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Peggy Purvis Kemarre Mpetyane paints inspiring landscapes with intricate details, her paintings represent the powerful physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.

Artist Peggy Purvis Mpetyane Born c. late 1940’s   Language Group Anmatyerre
Country Utopia Region, N E Alice Springs
Medium Silk Batik, Acrylic on canvas and linen, Wood carving, Seed necklaces
Subject(s) Women’s Stories, Awelye (women’s ceremony and body
paint designs), Bush Foods, Alpar (Rat tail plant)

COLLECTIONS
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association collection, Alice Sprigs
Art Bank, Sydney
Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Perth
Art Gallery of South Australia; 
Mbantua Gallery Museum Collection Alice Springs
private and public collections in America, England, Japan, Singapore and Europe

Peggy is the sister of Annie, Angela and Susan, their mother being Lorna Pununga. She is related to the renowned Central Australian artist Gloria Pitjara (Petyarre). Peggy paints her mothers dreamings which include Kangaroo and Engedkina (pumpkin dreaming), amongst other general dreamings from the Utopia region. Peggy is an up and coming and well recognised artist.  She spends most of her time in the Utopia homelands community but also paints at Gloria’s studio in Alice Springs. Peggy is not a prolific painter, choosing to paint only when she needs money for shopping rather than big ticket items like motorcars for which many of the artists contend. Peggy was involved with the batik movement during the 1980’s at Utopia. Like her sister Wendy Kunoth Mpetyane, painting and carving are two mediums she uses.

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)
Aug-Sep 2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee

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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Peggy Purvis Kemarre Mpetyane

Acrylic on Linen on board

Image Size: 35 x 35cm
Framed Size: 45 x 45 cm

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Peggy Purvis Kemarre Mpetyane

Acrylic on Linen on board

Image Size: 35 x 35cm
Framed Size: 45 x 45 cm