"There is a bravery and sweep in her gestures as a painter, and a sort of fearlessness." The Sydney Morning Herald
The internationally acclaimed Australian First Nations artist whose work has been the focus of numerous major museum exhibitions of late, including a retrospective at the Tate Modern, London; the National Gallery of Australia; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; the Fondacion Opale in Lens, Switzerland; and included in a landmark exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC.
Emily Kam Kngwarray began painting as part of the Utopia art movement, a community of Amatyerr and Alyawarr women translating ancient stories into a new visual language. From the outset however, Emily Kam Kngwarray, an Amatyerre elder possessing deep cultural knowledge, stood out, thanks to her fluid brushwork and innate sense of color, which she applied in shimmering, almost hypnotizing lines and marks across the canvas. Within a burst of eight short years until her death in 1996, Emily left behind some 3000 paintings for us to enjoy and revere. Yet through all the fame and intense flurry around her and her paintings, Emily never lost touch with her responsibility and role as traditional elder, or as simply one of the ladies within the community - the "Women of Utopia". Today, she is internationally celebrated, and credited with having inadvertently propelled the Utopian art phenomenon to international acclaim.
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Awelye, 1996 -
Body Paint, 1996
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Body Paint, 1996
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Body Paint Design, 1996
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Body Paint Design, 1996
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Untitled, 1996
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Untitled, 1996
