Biography AWARDS: 1998 the 15th National Australian Aboriginal Arts Award. Anna is a niece to Emily Kngwarreye. Anna Timouth creates inspiring paintings with fascinating accuracy of intricate details and subtle shades of colour to attain almost three dimensional physical presence of the much contemporary work of art, that floats in the air and moves with the viewer’s eyes.

Anna Tilmouth Pengarte Biography

Anna Tilmouth is daughter to June Bird and Johnny Tilmouth and the granddaughter to well known Utopia artist Ada Bird Petyarre. Anna Tilmouth has accompanied her grandmother Ada on trips to Melbourne exhibitions and is showing a strong confidence in her own painting style, often experimenting with new designs and she has a great sense of colour.

Anna Tilmouth born 1955, has grown up with a strong tradition of making art in particular painting. Anna says that the designs in her paintings are inspired by the Ngulunga plant. The Ngulunga has beautiful yellow flowers with thick bristles and is found near Anna’s home land in the Utopia region.

EXHIBITIONS
2000 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T
2002 Mbantua Gallery - Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A
2002 Mbantua Gallery - 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2002 Mbantua Gallery - Urban Wine Works, Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit – OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2002 Mbantua Gallery - Mary's Woods, Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit – OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - New City Merchants, Knoxville, Tennessee USA
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee USA
2003 Mbantua Gallery - 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Contemporary Aboriginal Art Event, Umpqua Bank, Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Mary's Woods, Portland Oregon USA (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Art From The Dreamtime, Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon USA (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
Aug-Sep 2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Portland, Nashville and Greenwich

Anna Tilmouth Pengarte Language Group is Anmatyerre, her Country is Utopia Region
Medium Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Wood Sculpture
Subject(s) Awelye (Women’s Ceremony and body paint designs), Ngulunga (plant), Bush Foods, Mulga Story Figures

Source & FURTHER REFERENCES: 

"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" edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP 2000, “Australian Aboriginal Artist Encyclopedia” – dictionary of biographies” Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004). Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody, A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database;  Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs.

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