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Boomerang Art Collection

Acrylic on Linen
120 x 120 cm, painted 2004

Cat.No: 9841

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Kathleen Petyarre

/ Boomerang Art Collection

/ Cat.No: 9841

Provenance:
Painted in Boomerang Art Gallery in 2004


About Kathleen


The artist spent her childhood in a traditional way, moving across the land with her extended family. She suggests that she was seven or eight years old when she saw her first white person. Kathleen Petyarre grew up with a foot in each world and became an accomplished English speaker. During her youth, Kathleen Petyarre had a wonderful grounding in traditional life and developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of her country around Atangkere. Birds, animals, snakes, lizards, rock holes and soakages were all basic to her world and beliefs. As an Aboriginal painter she has drawn on that knowledge.

KATHLEEN PETYARRE - WINNER OF THE 13th TELSTRA AWARD

In 1996 Kathleen Petyarre was announced as the overall winner of the 13th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her painting “ Storm in Atnangkere Counrty 11”. The “Telstra” was indeed the greatest award offered to indigenous artists across the country and Kathleen Petyarre was delighted.

Location: storage