Kathleen Petyarre

Kathleen Petyarre ( b. 1940 in Atnangkere ) is a painter of the Aborigines, who lives in Adelaide near Utopia in Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory and partly in recent years.

Life

When she was a teenager, her parents verdingten in the livestock sector, in the kitchen and with jobs that have been paid daily wages. Kathleen Petyarre has seven sisters and belongs to the tribe of Alyawarre. She married shortly before the end of their teen -aged an old Aborigine, with whom she has a daughter. 1968 a school was established in Utopia. She was a teacher there and left her husband. At school, she worked for 20 years and from 1977 to 1988, she introduced her sister batiks in Utopia.

Work

After the period of batik design she started in 1988 to paint on canvas. It represents the dreamtime that her grandmother gave her, the Thorny Devil, Emu chasing women, bush seeds and dingoes dar. This Dreamtime figures stand for the Eastern Central Australian desert. Your pictures also include ceremony places and initiation rituals.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally and are in collections. She won numerous awards: