Margaret Turner Petyarre
Born:
c.1945
Region: Utopia
Language Group: Anmatyerre
Margaret Petyarre worked in batik then commenced painting with acrylic on canvas. In her depiction of traditional stories, she has moved from the fine dotting technique employed in her batik work to realist elements and now has reduced the iconographic elements to a minimalist use of dots.
1996 - "Nangara", Stichting Sint-Jan, Brugge, The Netherlands
Ebes Collection
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Information taken from: Birnber, M. & Kreczmanski, J.B. (2004) Aboriginal Artists: dictionary of bibliographies, J.B. Publishing, Australia.