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Anna Price Petyarre

Anna Pitjara Price
Other Names: Petyarre

Born:                1960
Region:             Central Desert
Community:      Utopia
Language:         Anmatyerre
Medium:            Acrylic on canvas/linen.
Subjects:           Yam Seed, Wildflower, Bush Potato, Emu, My Country.

Collections:

Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
Anthropology Art Museum, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne
Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Moitiers, Switzerland

Awards:
1998 Selected entrant for the 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Award, Darwin
2014 Ayers Rock Resort, Yulara, NT: Artist in Residence

Exhibitions: Individual Exhibitions:
2009 Anna Petyarre, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2008 Anna Petyarre, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2006 Anna Petyarre, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2004 Anna Price, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2002 – exhibition with her mother, Glory Ngarla, at Hogarth Galleries, Sydney.

Group Exhibitions:
2021 Mid-Winter Mofo, Art Mob, Hobart
2020 Pointillism Perfection, Art Mob, Hobart
2020 Top 20 Exhibition, Art Mob, Hobart
2019 defining tradition | black + white, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 International Women’s Day, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Spring Collection: Exhibition to celebrate our beautiful Spring Collection,
Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney
2017 Intricate Expressions, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2013 Desert Rouges, Histoires Aborigenes Gallery, Galerie Art Diaphragme, Auxerre, France
2012 Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2012 Black and White, Muk Muk Gallery, Alice Springs
2011 Wet Paint, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2011 In Black and White, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2009 Utopia 09, Neo Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Grand Opening, Aboriginal Dreamtime Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Three Petyarres, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2008 Australian Aboriginal Art, Alice Sundown Aboriginal Art, Darwin
2007 Journeys and Dreams, Gecko Gallery, Broome
2007 Utopia and Beyond 2007 – Aboriginal Desert Art from East to West, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
2007 Women of Utopia, Addison Road Gallery, Sydney
2006 Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Small Wonders, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2005 Yam Dreaming – Atnwelarre, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Portland, Nashville, Knoxville, Hartford, Greenwich, New York and
Philadelphia
2004 Galerie Le Temps du Reve, Pont-Aven, France
2003 Art from the Dreamtime, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
2003 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: New City Merchants, Knoxville, TN; Art and Soul Gallery,
Nashville, TN; The Cove Gallery Portland, OR; Mary’s Woods, Portland, OR
2003 Heart and Soul, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2002 Galerie Le Temps du Reve, Pont-Aven, France
2002 Women’s Business, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago
2002 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: New City Merchants, Knoxville, TN; Art and Soul Gallery,
Nashville, TN; The Cove Gallery Portland, OR; Urban Wine Works, Portland, OR; Mary’s Woods,
2002 Generations, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2002 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2002 Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Painting Country, Tandanya
2001 Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2001 Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin
2000 Artists of Utopia, Tandanya, Adelaide
2000 DACOU (in association with AMP), Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1999 Caring for Country – Artists of Utopia, Tandanya
1999 DACOU Gallery, Adelaide
1999 BMG Art, Adelaide
1998 Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney
1997 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1997 DACOU Gallery, Adelaide
1996 Utopia Dreaming, Soho Gallery, Sydney

 Anna Pitjara

Anna Pitjara is an eastern Anmatyerre woman, born at Utopia in 1965. Anna’s home is Atneltyeye, Boundary Bore, on the Utopia Homelands, approximately 220 km from Alice Springs. She lives there with her family. She is a grandmother with five grandchildren. Anna, whose mother was the late artist Glory Ngale, has painted since her early childhood. She is related to Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Kudditji Kngwarreye through her grandfather, who was a brother of Emily and Kudditji’s father.

Anna Pitjara’s subjects include Bush Yam and Yam Seed Dreamings, which are associated Dreamings from her grandfather’s and father’s country at Atneltyeye, or Boundary Bore. As a traditional Aboriginal women involved in sacred ceremonies, Anna also paints Awelye- ceremonial body paint designs – related to women’s ceremony.

Amongst these is the story of women painting up for ceremony inside a cave, singing of how to attract a man, and of the bush foods preferred by interested suitors. The women also learn the laws that stipulate that they must only encourage the interests of men of a certain clan relationship to themselves. Anna’s more recent work has focused on images of her ancestral country, the finely delineated structures showing the terrain of the sandhill and bush country, often with markings that reveal waterholes and ceremonial sites.

Anna primarily paints Yam Seed Dreaming, her works are colourful and intricate expressions of the songs and stories associated with her plant totem, the Bush Yam, and its seeds. The Bush Yam has been a staple food and water source for the Anmatyerre people for countless years, and the seeds that form and scatter from the plant are ground up to make flour for damper. During ceremony, it is Anna’s duty to pay homage to the yam seeds and give thanks for their abundance and regenerative qualities. By painting to the tempo of a ceremonial song, Anna expresses her connection to her plant totem in a permanent medium.

Anna Petyarre is renowned for her fine painting technique and for the care and pride she takes in her work, producing intricate and sensitive paintings that relate to the traditional culture of her Anmatyerre heritage. A versatile and creative artist Anna has changed her painting style radically several times over the last decade. Her work is becoming more collectible as she develops her craft and cements her reputation as one of Utopia’s rising talents.