Judy Greeny Purvis creates inspiring paintings (with fascinating accuracy of microscopic dots and intricate details and subtle shades of colour) to attain the three dimensional physical presence of the much contemporary work of art, that moves with the viewer’s eyes and floats in the air - BIOGRAPHY

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GALJPO7044-1

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALJPO7044-1
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 33 x 33cm
Framed Size: 45 x 45 cm

GALJPO7044-2

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALJPO7044-2
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 33 x 33cm
Framed Size: 45 x 45 cm

GALJPO7044-3

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALJPO7044-3
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 33 x 33cm
Framed Size: 45 x 45 cm

 GALMB031968

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALMB031968
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 63 x 33cm
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GALMB034109

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALMB034109
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 123 x 33cm
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GALMB034224

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALMB034224
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 123 x 33cm
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GALMB034226

Artist: Judy Greeny Purvis
Title: Pencil Yam Seed GALMB034226
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 123x33cm
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Judy Greeny Purvis Biography

Judy Purvis Kngwarreye Profile

Judy is the eldest daughter to Greeny Purvis Petyarre and Kathleen Kemarre. Greeny is senior custodian for Alhalkere country. Judy and her sisters’
paintings associate with this country. Judy was involved with the Utopia Batik movement and her work features in the Holmes á Court collection.
Judy has featured in several group exhibitions since 1977, including shows at Utopia Art, Sydney; the Orange Regional Gallery; the Austral Gallery, St.

Artist Judy (also known as Judith) Kngwarreye
Other surnames: Greeny, Purvis
Born 1962
Language Anmatyerre
Country Alhalkere
Medium Silk Batik, Acrylic on canvas and linen
Subject(s) Bush Tucker, Bush Scene and Kame
(Pencil Yam Seed Dreaming), Awelye (women’s ceremony and body paint designs)

Judy Purvis Kngwarreye art:
 The Dreamtime story for this seed belongs to Judy’s country Alhalkere in the Utopia Region, North East of Alice Springs. "Kame", the seed of the atnwelarr (pencil yam), is the subject of Judy’s painting.

In the Dreamtime there are txo parts to the Kame story, one that belongs to Alhalkere and Atnangkere countries, and the other that belongs to Arnumarra country. Two different seeds were born that created two different species of pencil yam; one called Atnwelarr which belongs to Judy’s country, and the other called Arlatyeye which belongs to Arnumarra country. The Kame story is a major Dreamtime story for Judy’s country and ceremonies by her people are performed to ensure its productivity as a food source and life form of the ancestors.

Judy uses soft dot work and beautiful colours in this painting to represent the kame. Background designs are inspired by the leaf and root system of the atnwelarr.


COLLECTIONS
Louis, USA; the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs and the Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs.
The Holmes á Court Collection, Perth
Mbantua Gallery Private Collection, Alice Springs

EXHIBITIONS
1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings, the First Works On Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1990 Utopia- A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Robert Holmes á Court Collection by Utopia Artists which toured Eire and Scotland
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)
Aug-Sep 2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Knoxville, Tennessee March 2005 Yam Dreaming – Atnwelarre, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T.

FURTHER REFERENCES
Brody, A. 1989, Utopia Women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project,
1988-89, exhib. cat, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth ©
Brody, A. 1990, Utopia A Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes á Court
Collection Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth ©

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.