EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS - PILATI OR NYAPARI

EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS
PILATI OR NYAPARI,  2006
95 x 167 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
REGION
Nyapari
 
PROVENANCE
Tjungu Palya, SA Cat No. TPEY06049
Private Collection, Vic
Art Leven, NSW
 
STORY
Eileen Stevens was born in the bush at Makiri and worked at Ernabella mission milking goats as a young woman. Shedid not begin painting until her late 80s and had a brief career of less than four years prior to her death in 2008.Stevens' art focused on Makiri and its Dreamings, as well as on Piltati, near her husband's birthplace, which wasclosely related to the Two Snake Men Dreaming (Wati Wanampi Kutjara Tjukurpa).
 
She gained immediate renown for her rapidly painted, bold, and highly colour charged large works on canvases.
 
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS