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Born c.1945, and an Anmatyerre speaker, her country is Atnangkere and
her Dreamings are as for Ada Bird: Mountain Devil Lizard, Bean, Emu, Pencil
Yam, Grass Seed and Small Brown Grass. She has four sisters who are also
artists: Ada Bird, Violet, Myrtle, and Kathleen.
She first gained recognition
as an artist working in the medium of Batik, exhibiting with the Utopia
Women in shows around Australia and abroad for a decade (1977-87) before
taking up the medium of canvas, painting her first work for CAAMA's Summer
Project exhibition.
In 1990 she traveled to Ireland,
London and India as a representative of the Utopia women, accompanying
the 'Utopia: A Picture Story' exhibition (Tandanya, Adelaide, The Royal
Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ireland, and Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne,
1991). In 1991 she had her first solo exhibition at Utopia Art in Sydney.
Her work is based on the body paint designs for her Dreamings, at first
showing clearly the designs painted across the women's breasts and shoulders
in the ceremony.
Since those early, highly
distinctive works, she has developed her paintings to higher levels of
abstraction, continually experimenting with line and colour. She says
she prefers the greater freedom and control she finds with the medium
of acrylic on canvas. Several of the works in her solo exhibition had
no dots at all, but bands of different colour whose optical effects have
evoked comparisons with the British artist Bridget Riley. Gloria's husband,
Ronnie Price Mpetyane, started painting in 1989, and does strong men's
paintings in dot style as well as neo-western landscapes in vivid colours.
They live at Mulga Bore (Akaye Soakage.) Utopia..
Gloria's work is features on
the cover of The Art of Utopia Michael Boulter) Book, and has been
included in major survey exhibitions including 'Flash Painting' at the
National Gallery of Australia in 1992, the 1991 Art Gallery of NSW touring
'Aboriginal Women's Exhibition', and solo exhibitions in 1991 at Australian
Galleries, New York and Utopia Art, Sydney, Desert Art Gallery Melbourne
Collections: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Allen Allen and
Hemsley, Museum of Victoria, Museums & Art Galleries of NT, Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney, Westpac, New York, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Michael
Hollow Collection, Holmes`a Court,etc. On her visits to Alice Springs
Gloria paints at "The Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery".
Collections:
Aboriginal Art
Museum, The Netherlands
Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Baker-McKenzie
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
Flinders University, South Australia
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Griffith University Collection
Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
Riddoch Art Gallery, S.A.
Supreme Court, Brisbane
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection
University of New South Wales
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, U.S.A.
Westpac, New York
James D. Wolfensohn Collection
Woollongong City Art Gallery
Woollongong University Collection
Macquarie Bank
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Singapore Art Museum
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
British Museum.
Individual Exhibitions:
2006 - Gloria Petyarre - a survey, 1996-2006, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney.
2004 - Gloria Petyarre - Recent Works, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne;
Power of the land, Utopai Art Sydney; Mythology and Reality - Contemporary
Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum
of Modern Art, Melbourne.
2002 - Gloria Petyarre - leaves & awelye, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney.
2000 - Paintings from Anungura, Utopia Art Sydney.
1999 - New Leaves, Utopia Art Sydney; Gloria Tamerre Petyarre: a survey
exhibition, touring- New England Regional Art Museum; and Manly Art Gallery.
1998 - The Anangkere Growth Paintings,Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Gloria
Tamerre Petyarre: a survey exhibition Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art
Gallery.; Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms, Galeri Petronis, Malaysia.
1997 - Instant Pictures, Utopia Art Sydney.
1995 - Gloria Petyarre: On the Line, Utopia Art Sydney.
1994 - Utopia Art Sydney.
1993 - Awelye, Utopia Art Sydney.
1991 - Australia Galleries, New York; Utopia Art Sydney, Australia.
Group Exhibitions:
2006 - Utopia, Galerie DAD, France; The second Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal
Art Exhibition, Shalom College, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
2005 - Aboriginal dreaming, European discovery, Australian Embassy, Paris,
France; Chefs d'Oeuvre - Maitres du Desert, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie,
France.
2004 - Twenty Indigenous Female Artists From Central Australia, Ann Snell
Gallery; Australian Aboriginal Art Collector's Exhibition, Flinders Lane
Gallery, Melbourne; The Art of Giving, Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne;
Power of the Land, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; Desert Paintings Showcase,
Australia's Outback Gallery, Sydney; In Season, Australia's Outback Gallery,
Sydney.
2003 - 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Tactility:
two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre, National Gallery
of Australia, Canberra.
2002 � Crossroads: the Millenium Portfolio of Australian
Aboriginal Prints, Singaport Art Museum, Singaport.
2001 - Museum, Utopia Art Sydney.; Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light,
Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Vienna; Desert Flowering:Aborignal
Art from Private Collections, Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand.; Seven Sisters
Petyarre, Brisbane City Gallery.; 8th International Works on Paper Fair,
Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios Australia, Sydney.; 2001, Utopia Art Sydney;
Arts d�Australie, Arts d'Australie �
St�phane Jacob / Equation-Transparence, Paris.
2000 - Encore, Utopia Art Sydney; The Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill
Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, ACT.; Melbourne ArtFair
2000, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne.; 5th National Indigenous Heritage
Art Award 2000 (Reconciliation Prize), Old Parliament House, Canberra;
Lines, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane.; Landscape, Utopia Art Sydney; Arts
d�Australie, Arts d'Australie �
St�phane Jacob / Espace Mezzo - Avenue des Champs-Elys�es,
Paris; Arts d�Australie, Arts d'Australie �
St�phane Jacob / Salon Pharmagora, Paris; Arts d�Australie,
Arts d'Australie � St�phane
Jacob / Pavillon Kleber, Paris.
1999 - Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms, Art Gallery of Western Australia.;
Ab Op, Utopia Art Sydney.; Petyarre Dreaming, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,
Melbourne.; Crossroads: Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal
Artists, Sherman Galleries, Sydney; Australie � Art,
Arts d'Australie � St�phane
Jacob / J.L. Amsler - Bastille, Paris.
1998 - 1998 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery,
Victoria.; Primary Colours: Blue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.; Women
Painters of the Desert, Fire-Works Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Queensland.;
nineteen ninety eight, Utopia Art Sydney; Propositions Australiennes,
Arts d'Australie � St�phane
Jacob / galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris.
1997 - Tapestries (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop) Australian
Galleries, Sydney.; Flagging the Republic, Grafton Regional Gallery; L�Art
des Aborig�nes d�Australie,
Arts d'Australie � St�phane
Jacob / Galerie de Stassart, Bruxelles; L�Art des
Aborig�nes d�Australie, Arts
d'Australie � St�phane Jacob
/ Espace Paul Riquet, B�ziers.
1996 - Nineteeninetyseven, Utopia Art Sydney; Aurora, Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology; Seoul Arts Centre, Korea.; Fifth Australian Contemporary
Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.; Paperwork, Utopia Art
Sydney; new paint new work, Utopia Art Sydney; Contemporary Abstract Aboriginal
Art, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.; Imagining the Real: an exhibition of
recent acquisitions from the Parliament House Collection, Canberra.; The
Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award,
Old Parliament House, Canberra; The Gesture, Utopia Art Sydney.; Utopia
Women, Utopia Art Sydney.; Hidden Treasures II: Art in corporate Collections,
SH Ervin Gallery.; Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries; New England
Regional Art Museum touring exhibition.; Contemporary Australian Abstraction,
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.
1995, A Celebration of the Art and Craft of Aboriginal Women, Aboriginal
and Tribal Art Centre, Sydney.
1994, Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery
of Victoria.
1992/3, New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from
Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia; 1993, Asia Pacific Triennial
of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery.
1991, The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and
Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Aboriginal Women's Exhibition,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1990, 'Utopia - A Picture Story,' an exhibition of 88 works on silk from
the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and
Scotland.; 1990, Tagari Lia: My Family, Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990
-from Australia, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK.
1989, Utopia Women, Coventry Gallery, Sydney; 1989, Art From Utopia, Austral
Gallery, St Louis, USA; 1989, Utopia Batik, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs;
1989, Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra.
1988, Time Before Time, Austral Gallery, St. Loius, USA; 1988, Contemporary
Aboriginal Art, Utopia Art Sydney.
1985, The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and
Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1984, The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
Awards:
1999 - Wynne Prize, Art Gallery
of New South Wales.
1993, Design for tapestry for Victorian Tapestry Workshop.
1993, Mural for Kansas City Zoo. |
