Gloria Petyarre / Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming (1A)

Name: Gloria Petyarre / Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming (1A)
SKU: 17578
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SKU: 17578

150cm x 90cm Acrylic on Canvas

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150cm x 90cm Acrylic on Canvas

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Gloria was born c. 1945 at Atnangkere Soakage, Northern Territory. She lived in the traditional ways before moving to one of the established settlements, Utopia. Her language is Anmatyerre and her country is Atnangkere.

Gloria is one of seven sisters who are all acclaimed artists, including Kathleen Petyarre, Violet Petyarre and Ada Bird. Her Aunt is the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, the most celebrated painter of the Utopia Movement and Australia’s best known desert artist.

In the 1970s, Gloria was a founding member of the Utopia Women’s Batik Group. In the 1980s, Gloria made her first painting on canvas (for CAAMA’s Summer Project exhibition) and developed her unique style of depicting the stories and her understanding of the traditional country.

In 1990 she travelled to Ireland, London and India as a representative of the Utopia Women in the ‘Utopia – A picture Story’ exhibition and in 1995/96, she received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of The Australia Council.

Gloria had her first solo exhibition in 1991 at the Australia Gallery in New York. In 1993, she executed a Mural for Kansas City Zoo, and in 1999, she won the prestigious Wynne Landscape Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Gloria Petyarre’s paintings are highly sort after by collectors and galleries throughout the world and she is regarded as one of Utopia’s most significant artists.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1991

• Australian Galleries, New York, USA

• Utopia Art Sydney

1993

• Awelye, Utopia Art Sydney

1994

• Utopia Art Sydney

1995

• Gloria Petyarre: On the Line, Utopia Art Sydney

1996

• Fire Works Gallery, Brisbane

1997

• Instant Pictures, Utopia Art Sydney

1998

• Gloria Petyarre, Campbelltown Art Gallery

1999

• Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

• Gloria Petyarre New England Regional Art Museum

• Red Desert Gallery, Eumundi

• Redback Gallery, Brisbane

• Wildflowers, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs

2002

• Leaves You Thinking, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney

Selected Collections

• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

• Museum of Victoria, Melbourne

• Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

• The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth

• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

• Flinders University, Adelaide

• Campbelltown City Art Gallery

• Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

• Griffith University Collection

• Queensland University of Technology

• Supreme Court, Brisbane

• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

• Westpac Gallery, New York

• Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, U.S.A

• Robert Holmes a Court Collection

• Wollongong University Collection

• Artbank, Sydney

• Macquarie Bank

• Singapore Art Museum

• British Museum, London

Artwork Description

The Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming is one of the most significant Dreamtime Stories for the famous Petyarre sisters of Utopia. Gloria demonstrates her connection between her past and the present and reminds us that the Mountain Devil Lizard is still roaming the country and defining the landscape. The dreaming tells of the Old Woman Mountain Devil Lizard who traveled the vast regions of the Atnangker country defining the landscape and identifying the sacred sites.

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