Kathleen Petyarre
Kathleen Petyarre (* around 1938 as Kwementyaye Petyarre in Atnangkere ; † November 24, 2018 in Alice Springs ) was an Aboriginal painter who lived near Utopia near Alice Springs in the Australian Northern Territory and in recent years partly in Adelaide .
Life
When she was a teenager, her parents hired themselves in the livestock industry, in the kitchen, and in jobs that were paid in the daily wage. Kathleen Petyarre has seven sisters and belongs to the Alyawarre tribe. Shortly before the end of her teenage years, she married an old Aborigine who she has a daughter with. In 1968 a school was founded in Utopia. She became a teacher there and left her husband. She worked at the school for 20 years and from 1977 to 1988 she and her sister designed batiks in Utopia. Kathleen Petyarre died on November 24, 2018 in Alice Springs.
plant
After the time of batik design, she began to paint on canvas in 1988. She represented the dream time that her grandmother taught her, the thorn devil , emu-hunting women , bush seeds and dingoes . These dream time figures represent the eastern central desert of Australia. Her pictures also include ceremonial places and initiation rituals.
Her works have been exhibited internationally and nationally and are in collections. She won numerous prizes:
- 1996 Telstra 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin (Australia)
- 1997 Visy Board Art Prize, Barossa Vintage Festival Art Show in Nurioopta (Australia)
- 1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (Australia)
- 1998 People's Choice Award, 1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (Australia)
literature
- Christine Nicholls, Kathleen Petyarre, Ian North (Eds.): Kathleen Petyarre. Genius of Place. Wakefield Press 2001. ISBN 1862545464 . Available online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kathleen Petyarre: a brilliant artist whose life was rudely interrupted by colonisers , accessed January 5, 2019.
- ↑ Christine Judith Nicholls: Mountain devil woman: the extraordinary life and art of Kwementyaye Petyarre . In: The Guardian . December 13, 2018, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 14, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petyarre, Kathleen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petyarre, Kwementyaye (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian artist, Aboriginal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atnangkere , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 2018 |
| Place of death | Alice Springs |