Click to enlargeKathleen Petyarre
c.1940 – 2018
- Region
- Eastern Desert
- Community
- Atnangkere
- Language group
- Alyawarre (Alyawarr); Anmatyerr (Anmatyerre) – Eastern Anmatyerre
My Country-Bush Seeds, 2003
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
122 x 122cm
- Provenance
- Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, SA
Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Exhibited
- Ripples in the Water - Lines in the Sand, Dank Street Depot, Waterloo NSW, March 2010
September, September 2007
Mixed Utopia, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington, NSW, April 2006
Utopia, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Redfern, NSW
- Artwork story
- This represents an aerial view composition of Kathleen Petyarre’s sacred Dreaming site of the Mountain Devil Lizard in the vicinity of Mosquito Bore on Utopia Station .It is here at this site that the men and women of the eastern Anmatyerre language conduct important secret and sacred initiation ceremonies. This Dreaming site is situated in the artist’s father’s country and the general locality is identified by a group of sand-hills.The painting portrays the area scattered with seeds, summer bush flowers and spinifex grasses.
The sand-hills represents a sacred Women’s Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth).
Consigned from Aymkeesh P/L to Cooee Redfern - minimum return $8000