Descripción
Anna Petjara, acrylic/canvas, “Utopia”, a genuine work of Australian Aboriginal art.
Artist: Anna Petjara
Medium: acrylic/canvas
Dimensions: 149 cm x 89 cm
Title: “Utopia”
Region: Utopia
Condition: Very good
Attached: Certificate certifying that the work depicted is a genuine and original work of Australian Aboriginal art.
Circa 1965
Area:Utopia
Language:Anmatyerre
Anna Pitjara (Petyarre)
Anna Pitjara (Petyarre) is also known as Anna Price Petyarre. She is the daughter of the late
Glory Ngarla and the niece of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and was taught to paint
under the guidance of Gloria Petyarre.
Anna is a very popular artist and traditionally paints Yam Seed, Yam Flower, Body Paint and
Women’s Ceremony. The Yam Seed and Yam Flower are her grandfather’s dreaming. She
resides at Mulga Bore, Utopia, Northern Territory. Anna commenced painting in the early
1980’s.
Selected Exshibitions:
Utopia Dreaming, Soho Gallery, Sydney;
1996
1997
Dacou Gallery, Adelaide:
1997
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne:
Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney:
1998
Selected entrant for the 15th’National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts
1998
Awards, Darwin
1999
Tandanya, Adelaide;
99و1
BMG Art, Adelaide;
2000
Tandanya, Adelaide;
Dacou (in association with AMP), Mary Place Gallery, Sydney;
2000
Women`s Business, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago, USA,
2001
2001
Japingka Gallery, Perth;
Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin;
2001
Galerie Le Temps du Reve, France;
2002
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney;
2002
Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
2002
Collections:
Art Bank Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Powerhouse Museium, Sydney:
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; The Kerry Stokes Collection;
The Holmes a Court Colleetion, Perth; Anthropology Art Museum, Perth; private and
corporate collections in USA, Singapore, Ireland, India, Poland, Denmark, France, Germany
and United Kingdom.