Gloria Petyarre Australian Indigenous; Anmatyerre , c.1945-2021
Gloria Petyarre was one of Australia's most significant female artists and the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded the Wynne Prize for landscape in 1999. Working alongside Emily Kame Kngwarreye and inspired by the success of her expressive abstraction, Gloria produced her own distinctive style. Her depiction of the Kurrajong bush medicine leaves- layered in multi coloured, free-flowing brushstrokes-became her iconic motif. "Her simplicity of focus allows a concentrated energy to build through pattern and repetition, reflecting the rhythm of traditional song and dance, sometimes whirling and flowing with dots and dashes of colour, other times emphasizing line in more spare and austere works which nevertheless are still 'pulsing with life'" (Hodges 1998).
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Gloria PetyarreBush Medicine Leaves, 2009Synthetic polymer on lilen45 x 151cm -
Gloria PetyarreBush Medicine , 1999Synthetic Polymer Paints on Belgian Linen114 x 193 cm
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1994 - Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.
1995 - Gloria Petyarre: On the Line, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.
1996 - Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.
1997 - Instant Pictures, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.
1998 - Robert Steele Gallery, Adelaide, SA.
1998 - Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW.
1998 - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1998 - Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW.
1999 - Flinders Lane Gallery- Melbourne, VIC.
1999 - Red Desert Gallery, Eumundi, Queensland.
1999 - New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW.
1999 - �Wildflowers�, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT.
2009 - New Works, Big Leaves, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2010 - Dacou Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1984 - First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, AGNT, Darwin
1988 - Bloomfield Gallery, Sydney
1989 - Austral Gallery, St Louis, U.S.A.
1989 - Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1989 - 'A Summer Project', S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1989 - Utopia Batik, Arulen Centre, Alice Springs
1989 - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1990 - "Utopia", exhibited in Ireland, U.K., India
1990 - Orange Regional Gallery
1990 - Tandanya, Adelaide
1990 - Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1991, 1996 - S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1991, 1994, 1995, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1991 - Australia Galleries, New York, U.S.A.
1991 - Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
1992 , 1994, 1995, 1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
1992, 2002 Gallery Rai, Tokyo, Japan
1992 - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1992 - 'The Body Paint Collection', Bishop Museum, Hawaii
1992 - 'The Body Paint Collection', toured USA
1992 - Robert Homes a'Court Collection, Bangkok, Thailand
1993 - Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
1993 - Austral Gallery, St Louis, U.S.A.
1993 - Australian Embassy, Paris, France
1993 - Myra Morgan Gallery, Kansas, U.S.A.
1994 - Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1994 - Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria
1995 - Mitchell Galleries, State Library of N.S.W.
1995 - National Gallery of Australia
1995 - Aboriginal and Tribal Art Centre, Sydney
1995 - Canberra Museum of Art, Gifu, Japan
1995 - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995 - Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1996, 1999 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1996 - Seoul Arts Centre, Korea
1996, 2000 Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996 - Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1997 - Australian Galleries, Sydney
1997 - 'Instant Pictures', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1997 - Galerie de Stassart, Bruxelles
1997 - Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998 - The Anangkere Growth Paintings,Chapman Gallery, Canberra;
1998 - Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1998 - Exhibitions in Europe � inc. Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland
1998 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1998 - Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1998 - The Adelaide Festival Theatre
1998 - Propositions Australiennes, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris
1999 - "Bush Garden", Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
1999 - Art Gallery of Western Australia
1999 - Embassy of Australia, Washington, U.S.A.
1999 - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, U.S.A.
1999 - New England Regional Art Museum;
1999 - Art Gallery of Western Australia
1999 - New Leaves, Utopia Art Sydney;
1999 - Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney
1999 - Utopia, BMG Art, Adelaide
1999 - Arts d'Australie, Bastille, Paris
1999 - Wynne Prize exhibition Winning entry
2000 - Australian National University, Canberra
2000 - Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2000 - Australian National University, ACT
2000 - Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
2001 - "Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art", Singapore
2001 - Brisbane City Gallery
2001 - Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria
2001 - Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand
2002, 2003 Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
2002 - 2003 National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, Melbourne
2002 - Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2002 - Singapore Art Museum
2002 - Knut Grothe Galeri, Denmark
2002 - 'Two thirds sky', Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW
2002 - The Utopia Six, Flinders Lane Gallery
2003 - Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
2004 - 'Power of The Land', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2004 - Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2004 - Curtin University of Technology, WA
2004 - Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, NSW
2004 - 'The Women's Show', Vivienne Anderson Gallery, Victoria
2004 - Utopia, Gloria, Barbara, Minnie, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2006 - 'A Survey', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2006 - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
2006 - Utopia, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2008 - Three Petyarres, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008 - Gooch's Utopia, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA
2009 - 'Size Matters', Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009 - 5th Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition, University of NSW
2009 - Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2011 - Aboriginal Art Collectors' Gallery, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2017 - Gems from the Stockroom, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney