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Kathleen Petyarre

Kathleen Petyarre (c. 1940 - 2018) was active/lived in Australia.  Kathleen Petyarre is known for Aboriginal painting (Mountain Desert Lizard Dreaming; Bush Seeds).

Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs.  She first encountered white man in the late 1940s and starting her integration into western society when working on various pastoral leases as she grew up.

In 1969 she was successful in applying for a job at Utopia school where she stayed for 20 years.  During that time she worked on batik and then started painting as part of CAAMA's Summer Project in 1988-89.  In 1996 Kathleen won the Telstra Award and her painting career blossomed from there.  She has been exhibited overseas numerous times and in 2001 had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

In general, her work is minimalistic and is characterised by the fine dotting technique she uses to represent mental maps of her country.  Her signature work is the Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming, which gives   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5271 characters.]  Artist bio

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