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Biography:
Jennifer Kngwarreye
Purvis
Skin Name: Kngwarreye (pronounced eng-wah-ray)
Language Group: Anmatyerre
Country: Alhalkere
Subjects: Kame (pencil yam seed) Dreaming
Jennifer is the youngest daughter of Greeny Purvis Petyarre and
Kathleen Purvis Kemarre, both established Utopian artists. Greeny is
senior custodian for Alhalkere country and one of Utopia’s finest
artists. Jennifer began painting after encouragement and enthusiasm from
her family. All three of her elder sisters, Judy, Maureen and Jedda
Purvis, have been artists for many years.
Artist
Jennifer Purvis Kngwarreye
Born 11th January 1974
Language Anmatyerre
Country Alhalkere
Medium Acrylic on canvas and linen
Subject(s) Kame (Pencil Yam Seed) Dreaming
COLLECTIONS
Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
EXHIBITIONS
2002 Mbantua Gallery - Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A
2002 Mbantua Gallery - 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2002 Mbantua Gallery - Urban Wine Works, Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(Benefit – OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2002 Mbantua Gallery - Mary's Woods, Portland, Oregon U.S.A (Benefit –
OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - New City Merchants, Knoxville, Tennessee U.S.A
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee U.S.A
2003 Mbantua Gallery - 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Contemporary Aboriginal Art Event, Umpqua Bank,
Portland, Oregon U.S.A (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Mary's Woods, Portland Oregon U.S.A (Benefit -
OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2003 Mbantua Gallery - Art From The Dreamtime, Portland Art Museum,
Portland Oregon U.S.A (Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre) Aug-Sep
2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Hartford and Greenwich
March 2005 Yam Dreaming – Atnwelarre, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs,
N.T.
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. |
