Gloria is a famous artist and the first Aboriginal origin person to win one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales's major prizes. Gloria won Australia's longest running art prize, Wynne Prize with Bush medicine Leaves. Gloria Petyarre full Biography

Gloria Petyarre won Australia's longest running art prize, the Wynne Prize in 1999 with Leaves, being the first Aboriginal person to win one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales's major prizes; 2004 Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney; 1999 Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Gloria is a one of the most prestigious artists and dynamic force in Australian art. Please view Gloria Petyarre Curriculum Vitae page 258 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. Gloria Petyarre creative development comes from a very potent dreamtime stories and virtuous experimentation facilitated her paintings to convey her peoples affinity with the land. Her paintings harness an existential exuberance, dynamism and brilliance, prompting scholars to affiliate them with paintings by the Abstract Expressionist. Acknowledged by the Art intelligentsia of Australia, in 1999 and 2004 Gloria Petyarre was awarded the prestigious Australian landscape prize The Wynn presented by The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Gloria Petyarre born 1945 at Atnangkere Soakage is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community who live just north of Alice Springs. She won Australia's longest running art prize, the Wynne Prize in 1999 with Leaves, being the first Aboriginal person to win one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales's major prizes. She travelled to Ireland, England and India in 1990 as part of the Utopia – A picture story exhibition. She held her first solo exhibition in 1991. She is represented in major Australian galleries such as the National Gallery of Australia. She is the niece of Emily Kngwarreye and the younger sister of Kathleen Petyarre, two of the greatest Aboriginal artists. She lived at the Utopia community after 1977, where she started batik painting, exhibiting in shows around Australia for ten years. She began work on the 'Summer Project' in 1989 which involved translating the batik paintings onto canvas. She was one of the founding members of this Utopia Women's Batik Group. She paints several Dreamtime stories such as Pencil Yam, Bean, Emu and Mountain Devil Lizard and Small Brown Grass. Several of Gloria's sisters are also artists, the most notable being Kathleen Petyarre. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Artist:    Gloria Petyarre (B.1945-)
Title:      Bush medicine  GP07010
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Image Size: 152.5cm x 62.5 cm
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Artist:    Gloria Petyarre (B.1945-)
Title:      Bush medicine GP0709
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 152.5cm x 62.5 cm
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Artist:    Gloria Petyarre (B.1945-)
Title:      Bush medicine GP0708
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Image Size: 152.5cm x 62.5 cm
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Gloria Petyarre Biography:

Gloria Petyarre won Australia's longest running art prize, the Wynne Prize in 1999 with Leaves, being the first Aboriginal person to win one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales's major prizes; 2004 Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney; 1999 Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Gloria is a one of the most prestigious artists and dynamic force in Australian art. Please view Gloria Petyarre Curriculum Vitae page 258 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. Gloria Petyarre creative development comes from a very potent dreamtime stories and virtuous experimentation facilitated her paintings to convey her peoples affinity with the land. Her paintings harness an existential exuberance, dynamism and brilliance, prompting scholars to affiliate them with paintings by the Abstract Expressionist. Acknowledged by the Art intelligentsia of Australia, in 1999 and 2004 Gloria Petyarre was awarded the prestigious Australian landscape prize The Wynn presented by The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Gloria Petyarre born 1945 at Atnangkere Soakage is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community who live just north of Alice Springs. She won Australia's longest running art prize, the Wynne Prize in 1999 with Leaves, being the first Aboriginal person to win one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales's major prizes. She travelled to Ireland, England and India in 1990 as part of the Utopia – A picture story exhibition. She held her first solo exhibition in 1991. She is represented in major Australian galleries such as the National Gallery of Australia. She is the niece of Emily Kngwarreye and the younger sister of Kathleen Petyarre, two of the greatest Aboriginal artists. She lived at the Utopia community after 1977, where she started batik painting, exhibiting in shows around Australia for ten years. She began work on the 'Summer Project' in 1989 which involved translating the batik paintings onto canvas. She was one of the founding members of this Utopia Women's Batik Group. She paints several Dreamtime stories such as Pencil Yam, Bean, Emu and Mountain Devil Lizard and Small Brown Grass. Several of Gloria's sisters are also artists, the most notable being Kathleen Petyarre. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Gloria Petyarre has been one of the most consistently creative artists at Utopia over the last fifteen years. Gloria Petyarre depicts "Bush Medicine Dreaming"  the rushing movement of leaves with terse rhythmic brush strokes has been heralded as one of her most successful stylistic developments to date. Gloria utilizes close tonal values of color together with the rhythmic patterning of her brush strokes to imply the movement of a tree's leaves as seen blowing in the wind. The leaves of this tree are an important form of bush medicine, which are gathered by women.


Gloria lived in the traditional ways before moving to one of the established settlements, Utopia. Please view Gloria Petyarre Curriculum Vitae page 258 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. The Utopia Pastoral Lease was drawn up in 1927 and forced many of the Aboriginal people in this area out of their traditional lands.

In 1977 the people of Utopia gained a 99 year leasehold on the Utopia Pastoral Lease which was purchased through the Aboriginal Land Fund Council. The commission employed a white manager during the first year to provide a transition for the cattle operation. This proved unsatisfactory and the community began to discuss moving back to their traditional lands. All this change in 1977, with the beginnings of the Batik program, which excelled providing the town of Utopia with an income and a claim of recognition. Gloria was one of the original artist employed in this program. The batik program was a major success, with Gloria being one of the leading artists in this format. Her work gained rapid recognition and was seen by Rodney Gooch from CAAMA. He approached the Utopia artists with a plan called 'A Summer Project'. The idea was simple, supply the women and men with canvas and acrylics and have them use their techniques on Batik in the new format. The project was a major success, with Gloria and many other artist moving full time into acrylic on canvas.

Gloria paints the traditional women business subjects, which are predominant in Utopia. The store of white understanding is heavily influenced by the sex of the contact. In Papunya the contact was Geoffrey Bardon, therefore most of the original artist were male. In Utopia the arts advisor was female, allowing the female artists of this area to flourish. The leading artists quickly mastered the manipulative possibilities. Not only did a huge range of colors emerge, but a far greater tonal range than they were able to achieve with batiks. Gloria stands out here, with her work she uses close tonal values of different colors, creating a dynamic optical intensity. Her work features powerful structural linear patterns derived from body painting, outlined with single dots. At other times the structural pattern becomes submerged in a sea of dots, the tonal relationships causing the structural pattern to dissolve into the base design of her painting. She continues to develop her paintings to higher levels of abstraction, continually experimenting with line and color. She says she prefers the greater freedom and control she finds with the medium of acrylic on canvas. Some Gloria works now have no dots, but bands of different color whose optical effects have evoked comparison to the British artist Bridget Riley.

Gloria main Dreamings that she paints are the Mountain Devil Lizard, Bean, Emu, Pencil Yam, Grass Seed and Small Brown Grass and well as the traditional body paint designs worn by women. In 1990 she traveled to Ireland, London and India as a representative of the Utopia Women in the 'Utopia - A picture Story' exhibition. (Tandanya, Adelaide, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ireland and the Meat Market Gallery in Melbourne.) In 1991 she had her first solo exhibition at Utopia Art in Sydney. Since then she has exhibited at the National Gallery in Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jinta Desert Art in Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. She is also featured extensively in major collections around the world. The National Gallery of Australia, the Robert Holmes a' Court Collection, Museum of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum.

Gloria Petyarre's creative development comes from a very potent dreamtime stories and virtuous experimentation facilitated her paintings to convey her peoples affinity with the land. Her paintings harness an existential exuberance, dynamism and brilliance, prompting scholars to affiliate them with paintings by the Abstract Expressionist. Acknowledged by the art intelligentsia of Australia, in 1999 Gloria Petyarre was awarded the prestigious Australian landscape prize - The Wynn - presented by The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.

Gloria Petyarre has been one of the most consistently creative artists at Utopia. Her leaf or "Bush Medicine" series, depicting the rushing movement of leaves with terse rhythmic brush strokes has been heralded as one of her most successful stylistic developments to date. Gloria utilizes close tonal values of color together with the rhythmic patterning of her brush strokes to imply the movement of a tree's leaves as seen blowing in the wind. The leaves of this tree are an important form of bush medicine, which are gathered by women.

Gloria first solo exhibition was in 1991 at Australian Galleries in New York, USA. Throughout the 1990's her paintings were included in many important group exhibitions in Australia and overseas, including: Utopia Women’s Painting - The First Works of Canvas - A Summer Project. Utopia - A Picture Story, travelling exhibition, England, Ireland and India. Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Flash Painting - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; The Body Paint Collection at Bishop Museum, Hawaii and also toured the United States; Her paintings are featured in books including; Michael Boulton’s - The Art of Utopia, Fire and Shadow by Anna Voigt and Nevill Drury, New Visions New Perspectives by Anna Voigt, Dreamings Of The Desert published by The Art Gallery of South Australia, and Contemporary Aboriginal Art by Susan McCulloch. Gloria Petyarre's paintings are represented in the permanent collections of: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and Levi Collection in Seattle, USA.

Gloria's work is featured on the cover of The Art of Utopia by Michael Boulter. In 1990 she traveled to Ireland, London and India as a representative of the Utopia Women for the 'Utopia - A picture Story' exhibition. Her work has been included in major survey exhibitions including "Flash Painting" at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the 1991 Art Gallery of New South Wales touring 'Aboriginal Women's Exhibition'. She had her first solo exhibition in 1991 at the Australia Gallery in New York. In 1993, she executed a Mural for Kansas City Zoo, and in 1999, she won the prestigious Wynne Landscape Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. This year Gloria was the runner up for the Wynne Landscape Prize with a painting remarkably similar to the one below. This page features one of her latest and her earliest in this evolving series.

AWARDS:
2004, the prestigious Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1999, the prestigious Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney

COLLECTIONS: 
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland; National Gallery of Australia Canberra; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Art bank Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;  Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Queensland Art Gallery  Brisbane; The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth;  Powerhouse Museum Sydney; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin; The Kerry Stokes Collection, Australia; also private and corporate collections in USA, Singapore, Ireland, India, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy and France.

Bush Medicine Leaves

Gloria Petyarre depicts "Bush Medicine Dreaming"  the rushing movement of leaves with terse rhythmic brush strokes has been heralded as one of her most successful stylistic developments to date. Gloria utilizes close tonal values of color together with the rhythmic patterning of her brush strokes to imply the movement of a tree's leaves as seen blowing in the wind. The leaves of this tree are an important form of bush medicine, which are gathered by women. Gloria Petyarre "Bush Medicine" paintings symbolize an abundance of leaves blowing in the wind. The leaves are from the flowering shrub called “medicine bush”. The leaves are treated as a remedy and are used to make medicine to heal any skin complaint including hives, inflammation, irritation spots and cuts, wounds, bites and rashes. It can also be used as an insect repellent. From the medicine bush, women collect the leaves as well as the flowers, the leaves are boiled to extract the resin. The resin of the leaves is mixed with kangaroo fat to make a medicine paste. The flowers are lovely and sweet to eat fresh.