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Joy Kngwarrey 120 x 120 cm
Joy Jones Kngwarreye "Ayippa Grass"
The Painters from UTOPIA
12ve April 2007 — 30th june 2007
Two big families of painters are represented: the Petyarre and
the Kngwarreye.
The Petyarre sisters: Kathleen, Gloria, Ada Bird and Maisie.
Susie, Jessie and Annie Petyarre.
Lucky, Sarah and Joy Kngwarreye.
Description

In 1927, the first explorers who came to this region name it Utopia. The movement of the women's of Utopia started in 1977 by works on batik. Because of the quantity of water that takes the batik it was soon abandon for acrylic painting. When talking about the "Dreaming" that once is responsible of, the word "Dreaming" makes reference to the time of creation, when the world started to be reality. In the Aboriginal tradition the start of the world is not the result of a unique act but of a numerous consequent acts made by multiple creators.

The Aboriginal culture is very different of our occidental ones, but the talent developed in the interpretation, the genius of transmission that makes us go deep in a painting is on both side contemporary art.

The pictorial research comes out of Joy Jones Kngwarreye's burrowing bettong called "Ayippa". Joy is now chief custodian of this species since the death of her older sister Lily Sandover in 2002.

Lucky and Sarah Morton Kngwarreye who work their layout then, with pipettes found near Alice, tell delicately the bush flowers of their country.

And what to say about Susie and Annie Petyarre who have nothing to envy to Pop Art. On the other side, Ada Bird and Minnie Pwerle approach their themes through the body painting by integrating the support that is the body.
Paintings
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Annie Petyarre
40 x 99 cm