Darwin, NT
The Rodney Gooch
Utopia Collection, Riddock Regional Art Gallery, Mount
Gambier, SA
“Belonging to
Mother Earth” - Indigenous Wisdom and Healing Conference, Virginia
Beach, Virginia, USA
The Seppelts Contemporary Art Award Group Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sydney
Utopia Dreamings,
Japingka Gallery, Perth
1997
14h NATSIAA Touring Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers
Paradise, QLD
14th NATSIAA Touring Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
14th NATSIAA Touring Exhibition, Campbell town Gallery, NSW
14th NATSIAA
Touring Exhibition, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Schilderijen uit Utopia, Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Utopia
Exhibition Adjunct to Documenta, Kasel, Germany
Group Exhibition, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
Dreampower, Art of Contemporary Aboriginal Australia, Museum Puri Lukisan,
Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Galeri Ardiyanto,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Dreamings from the Home of the Mountain Devil Lizard, Coo-ee Gallery,
Sydney
Mountain Devil
Lizard Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Perth, WA
1994
Utopia Mixed Exhibition - Festival of Arts, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
“The Evolving Dreamtime: Contemporary Art by Indigenous Australians from
the Kelton Foundation Collection”, Pacific Asia Art Museum in Pasadena,
California, USA
1990
The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland, Limmerick City, Gallery
of Art, Ireland
“Contemporary Aboriginal Art from The Robert Holmes a Court Collection”,
Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts Harvard University, Boston,
MA, USA
James Ford Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, USA
Lakewood Centre
for the Arts, Lake Oswego, USA
“CAMMA / Utopia Artist’s in Residence Project”. The Perth Institute
of Contemporary
Art, Perth, WA
“Utopia
- A Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court
Collection”. The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
1989
“Utopia Women’s Paintings: The First Works on Canvas, A Summer
Project”. S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
“Utopia Women”, Coventry Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Utopia - A Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court
Collection, Tandanya
Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA
Finalist, “1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award - Visual Art ”, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Winner,
People’s Choice Award, 1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Overall Winner of the Visy Board Art Prize, the Barossa Vintage
Festival
Art Show, Nurioopta, SA.
Joint Second Prize, Open Award Category - The Third National
Aboriginal
& Torres Strait Islander Heritage Commission Art Award, Canberra,
ACT.
Overall winner of the Telstra 13th National Aborigional & Torres
Strait Islander
Art Award, Darwin, N.T.
1997 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
1998 Australian Delegate, “Belonging to Mother Earth” - Indigenous Wisdom and Healing Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A.October 4 - 10.
1996
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
1997 The Art Gallery of Western Australian, Perth, WA
1997
Art Gallery of South Australia, Desert Artists-in-Residence, Adelaide,
SA, January
1997 Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, June
Paintings
Collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA
The Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, S.A
The Kluge-Rhue Collection, University of West Virginia, VA, USA
The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, CA., USA
The Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle, WA., USA
A.T.S.I.C. Collection, Adelaide, SA
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
Riddoch Regional Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA
Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA
Collection de Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris, France
Peabody – Essex Anthropology and Ethnology Museum, Harvard University,
Salem,
Mass., USA
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Collection, Adelaide, South Australia
Prints
& Wood-blocks
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Museum & Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT
Batik
The Holmes a Court Collection, WA
National Gallery of Victoria, VIC