BIOGRAPHY Sarah Kngwarreye, is a modern artist but also paints in a naive style about the British migration. She is a member of the famous Kngwarreye family clan, including international artist Emily Kngwarreye. She is recognized for her traditional women’s stories and she also paints with her sister Lucky. Lucky Morton Kngwarreye depicts Awelye, the ceremonial body paint design associated with her country Ngkwarlerlaneme.
 

Artist: Sarah Morton
Title: Camp Scene cat.no. GALMB8922
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 93 x 63cm
Price: $2,800 -  framed

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Sarah’s Camp Scene is a narrative of traditional life from Ngkwarlerlaneme country. The painted environment often reflects the current condition and seasons of their land, the lack of/or abundance of specific foods and plants. Lots of water indicates good rains – wild flowers after rain. Men, women and children are shown hunting and gathering bush food, returning to camp, preparing and sharing with family. Careful reading of these paintings will often show other aspects of community life e.g. man and women performing ceremony, or conflict between different skin groups. Look for the camp dogs.
Significant land marks, hills, clouds and rainbows relate to their major Rainbow Dreaming.

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Sarah Morton Kngwarrey Biography

Sarah Kngwarreye, is a modern artist but also paints in a naive style about the British migration. She is a member of the famous Kngwarreye family clan, including international artist Emily Kngwarreye. She is recognized for her traditional women’s stories and she also paints with her sister Lucky. Lucky Morton Kngwarreye depicts Awelye, the ceremonial body paint design associated with her country Ngkwarlerlaneme.

Skin Name: Kngwarrey (pronounced eng-wah-ray, also spelled Ngwarai, Kngwarreye)
Language Group: Alyawarr
Country: Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr
Subjects: Awely (Women’s Ceremony), and many Dreamtime stories that altogether Sarah calls Country, as it all belongs to her country. Dreamtime stories include Alpeyt (Wild Flowers), Rainbow Dreaming (Boor-la-da), Ilyarn, Ilyarnayt, Tharrkarr (Sweet Honey Grevillea), Yerramp (Honey Ant).

Sarah is daughter of Utopian artist Mary Morton Kemarre. Along with her mother and sisters, Lucky, Audrey, Ruby and Valerie Morton, Sarah was part of the batik workshops in the 1980’s at Utopia. Sarah’s work is featured in the ‘Robert Holmes á Court’ exhibition and collection which has toured extensively within Australia and abroad.

Sarah began painting in the summer of 1988-9 as part of the CAAMA project with the Utopia women’s paintings: ‘The First works on Canvas, A Summer Project’. She has continued to paint with acrylics on canvas.

Sarah first started painting for Mbantua Gallery in 1990. In 2003 Sarah traveled with her sister Lucky to Melbourne for their paintings. Painting is a part of life for Sarah in which she enjoys doing when not traveling for her education or participating in cultural business. She attends Bachelor College which has seen her travel to Darwin, Tenant Creek and Alice Springs.

Collections:
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
The Holmes á Court Collection, Perth

Sarah Morton Kngwarrey

Skin Name: Kngwarrey (pronounced eng-wah-ray, also spelled Ngwarai, Kngwarreye)

Language Group: Alyawarr

Country: Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr

Subjects: Awely (Women’s Ceremony), and many Dreamtime stories that altogether Sarah calls Country, as it all belongs to her country. Dreamtime stories include Alpeyt (Wild Flowers), Rainbow Dreaming (Boor-la-da), Ilyarn, Ilyarnayt, Tharrkarr (Sweet Honey Grevillea), Yerramp (Honey Ant).

Sarah is daughter of Utopian artist Mary Morton Kemarre. Along with her mother and sisters, Lucky, Audrey, Ruby and Valerie Morton, Sarah was part of the batik workshops in the 1980’s at Utopia. Sarah’s work is featured in the ‘Robert Holmes á Court’ exhibition and collection which has toured extensively within Australia and abroad.

Sarah began painting in the summer of 1988-9 as part of the CAAMA project with the Utopia women’s paintings: ‘The First works on Canvas, A Summer Project’. She has continued to paint with acrylics on canvas.

Sarah first started painting for Mbantua Gallery in 1990. In 2003 Sarah traveled with her sister Lucky to Melbourne for their paintings. Painting is a part of life for Sarah in which she enjoys doing when not traveling for her education or participating in cultural business. She attends Bachelor College which has seen her travel to Darwin, Tenant Creek and Alice Springs.

Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra)
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth)
Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection (Perth)
Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs

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.