Biography AWARDS: 1998 the 15th National Australian Aboriginal Arts Award. Anna is a niece to Emily Kngwarreye

Anna Petyarre Biography: Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies page 315.

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Anna Petyarre born in 1965, is a daughter of the late Glory Ngarla and niece to the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Anna’s paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout Australia and is a well established young Utopian artist.

Selected exhibitions:
1996 Utopia Dreaming, Soho Gallery, Sydney
1997 Dacou Gallery, Adelaide
1997 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney
1998 Selected for the 15th National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Arts Award
1999 Tandanya, Adelaide
1999 BMG Art, Adelaide
2000 Tandanya, Adelaide
2000 Dacou (in association with AMP), Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2001 Women's Business, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago, USA
2001 Japingka Gallery, Perth; 2001 Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin
2002 Galerie Le Temps du Reve, France; 2002 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2002 Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne

SOURCE:
Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas
A summer Project, 1988 - 1989 exhibition Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody
A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story
1988 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection
Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database
Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires and Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs
Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical Dictionary by Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP 2000
Australian Aboriginal Artist Encyclopedia dictionary of biographies” by Janusz Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg, (eds.)       Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004

AWARDS:
1998 Selected for the 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Award, Darwin

COLLECTIONS: 
Art Bank (Sydney)
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide)
Powerhouse Museum  (Sydney)
Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin)
Homes a Court Gallery and Gallery Collection (Perth)
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth)
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)
The Kerry Stokes Collection;
Anthropology Art Museum Perth
also private and corporate collections in USA, Singapore, Ireland, India, Poland, Denmark and France.

Anna is a very talented artist and paints ‘Yam”, ‘Wildflower”, ‘Emu’ ‘Wild Potato” and ‘Campsite Dreaming. Her country is Alhalkere and her language is Anmatyerre.

DACOU regards Anna as an artist on the rise who will certainly make her mark in the world of Utopia art. She resides at Mulga Bore Utopia Australian Northern Territory approximately 220 km from Alice Springs. This is the place where she currently paints. Anna has painted on and off since early childhood.

 Anna Petyarre (Pitjara) commenced full-time painting in the early 1980s when the medium of canvas and acrylic paints was introduced to the community of Utopia. Prior to painting she produced batik. Her main Dreamings, which she depicts in her paintings are: Yam, Wild Potato, Wildflowers, Emu and Campsite. Anna Petyarre often use bright colours with minimal dotting also she has a technique of intricate dot work, with small blocks of colour.

Anna speaks Anmatjere and is fluent in English.  Anna essentially paints the Bush Yam. This is the dreaming of her grandfather and father's country. She also paints some body painting and women's ceremony as well. She paints on a whole range of canvas sizes and also paints on to ancient Aboriginal utensils such as the wira and coolamon. These utensils are used for carrying water, fruit, berries and even babies through the bush. Anna has other dreamings as well but she does not paint them. Under the careful guidance of Gloria Petyarre, Anna began to paint her own work. Over the last few years, Anna has been learning further skills from the Women painters in Utopia. Anna actively takes part in ceremonies and paints the bodies of the dancers prior to the commencement of each ceremony. She takes the utmost care and pride in her work and endeavors to bring the sensitivity of her culture to canvas. Anna Petyarre has been painting for the Michael Hollow Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery - Alice Springs - Melbourne - Sydney since 1997.

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Medicine Leaves

Anna Petyarre b.1965

165 x 125 cm
Acrylic on Belgian linen

NOTES:
The state-of-the-art, inspiring contemporary work of art, executed with fascinating accuracy of intricate details, subtle shades of colour that moves with the viewer’s eyes and floats in the air, giving an expression of the three dimensional physical presence, of the much modern-day, work of art.

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