biography
| name: |
Kngwarreye, Emily Kame
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pronunciation:
[nuhwaray]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (c.1910–96)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Alhalkere, Northern Territory, Australia. The pre-eminent artist of the internationally renowned Utopia group of artists, she first became known by exhibiting with Utopia Women's Batik (1977–88), a group which used non-traditional batik techniques. She began painting in her seventies, working mainly with acrylic paints, and her works now feature in major public and private collections throughout Australia and the USA. A non-English speaking elder of the Alhalkere people, her innovative style is based on Amnatyerre ceremonial body designs and symbols and Dreaming maps, over which she applied her own distinct images. She is known as much for being an Aboriginal artist as a contemporary abstract painter. |
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