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Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) was born and raised at Alhalkere in the traditional ways and spoke Anmatyerre. Her first contact with Europeans was in 1919. She took up painting in her seventies whilst working with the Utopia Women's Batik Group. Her pure talent with colour received immediate recognition from art critics and collectors, setting the stage for the phenomenal demand that Emily's paintings now command.
In 1992 she was awarded the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship by the Australian Federal Government. By the mid 1990's large collections of paintings by Emily were acquired for permanent display in public galleries. Her paintings are represented in the art collections of many leading corporations and institutions including; AMP, Macquarie Bank, Kelton Foundation, The Vatican Collection, NGA, The Holmes a Court Collection, Artbank, ATSIC, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of QLD, Art Gallery of SA, Art Gallery of Tasmania, University of Miami and many more.
Solo Exhibitions:
- Coventry, Sydney, 1990
- Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1990, 91, 92
- Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, 1991
- Gallery Savah, Sydney, 1994, 1996, 1997.
- Art Gallery of QLD, retrospective, 1998
- Mbantua Gallery and Cultural Museum, 2007–08
- The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2008
- National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2008
Group Exhibitions:
- 1990: "Contemporary Aboriginal Art", Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard Uni. Massachusetts, USA
- 1992: "Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert", touring Russia; "Crossroads, Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia", National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
- 1993: "Aratjara – Australian Aboriginal Art", touring Germany, London (Haywood Gallery) and Denmark (Louisiana regional gallery)
- 1994: National Gallery of Victoria.
- 2010: 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye & Minnie Pwerle', Kate Owen Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
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