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Alvira Bird Mpetyane / Women’s Ceremony (AB05)
SKU: AB05
197cm x 72cm Acrylic on Canvas
Original price was: $2,450.00.Current price is: $1,450.00.
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Alvira Bird Mpetyane / Women’s Ceremony (AB07)
SKU: AB07
197cm x 72cm Acrylic on Canvas
$2,450.00
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Alvira Bird Mpetyane / Women’s Ceremony (AB06)
SKU: AB06
195cm x 105cm Acrylic on Canvas
$3,500.00
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About the Artist

Alvira Bird Mpetyane is an Anmatyerre artist born in 1984. Her ancestral Country is Ilkawerne, situated in the Utopia region of the Northern Territory, approximately 200 kilometres northeast of Alice Springs. Alvira is the fifth eldest of eleven children born to artists Eileen Bird and the late Paddy Bird. She grew up at Mulga Bore outstation, also known as Akaye Soakage, surrounded by a large, close-knit family in which painting, cultural knowledge and connection to Country formed an important part of everyday life. Her grandparents included two highly respected Utopia artists, Ada Bird Petyarre and Lindsay Bird Mpetyane. Ada was a particularly strong influence on Alvira, teaching her to paint and sharing the stories associated with women’s ceremonies as they worked together. From a young age, Alvira also watched and assisted her grandmother and aunties, learning through the traditional processes of observation, participation and the passing of knowledge between generations. Alvira’s paintings draw upon the cultural stories of her Ilkawerne Country. Her principal subjects include Awelye (Women’s Ceremony) associated with Ahakeye (Bush Plum), Alpar (Rat-tail Plant) and Ntang Artety (Mulga Seed). These ceremonies bring women together to share knowledge and maintain their cultural responsibilities through song, dance, storytelling and ceremonial body painting. Her intricate compositions combine finely worked dotting with rhythmic lines, concentric forms and repeated ceremonial motifs. The detailed surfaces of her paintings represent bush foods, plants, women, digging sticks, gathering places and the designs traditionally painted onto women’s bodies during ceremony. Through these works, Alvira expresses the enduring relationship between the women of her family, their Country and the cultural knowledge entrusted to them. Alvira now lives with her husband and children between Alice Springs and Engawala, a small community situated on her traditional Ilkawerne Country. Her paintings have appeared in group exhibitions and are held in private collections throughout Australia and internationally.

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